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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    Altair SmartSight

    Score8.4 out of 10
    N/AAltair SmartSight (formerly Carriots Analytics) is a cloud data analytics platform for embedded, Big Data, and IoT applications. It provides secure and rapid free-form data visualization and exploration, scalable throughout the enterprise in real time.N/A

    Excel4apps

    Score8.6 out of 10
    N/AExcel4apps is a business intelligence software offering from Excel4apps.N/A
    Pricing
    Altair SmartSightExcel4apps
    Editions & Modules
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    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    Altair SmartSightExcel4apps
    Free Trial
    YesNo
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
    Additional Details
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    Community Pulse
    Altair SmartSightExcel4apps
    Considered Both Products
    Altair Engineering, Inc.
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    Excel4apps
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    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
    80%
    Would buy again
    4 Answers
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    Delivers good value for the price
    100%
    Delivers good value for the price
    5 Answers
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    Happy with the feature set
    100%
    Happy with the feature set
    5 Answers
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    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
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    Implementation went as expected
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    Features
    Altair SmartSightExcel4apps
    BI Standard Reporting
    Comparison of BI Standard Reporting features of Altair SmartSight and Excel4apps
    Feature
    Altair SmartSight
    -
    Ratings
    Excel4apps
    6.3
    4 Ratings
    26% below category average
    Pixel Perfect reports00 Ratings5.43 Ratings
    Customizable dashboards00 Ratings6.13 Ratings
    Report Formatting Templates00 Ratings7.44 Ratings
    Ad-hoc Reporting
    Comparison of Ad-hoc Reporting features of Altair SmartSight and Excel4apps
    Feature
    Altair SmartSight
    -
    Ratings
    Excel4apps
    7.6
    4 Ratings
    5% below category average
    Drill-down analysis00 Ratings7.54 Ratings
    Formatting capabilities00 Ratings9.24 Ratings
    Integration with R or other statistical packages00 Ratings6.52 Ratings
    Report sharing and collaboration00 Ratings7.14 Ratings
    Report Output and Scheduling
    Comparison of Report Output and Scheduling features of Altair SmartSight and Excel4apps
    Feature
    Altair SmartSight
    -
    Ratings
    Excel4apps
    6.4
    3 Ratings
    25% below category average
    Publish to Web00 Ratings6.73 Ratings
    Publish to PDF00 Ratings8.22 Ratings
    Report Versioning00 Ratings5.83 Ratings
    Report Delivery Scheduling00 Ratings6.23 Ratings
    Delivery to Remote Servers00 Ratings5.02 Ratings
    Data Discovery and Visualization
    Comparison of Data Discovery and Visualization features of Altair SmartSight and Excel4apps
    Feature
    Altair SmartSight
    -
    Ratings
    Excel4apps
    6.7
    2 Ratings
    18% below category average
    Pre-built visualization formats (heatmaps, scatter plots etc.)00 Ratings7.02 Ratings
    Location Analytics / Geographic Visualization00 Ratings7.02 Ratings
    Predictive Analytics00 Ratings6.02 Ratings
    Access Control and Security
    Comparison of Access Control and Security features of Altair SmartSight and Excel4apps
    Feature
    Altair SmartSight
    -
    Ratings
    Excel4apps
    8.1
    3 Ratings
    5% below category average
    Multi-User Support (named login)00 Ratings9.03 Ratings
    Role-Based Security Model00 Ratings9.02 Ratings
    Multiple Access Permission Levels (Create, Read, Delete)00 Ratings7.23 Ratings
    Single Sign-On (SSO)00 Ratings7.22 Ratings
    Mobile Capabilities
    Comparison of Mobile Capabilities features of Altair SmartSight and Excel4apps
    Feature
    Altair SmartSight
    -
    Ratings
    Excel4apps
    7.8
    1 Ratings
    1% above category average
    Responsive Design for Web Access00 Ratings9.01 Ratings
    Mobile Application00 Ratings8.01 Ratings
    Dashboard / Report / Visualization Interactivity on Mobile00 Ratings6.01 Ratings
    Application Program Interfaces (APIs) / Embedding
    Comparison of Application Program Interfaces (APIs) / Embedding features of Altair SmartSight and Excel4apps
    Feature
    Altair SmartSight
    -
    Ratings
    Excel4apps
    3.4
    2 Ratings
    78% below category average
    REST API00 Ratings1.01 Ratings
    Javascript API00 Ratings5.72 Ratings
    iFrames00 Ratings1.01 Ratings
    Java API00 Ratings5.92 Ratings
    Themeable User Interface (UI)00 Ratings2.01 Ratings
    Customizable Platform (Open Source)00 Ratings5.01 Ratings
    Best Alternatives
    Altair SmartSightExcel4apps
    Small Businesses
    Cyfe
    Score4 out of 10
    Cyfe
    Score4 out of 10
    Medium-sized Companies
    Qlik Cloud Analytics (Qlik Sense)
    Score8.2 out of 10
    Qlik Cloud Analytics (Qlik Sense)
    Score8.2 out of 10
    Enterprises
    Jaspersoft Community Edition
    Score7 out of 10
    Jaspersoft Community Edition
    Score7 out of 10
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    User Ratings
    Altair SmartSightExcel4apps
    Likelihood to Recommend
    8.4
    (5 ratings)
    9.0
    (4 ratings)
    Usability
    8.3
    (5 ratings)
    8.2
    (3 ratings)
    Support Rating
    8.7
    (5 ratings)
    6.9
    (3 ratings)
    Data Sharing and Collaboration
    -
    (0 ratings)
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    Data Sources
    -
    (0 ratings)
    9.0
    (1 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    Altair SmartSightExcel4apps
    Likelihood to Recommend
    Altair Engineering, Inc.
    As per my knowledge and Altair Product experience, It is really a good product that comes with multiple features like IoT, BigData, dashboards, and other things. I personally really enjoyed using the services provided by Altair. It is well suited for the organizations who don't spend much time setting up their own platform, maintenance, and much more because Altair not only provides the platform but they will care about your products with good customer support and maintenance. I only found a bit low in the case of machine learning and AI products because I have checked different products that provide these services with good accuracy.
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    Excel4apps
    We have to calculate most all Lab / Pilot / Proposals sizing and results. The automated calculations in [Excel4apps] is awesome, as once you are familiar with them, it is easy to quickly implement them when needed.
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    Pros
    Altair Engineering, Inc.
    • The global navigation bar with links to the library for easy access and management within the platform.
    • Simplified task viewer where we can find the profile, performance, help, resources and a link also to manage your account.
    • System administrators can define profiles for task execution.
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    Excel4apps
    • Easy to install and maintain. After the initial installation, there is little involvement by the technical administrators.
    • Cloning production to a test environment does not require any additional setups unlike Oracle EBS which does.
    • Loading data and reporting on this data is handled via EXCEL spreadsheets which is the "language" of our financial users.
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    Cons
    Altair Engineering, Inc.
    • Integration with other systems could be better.
    • Ability to handle large amount of data.
    • Expertise services might be better.
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    Excel4apps
    • It is possible but difficult to retrieve data or set criteria from different module into a single report or retrieve. If it is more user friendly instead of having to create a complex formula to retrieve the data, this function will be utilized more often.
    • It will be nice to have visual (graphs, etc.) report template available
    • It is helpful if we can retrieve data for a range of date, instead of just YTD, PTD etc. and multi-year data all at once for comparison too.
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    Usability
    Altair Engineering, Inc.
    Very user-friendly UI and visual representation is also good for the price offered. Good tool but lacks some advanced and AI-based insights. It has an edge over other tools for the price of this tool. It has some great potential and i would consider this in my top 5 when considering tools of this domain
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    Excel4apps
    I am not a power user of Excel. So I find Exel4apps a friendlier version of the things that I could do on Excel and making it easier with a magic wand.
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    Support Rating
    Altair Engineering, Inc.
    I only had one problem with the software, and the support system response was very quick.
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    Excel4apps
    I have not needed support yet
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    Alternatives Considered
    Altair Engineering, Inc.
    Altair smart sight stacks up against all the products mentioned above because it comes with a wide variety of applications and services like Big Data, IoT services, Embedded systems, cloud-based service, data visualization, Machine learning, dashboarding, and much more. I have used the other products like Logi Composer, Tableau CRM, and PowerBI but they only handle the specific use cases. So Because of that Altair Smartsight really provide a good and wide range of solution.
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    Excel4apps
    Excel4apps is more user friendly and can retrieve data much easier and in a nicer format than Jaspersoft. Qlik Sense is useful and have more visual reporting and dashboard. However, it is usually used for higher level of analyses and review. Yardi is used for specific purpose, which is different than Excel4apps. Excel4apps can pull all the financial data from Oracle, including billing and collections.
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    Return on Investment
    Altair Engineering, Inc.
    • The workflow interface consists of the workflow canvas where we do our actual pipeline and workflow execution log, display information and each process.
    • You can use it to create a workflow and the available execution profiles in which to run them.
    • We currently have one session running for each workflow.
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    Excel4apps
    • Increase team transparency
    • Increased reporting
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