Altair SmartSight vs. Excel4apps

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
Altair SmartSight
Score 8.4 out of 10
N/A
Altair 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
Score 8.0 out of 10
N/A
Excel4apps 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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Features
Altair SmartSightExcel4apps
BI Standard Reporting
Comparison of BI Standard Reporting features of Product A and Product B
Altair SmartSight
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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 Product A and Product B
Altair SmartSight
-
Ratings
Excel4apps
7.6
4 Ratings
6% 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 Product A and Product B
Altair SmartSight
-
Ratings
Excel4apps
6.4
3 Ratings
26% 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 Product A and Product B
Altair SmartSight
-
Ratings
Excel4apps
6.7
2 Ratings
19% 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 Product A and Product B
Altair SmartSight
-
Ratings
Excel4apps
8.1
3 Ratings
6% 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 Product A and Product B
Altair SmartSight
-
Ratings
Excel4apps
7.8
1 Ratings
2% below 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 Product A and Product B
Altair SmartSight
-
Ratings
Excel4apps
3.4
2 Ratings
80% 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
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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)
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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