Phocas Business Intelligence Reviews

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August 08, 2016

Phocas Business Intelligence Review: "Phocas - A great tool for small businesses"

Olivia Gonsalves

HR Generalist

WHCI PLUMBING SUPPLY COWarehousing, 51-200 employees

Score 7 out of 10

Vetted Review

Verified User

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Phocas is currently being used across the organization. We're able to track our sales numbers, warehouse productivity numbers as well as purchasing inventory on Phocas.

Pros and Cons

Detailed tracking of sales numbers
Timely updates - data refreshed every day
Ability to work with our ERP system and extract data

Ability to build reports
Could be more user friendly

Phocas is well suited to keep track of sales numbers for small businesses like ours. It's not that well suited in writing queries, and there is some level of initial difficulty in figuring how to use the system.

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BI Standard Reporting

Customizable dashboards (1)

Report Formatting Templates (1)

Ad-hoc Reporting

Drill-down analysis (1)

Formatting capabilities (1)

Report sharing and collaboration (1)

Report Output and Scheduling

Publish to PDF (1)

Report Versioning (1)

Report Delivery Scheduling (1)

Data Discovery and Visualization

Pre-built visualization formats (heatmaps, scatter plots etc.) (1)

Location Analytics / Geographic Visualization (1)

Predictive Analytics (1)

Access Control and Security

Multi-User Support (named login) (1)

Role-Based Security Model (1)

Multiple Access Permission Levels (Create, Read, Delete) (1)

Mobile Capabilities

Responsive Design for Web Access (1)

Dashboard / Report / Visualization Interactivity on Mobile (1)

About Phocas Business Intelligence

Phocas helps users discover data and provides results in real time. It is designed for non-technical users and delivers a simple yet powerful analytical capability that quickly turns data into a chart, graph or map. It brings up data on local, regional or global sales, inventory, forecasts, prices, profit margins, budgets and more.

Phocas, based in the United Kingdom, is a business intelligence firm with offices in the UK, the United States, and Australia. The vendor says that by offering an innovative data discovery solution, it has maintained a 97 percent customer retention rate.

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Phocas Business Intelligence Features

BI Platform Features

Administration via Windows App

Administration via MacOS App

Administration via Web Interface

Live Connection to External Data

Snapshot of External Data

In-memory data model

OLAP (Pre-processed cube representation)

ROLAP (SQL-layer querying)

Multi-Data Source Reporting (Blending)

Data warehouse / dictionary layer

ETL Capability

ETL Scheduler

Supported Data Sources Features

MS Excel Workbooks

Text Files (CSV, etc)

Oracle

MS SQL Server

IBM DB2

Postgres

MySQL

ODBC

Cloudera Hadoop

Hortonworks Hadoop

EMC Greenplum

IBM Netezza

HP Vertica

ParAccel

SAP Hana

Teradata

Sage 500

Salesforce

SAP

Google Analytics

BI Standard Reporting Features

Pixel Perfect reports

Customizable dashboards

Report Formatting Templates

Ad-hoc Reporting Features

Drill-down analysis

Formatting capabilities

Predictive modeling

Integration with R or other statistical packages

Report sharing and collaboration

Report Output and Scheduling Features

Publish to Web

Publish to PDF

Output Raw Supporting Data

Report Versioning

Report Delivery Scheduling

Delivery to Remote Servers

Data Discovery and Visualization Features

Pre-built visualization formats (heatmaps, scatter plots etc.)

Location Analytics / Geographic Visualization

Predictive Analytics

Support for Machine Learning models

Pattern Recognition and Data Mining

Integration with R or other statistical packages

Access Control and Security Features

Multi-User Support (named login)

Role-Based Security Model

Multiple Access Permission Levels (Create, Read, Delete)

Report-Level Access Control

Table-Level Access Control (BI-layer)

Field-Level Access Control (BI-layer)

Single Sign-On (SSO)

Mobile Capabilities Features

Responsive Design for Web Access

Dedicated iOS Application

Dedicated Android Application

Dashboard / Report / Visualization Interactivity on Mobile

Application Program Interfaces (APIs) / Embedding Features

REST API

Javascript API

iFrames

Java API

Themeable User Interface (UI)

Customizable Platform (Open Source)

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Phocas Business Intelligence Screenshots

Phocas Business Intelligence Integrations

NetSuite, MS Dynamics AX, MS Dynamics NAV, MS Dynamics GP, Epicor Eclipse, Infor SX.e, Epicor P21, Pronto, SAP B1, SAP, Sage, MAM, Infor SHIMS, Infor FACTS, MIS, JD Edwards, Oracle, Infor A+, Infor BAAN, Lakeview, Mincron, Ximple, Magnatron

Phocas Business Intelligence Competitors

Yellowfin, Tableau Desktop, QlikView

Pricing

Free Trial Available?Yes

Free or Freemium Version Available?No

Premium Consulting/Integration Services Available?Yes

Entry-level set up fee?No

Phocas has built its business model on exceeding customer expectations. We’ve operated on a subscription basis from the start and in the words of Phocas Group chairman and co-founder Paul Magee: ‘That puts the onus on us to perform’. And we like that. In fact, our whole company ecosystem is built around that ‘light bulb moment’ when customers achieve a breakthrough by seeing their business through fresh eyes.

Phocas Business Intelligence Support Options

	Free Version	Paid Version
Phone
Live Chat
Email
Forum/Community
FAQ/Knowledgebase
Social Media
Video Tutorials / Webinar

Phocas Business Intelligence Technical Details

Deployment Types:	On-premise, SaaS
Operating Systems:	Windows, Linux, Mac
Mobile Application:	Apple iOS, Android, Windows Phone, Blackberry, Mobile Web, 2673049216
Supported Countries:	United States, Canada, Europe, Australia, New Zealand, and Asia.