Logi Info (Logi Analytics Platform) is a mixed bag, so go in with eyes open about what type of product it actually is
Updated May 16, 2025

Logi Info (Logi Analytics Platform) is a mixed bag, so go in with eyes open about what type of product it actually is

David Williams | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 3 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User

Overall Satisfaction with Logi Info

Our company uses Logi Info (Logi Analytics Platform) to provide dashboards, reports, embedded visualisations, and help customers make their own self-service reporting. We primarily use two products in the Logi Analytics suite, Logi Info and Logi Composer. Logi Info is a web-app builder with XML-based config files and a series of visualisation widgets. We embed these Logi Info items into our core application, primarily with iframes. Logi Composer is a more traditional BI style app where you make dashboards, reports, schedule reports, etc. - in this case, it is a separate portal/site for our customers to use.

Pros

  • Fast visualisation
  • Scheduled reporting
  • Putting user-specific custom variables into connection strings or queries to have individual reports tailor to many specific circumstances

Cons

  • Logi Info (Logi Analytics Platform) is NOT a BI tool, and there's a big misapprehension in many places that it is. Instead, it is a tool for making IIS-based web applications that happens to provide a series of BI-related widgets. It's not user-friendly, not intuitive, not awesome, and still needs a web developer to make CSS, JavaScript, and all kinds of things.
  • Logi Composer offers multiple 'accounts' to partition customer accounts and customer-created reports, BUT all the reports, visuals, data sources, and other items we make are account-bound too. So if we have a standard library of reports we have to either duplicate them for every account (and keep them updated), or we have to have all customers in one account and maintain permissions to hide their reports from each other.
  • Logi Analytics recently acquired another company / BI tool but don't package it as part of Logi Symphony - instead they want an extra fee if you're interested in checking it out.
  • While Logi Composer allows you to create custom visualisations, the tutorials online are out of date and still refer to ZoomData, the company Logi acquired which became Logi Composer.
  • Logi Info (Logi Analytics Platform) helped the company embed visualisations into a core app, separating that functionality from the core dev team to a specialised team of BI people (who had to then learn/do front-end web dev to make Logi Info look ok)
  • Logi Composer instead was a much better experience, allowing us to provide a full-featured customer-facing BI portal where users can rapidly create and schedule reports and dashboards
It's not visual, it's not intuitive, and it's not user-friendly. Instead, you construct IIS web apps using an XML-based config language that embeds BI components. You still need to use JavaScript and CSS for major functionality and styling. There is an editor, Logi Studio, which gives you a simple editor and some help on the Logi Info components, but it's far from an app builder.
To be honest, Logi Info (Logi Analytics Platform) is the weakest of all these products BUT it can offer value if you have a team of web developers who want to add BI widgets, vs. having a BI team who are focused on making great visualisations. Our company made the decision to procure Logi Info prior to my arrival. Two factors influencing that purchase decision were (a) the company executive believing Logi Info (Logi Analytics Platform) was a BI tool, and (b) Logi Info offering a competitive "all you can eat" license with unlimited users, web apps, and server installations - that latter part is something I agree is good.

Do you think Logi Info delivers good value for the price?

No

Are you happy with Logi Info's feature set?

No

Did Logi Info live up to sales and marketing promises?

I wasn't involved with the selection/purchase process

Did implementation of Logi Info go as expected?

No

Would you buy Logi Info again?

No

Logi Composer is the best of the product range that Logi Analytics offers; Logi Info is, in my mind, a terrible experience and should be discontinued. Logi Info is not a BI tool and many CEOs and product managers believe it is. Instead, it is a tool for web developers to create IIS apps with a library of BI-type components, and with everything else having to be hand-coded in JavaScript and CSS. Maybe this was cool back in the early 2000s when Logi Info came about, but today I'd recommend using Visual Studio, C#, .NET, and finding a NuGet package for your visualisations if you wanted to go the route of making your own web app. This said, where it is suited is if you have a burning desire to make a stand-alone IIS-based web application and you don't need or want to leverage any existing skills in .NET or PHP or other frameworks/languages. Instead, you want to use the Logi Info XML-based BI widgets and you're happy to make something quick without needing it to look really awesome.

Logi Info Feature Ratings

BI Platform ()
Not Rated
Supported Data Sources ()
Not Rated
2.0
Customizable dashboards
3
Report Formatting Templates
1
2.0
Drill-down analysis
2
Formatting capabilities
3
Report sharing and collaboration
1
2.5
Publish to PDF
4
Report Delivery Scheduling
1
3.5
Pre-built visualization formats (heatmaps, scatter plots etc.)
5
Location Analytics / Geographic Visualization
2
2.0
Multi-User Support (named login)
2
Role-Based Security Model
2
Multiple Access Permission Levels (Create, Read, Delete)
2
Report-Level Access Control
2
2.0
Responsive Design for Web Access
2
Dashboard / Report / Visualization Interactivity on Mobile
2
2.0
iFrames
2
Themeable User Interface (UI)
2

Using Logi Info

100 - Business Intelligence developers are the primary users of Logi Info per se, but as it provides embedded analytics/reports/dashboards, etc., it is also used indirectly by many others in our organisation as the consumers of its output.
5 - The people who support Logi Info internally are business intelligence developers, but in my view, the product is not suited for BI experts. In a way, it's not even suited for web developers, though that is a better audience given it requires a lot of JavaScript to do the things you want to do.
  • Embedded business intelligence analytics
  • Reports
  • Dashboards
Logi Info is a very outdated, archaic product that tries to build .NET / Java web apps using an obscure XML-based markup language to implement BI widgets, with a lot of extra CSS/JavaScript needed on your own to make it do the best things.

There are many other better tools. It is not a BI tool, and as a web development tool it's not great either. I'd recommend getting some good third-party .NET BI library if you want your web devs to make the reports, otherwise use a proper BI tool like Power BI or Tableau, or even Logi Composer (formerly ZoomData before Logi acquired it.)

Using Logi Info

ProsCons
None
Do not like to use
Unnecessarily complex
Difficult to use
Requires technical support
Not well integrated
Slow to learn
Cumbersome
Lots to learn
  • It offers pre-built BI components that you can use
  • Styling
  • Adding code
  • Debugging

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