Modern Business Intelligence tool making collaboration and self service easy
March 31, 2015

Modern Business Intelligence tool making collaboration and self service easy

Milos Milenkovic | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User

Software Version

15

Overall Satisfaction with Panorama Necto

Our company has a data warehouse and a few OLAP cubes built on top of it. It was first built three years ago and the new features are added to it based on the end user requirements. Now we are looking for the best front-end tools for our business users. The goal is to get the load off the IT team and provide the business users with the tool for self service BI. We have been evaluating a couple of the solutions present on the market and found Necto very innovative with useful features.
  • Ability to collaborate with other users by sharing content, starting discussions, subscribing to users, searching for the relevant content.
  • Mobile application is available for iOS, Android and Windows RT and users have the same experience on any device. This is great for the executives who travel a lot and are often in the meetings.
  • Great visualization capabilities, especially infographics which represent a unique way to easily present the trends in data.
  • Needs more support for predictive and forecast analysis.
  • Needs more data transformation support
  • Does not support multiple languages.
Tableau, QlikView, Power BI, Klipfolio, Zoho Reports...
It offers some great inovative features and capabilites, but we are slightly concerned by the fact that it's not one of the most popular tools and the community is not that big.
It's reach visualization capability and ability to create all kinds of charts makes it a great front-end reporting and analysis tool. Panorama Necto is convenient for self-service and collaboration between colleagues. Reporting customization features are limited to some extent, which might be a problem for advanced users. Also, scheduling reports and sending them as an email attachment is not simple.

Panorama Necto Feature Ratings

Pixel Perfect reports
9
Customizable dashboards
10
Report Formatting Templates
8
Drill-down analysis
9
Formatting capabilities
8
Report sharing and collaboration
10
Publish to Web
10
Publish to PDF
9
Report Versioning
5
Report Delivery Scheduling
6
Pre-built visualization formats (heatmaps, scatter plots etc.)
9
Location Analytics / Geographic Visualization
8
Predictive Analytics
5
Multi-User Support (named login)
9
Role-Based Security Model
9
Multiple Access Permission Levels (Create, Read, Delete)
9
Responsive Design for Web Access
9
Mobile Application
9
Dashboard / Report / Visualization Interactivity on Mobile
9

Using Panorama Necto

3 - Only business intelligence developers at this moment, but we are planning to expand the use and train business users to start using it.
3 - Business intelligence developers with IT background. We are still in the evaluation stage.
  • Self service BI
  • Collaboration and social engagement
  • Visualisation and dashboard creation
  • Set up automatic identification of exceptions in the data
  • Collaboration, subscribing to users, initiating context-based discussions

Evaluating Panorama Necto and Competitors

Panorama Necto Implementation

Everything went smoothly, we didn't have any unexpected issues.
Change management was a small part of the implementation and was well-handled

Panorama Necto Support

I was able to get answers to all my questions.
ProsCons
Quick Resolution
Good followup
Knowledgeable team
Problems get solved
Kept well informed
No escalation required
Immediate help available
Support understands my problem
Support cares about my success
Quick Initial Response
None

Using Panorama Necto

It provides all the features that are required and some that are not the basic requirements, but they represent a great additional capabilities, not available within the similar products.
ProsCons
Like to use
Relatively simple
Easy to use
Technical support not required
Well integrated
Consistent
Quick to learn
Convenient
Feel confident using
None
Yes - It works great and the experience is the same as in the desktop or laptop computer.