Smart data discovery & visualization
4.3/5 (39 reviews)Panorama Necto is a self-service smart business intelligence software which leverages an engine that automatically simplifies the business users’ exploration and analysis. This results in better and faster answers, improving both productivity and decisions. Panorama Necto is powered by a unified and governed platform that highlights data visualization and utilizes its unique data-oriented collaboration.
Panorama Necto is suggestive, automatically suggesting to business users where insights can be found, while presenting that information in visual, clearly understandable terms. Necto’s recommendation engine tracks, analyzes and creates links between data, user profiles, user interests and other user behaviors resulting in better connections to all users. Suggestions to relevant data, trends and relevant insights are a continuous process enabling the ultimate in collaboration with the right people.
Panorama Necto is fully scalable for an enterprise-wide adoption. By deploying a unified BI solution, data will never exist in silos, making it easy to control and manage for IT, providing a single version of truth. Utilizing the concept of workboards (dynamic and rich dashboards), Necto enables users to analyze, visualize, track performance, discover hidden insights and collaborate with colleagues – all within a single browser window, for any user type.
Pros
Connects to any data (most backend packages as per industry standards)
Understands the nature of data and the metadata really well. Treats the data on the fly and creates smart visualizations.
Creates basic data arrangements easily without waiting for the users to instruct. For an example, given a date field it creates a calendar hierarchy by default.
Comes with lot of option to modify and build the smart infographic. Uses innovative pictures and charts to create the dashboards
Provides a centrally hosted collaborative platform to share your work to a wider audience but only of your choice. The role based access is really amazing
It has smart computing abilities to deliver some of the complex analytical requirements such as what-if analysis, pinpointing the actual issues and side by side comparison of business factors.
Helps you identify why you are succeeding and where you should shift your focus to.
The maps are amazing and they just don’t act as control points rather you can populate various measures on them making it really efficient to understand the business in geographical info graph
All in all a really great tool to work on and absolute value for money.
Cons
Ability to handle bigdata and advance data modelling capbilities.
The primary criteria for selecting BI tool is that it should be versatile in all aspects. When we started reviewing BI Tools, we liked following things in Panorama Necto.
Panorama Software has added
-social features
-exception tracking
-automated insights
Along with this panorama Necto
is available both as a client server and online service
offers support through email, phone and tutorials
offers Mobile Intelligence technology and supports Android and iOS devices
is one of the few companies out there offering Business Intelligence 3.0
allows users to connect to any data source and model it via in-memory technology
Pros
Social Features
Necto's supports ability to subscribe to users via social features. Users can initiate context-based discussions, and search for users and relevant content within the system. it maintains and provides its own security mechanism but integrates with Active Directory (AD), third-party authentication tools, and in-house custom security mechanisms.
Subscribing to users.
Necto gives Twitter like feeling. We can subscribe to users in Necto. Subscribing to one of our colleagues lets us follow all the changes made to his or her workboard. Because you can view users' shared workboards, you can concentrate on those that are active. Subscribing is easy. You just need to click a person in the social bar, then click the Subscribe icon. A second click will unsubscribe you.
Users can start context-based discussions. include context and annotations, which are saved as part of the workboard to add more depth and foster knowledge sharing.
Cons
Shortcomings
As Panorama Necto works heavily with Microsoft, its platform is not compatible with Macs. Also, its functionality is not supported for Blackberry devices. Also, it does not support multiple languages, as well as profit and predictive analysis features.
Note that Panorama does not offer in-person training or online chat support.
Pros
I have been evaluating tools within our organization to be suggested to different clients which are less technical and more business user oriented for fast first hand analytics. I came across one such tool with the name Necto.
I was thrilled with the capabilities of astonishingly ready to build and simplified, modern and in-cell infographics that can be used by just right clicking on the attributes. Another feature that I think stood out in this tool is of it being suggestive which leads to automated analysis and recommendations. I also observed that it uses crowdsourcing to recommend workboards. This tool also gives a feature of it being collaborative in decision making experience wherein one can directly connect with the associates within the enterprise from within the tool.
Cons
Performance in case of huge datasets needs to be further analyzed.
A good application for basic analysts but more advanced features needs to be released by the vendor for power users in coming versions.
Cost of implementing multiple analytical tools for different sect of users should be considered.
Technical documentaion needs to be evolved with time.
We are using this tool for self service data discovery for quite some time.
It also supports loads of info graphics which enrich dashboard’s visual appeal.
The tool is also very easy to use, we got on premise training from Panorama, within days we were novice enough to play with the tool.
The customer service is very responsive, they answers our queries.
I saw lot of people complaining about lack of community forum, but they do have a forum which is quite active.
Pros
The tool is very easy to use, with click you can import data and create the visualizations.
The things like I most it supports variety of charts, I was quite bored with my previous BI tool which mostly support bar, line an pie chart. I can now create more meaningful charts radar, donought, pareoto, scatter, range, point, boxplot etc.
Good geo analytics support, readily integrate with maps and plots the charts.
Good in memory performance, return results with clicks.
Relatively good performance
Cons
More community support
Publishing and scheduling is bit complicated
The dashboard also looks bit complicated and loaded with loads with lots of gadgets at first look
No support for Linux or commodity hardware.
Limited support for big data analytics
Panorama Software has added social features, exception tracking, and automated insights to its self-service BI solution.
Social Features
Necto's supports ability to subscribe to users via social features. Users can initiate context-based discussions, and search for users and relevant content within the system. it maintains and provides its own security mechanism but integrates with Active Directory (AD), third-party authentication tools, and in-house custom security mechanisms.
Subscribing to users.
Necto gives Twitter like feeling. We can subscribe to users in Necto. Subscribing to one of our colleagues lets us follow all the changes made to his or her workboard. Because you can view users' shared workboards, you can concentrate on those that are active. Subscribing is easy. You just need to click a person in the social bar, then click the Subscribe icon. A second click will unsubscribe you.
Users can start context-based discussions. include context and annotations, which are saved as part of the workboard to add more depth and foster knowledge sharing.
Pros
allows users to connect to any data source and model it via in-memory technology
available both as a client server and online service
offers support through email, phone and tutorials
Cons
Following are the shortcomings.
As Panorama Necto works heavily with Microsoft, its platform is not compatible with Macs. Also, its functionality is not supported for Blackberry devices. Also, it does not support multiple languages, as well as profit and predictive analysis features.
Note that Panorama does not offer in-person training or online chat support.
Contact Panorama for detailed pricing information.
Below are some frequently asked questions for Panorama Necto.
Panorama Necto offers the following pricing plans:
Pricing model: One Time License, Subscription
Free Trial: Available
Contact Panorama for detailed pricing information.
Panorama Necto offers the following features:
Panorama Necto has the following typical customers:
Large Enterprises, Mid Size Business, Small Business
Panorama Necto supports the following languages:
English
Panorama Necto has the following pricing plans:
One Time License, Subscription
We do not have any information about what devices Panorama Necto supports
Panorama Necto integrates with the following applications:
Dynamics 365, Microsoft Azure, Microsoft Dynamics GP, Microsoft Dynamics NAV in the Cloud, Microsoft Dynamics SL, Microsoft Excel, Microsoft Visual Studio Online, Salesforce Sales Cloud
Panorama Necto offers the following support options:
FAQs, Forum, Knowledge Base, Online Support, Phone Support, Video Tutorials
I highly recommend this tool for any business that wishes for quicker and qualitative analysis of their data. This tool is hosted over web and can connect to any industry standard backend packages that we know. It is really intelligent enough to manage the metadata and hence giving a wider and more intuitive options to use the data for creating charts and graphs.
You can do everything that you wish through simply drag and drop and few clicks. This makes a user to understand the data really quick and in a more efficient manner. Everything is quick, easy and intuitive to develop, be it a simple bar graph that gives category wise measures or a trend analysis of historical data or a gauge to understand the thresholds, anything.
The best part is that it a very simple mechanism to share the analysis and invite others to contribute to it. A collaborative BI platform in real sense.
Its ability to treat and visualize the data is simply amazing and there might be countable such options available currently apart from Necto. Slicing and dicing of data is really quick. It also provides customizable text area to place the interesting insights. I have worked on several tools before but Necto is a real game changer. It would be amazing to see what new features it evolves with. Again a highly recommended tool for holistic and self-service BI.