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We have a mature data warehouse and a few OLAP cubes built on top of it and now we are looking for the best front-end tools for our business users. The goal is to get some load off the IT and BI development team and provide the end-users with the tool for self service BI. We have been evaluating a couple of the solutions present on the market and Necto has caught our attentions because of some great innovative features.
We were thrilled with the capability to collaborate with other users utilizing social features such as the ability to subscribe to users, initiate context-based discussions and search for users and relevant content within the system.
Also, Necto will automatically identify exception in your data, such as drops in revenue, lack of inventory etc. and offer automated insights and potential root causes. A user can define a threshold to determine when a data point is considered an exception and an exclamation mark or other warning symbol will appear in cell when the data falls within this definition.
One of the features that is expected for tools of this kind, but is very basic in some of the products, is the ability to extract the data from multiple sources. It is available in Necto and it offers a wide range of data sources such as Microsoft SQL Server, OLAP cubes, Oracle, Teradata, Salesforce etc and add data from Excel spreadsheets and flat files as well.
Infographics are a great and unique feature. For me, they are a new, enhanced version of KPIs. Users can create their own infographics or choose from the existing.
Support for mobile devices is very good and it allows the same look and feel in all devices (desktop, laptop, tablet, mobile phone) which is great for the companies that have users who travel a lot and are often in the field. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
Not compatible with Macs and not supported for Blackberry.
Does not support multiple languages.
Needs more support for predictive and forecast analysis.
Reporting customization features are limited to some extent, which might be a problem for advanced users.
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Simple UI to display large data sets, ease of administration of workboards and Modelling functionality Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
Lack of HTML 5, poor documentation around available API's, UI a bit outdated, Modelling Function back end Tabular requirements are not great. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
Necto has powerful infographic support and it makes it easy to create and modify datasources on the fly. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
There are several technical bugs and limitations. The Necto formula feature is very useful, but with moderate sized data, the Necto server will time out with the most basic formulas. I would like to use exception highlighting for example, but I know it won't work with my data. I find the user interface at times unintuitive and there are bugs that hinder the usefulness of the product. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I like the flexibility of the product - its ability to handle multiple data sources and to combined them into a single view of "the world" that can build complex analytics & reporting. I also like the infographics capabilities. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
The online tools (youtube etc) aren't being kept up to date with the product releases. It doesn't give you confidence in the product when this kind of collateral is a couple of releases behind. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Panorama Necto is a very powerful tool. What we like most about this product, is the ease of use of it, as users familiarize themselves with it very quickly. The ability to create and share workboards with colleagues is also a very good feature. Formulae and exceptions are also very powerful features that Panorama Necto has. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
There's not much you can dislike about this product - Panorama Necto is a very good product to use Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
Necto is faster than Microsoft Excel when querying Microsoft Analysis Services cubes! Plus connection is live on actual SSAS db (data not cached locally nor re-transformed). Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
It's not user friendly and many feature are counter-intuitive. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
Is very fast in data retrieving and there are very interesting options in workboards building. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
There are some passages very hard for an end-user in building advanced customized views. The formula section should be improved and most user-friendly. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The info-graphics are probably one of the more powerful pieces of the tool. I also like that it fits well into our overall solution. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
The Flash based UI. I haven't been able to see the new HTML one yet. We've also had a lot of issues with controls working correctly within the workboards as well as some workboard issues. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

1. Panorama Necto is very Business-oriented BI system, comparing with other Data Discovery tools like Tableau and Qlik. Necto has inherited legacy of OLAP, in both functions of product itself and consulting resources of subject-matter experts, and has high capability to build BI system to help problem solving and management in ordinary businesses.
2. Panorama Necto can create Necto model with ease out of raw data and transactions and it provides you with excellent adaptability against new challenging tasks.
3. It can add splendid visual appearance on the Dashboard with infographics(IGs). Panorama is a pioneer to apply IG representation for BI system. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
Though it can connect any types of data source it needs SQL server for analysis engine and it might be cons for the users of open-source DB like PostgreSQL or MySQL. For client environment It depends on Flash technology although it is completely Web-based. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

drag and drop features, exception are very easy to use. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
formatting is a pain in the ass, the new version is MUCH better. it would be nice if we could rename fields. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.