Panorama is a fully web based self service BI Solution with Powerful infographics. Various chart components are available for the dashboards. The look and feel is extremely catchy. I like the flip between one dashboard to another. Necto has the ability to subscribe to users through social features and thus follow the user's shared workboard.

It's exception tracking capability and notification to the users is one of the unique features. Necto can be seamlessly integrated with Microsoft Office and Sharepoint which is a great feature.

Very powerful collaborative tool offering context based discussion/likes/dislikes and other interactive features to ensure effective data analysis.

Panorama Necto has a group of highly experienced and knowledgeable resources to support any issue.

It is an awesome tool. It has really cool features such as being able to find relevant people when commenting on a data element. This helps in searching for the right people to solve any problems with your work, add any relevant people onto the discussion board, and start a discussion with them. This enables you to find more people for addressing issues, which in turn means you can get quick resolutions for problems. It stores the discussion histories from its users, similar to how Skype stores its chat history. This enables Necto to collect all answers in one place.

Other features I like are -

1. Recommendation engine
2. Mobile rich info-graphics
3. Good collaborative capability with discussion/likes/dislikes and other interactive features ensure effective data analysis
4. Capability to connect to multiple sources
5. Very user interactive

Interactive and eye-catchy graphs and widgets.

Real time conditional notifications on related KPI's to the users.

95% Covering the requirement of Self Service BI & Ad hoc Reporting

Better Visualization Components

Exception handling capabilities and capability to connect to multiple data source systems.

In all a nice conglomeration for flexibility to the developer and end user friendly tool

A fully web-based BI tool

Easy UI

Easy Data Acquisition

Easy sending notifications in case of data issues

Built-in social BI capabilities: context sensitive discussions and annotations linked to relevant data

Contextual & suggestive data and search results

Data mash-up in one view: Access Corporate BI & Ad-hoc data sources and model together on the fly using in-memory technology

Many applications works together in a self-service mode.

You can add more user in a group for a discussions like a social media.

The interactive infographics dynamically reflect business changes.

Users can create their own infographics to visualize trends in the data.

Starting discussions, subscribing to users, searching all features are easy.

Its performance and social capabilities is very good.

PROS:

Infographics

Multiple database connections,

Security

Reporting without need of technical expertise

CONS:

Needs improvement for big data analysis

Needs more support for predictive and forecast analysis.

Reporting customization features are limited to some extent, which might be a problem for advanced users.

- It lets users analyze corporate data and create personalized dashboards

- Very intuitive, and interactive analytics

- Highly visual and understandable infographic format

- Many applications works together in a self-service mode

- You can add more user in a group for a discussions like a social media.

- The interactive infographics dynamically reflect business changes

- A very good tool for a small to mid size company for a small to medium scale BI projects

The very first thing that comes in mind about Necto - Panorama Software is its scalability and it is readymade for enterprise deployment, with very minimal efforts.

Excellent in memory performance, return results with clicks, matchless click to collaborate features, just initiate discussion on data points and context, connect relevant users and dashboards and explore suggestive auto insight.

We have been using this tool for self-service data discovery.

The tool is quite easy to use and we got on-premise training from Panorama.

I like their customer service and the tech support guys are very responsive.

I saw lot of people complaining about lack of community forum, but they do have a forum that is quite active.

The things like I most it supports variety of charts, I was quite bored with my previous BI tool which mostly support bar, line, and pie chart. I can now create more meaningful charts radar, doughnut, pareto, scatter, range, point, boxplot, etc.

- It lets users analyze corporate data and create personalized dashboards.

- Very intuitive and interactive analytics.

- Highly visual and understandable infographic format.

- Many applications works together in a self-service mode.

- You can add more user in a group for a discussions like a social media.

- The interactive infographics dynamically reflect business changes.

- Users can create their own infographics to visualize trends in the data.

- Starting discussions, subscribing to users, searching all features are easy.

- Its performance and social capabilities is very good.

Necto 15 as a BI tool is outstanding. It has many features which would make life easier for people in an organization that had to deal with large volumes of data. As a real user of Necto, the following are the few features which I liked most:

1. Simple and easy to use.
2. Automatic analysis and recommendations to generate basis dashboard from raw data, i.e. the Self-Service feature.
3. Enhanced data visualization with a wide range of tools and features.
4. In-cell info-graphics for better data visualization.
5. Workboard sharing with other users.
6. Inline comment features to highlight a specific issue in a workboard.
7. Automatic recommendation of similar already generated dashboards for better data analysis.

The major strengths of this product are social business intelligence, insights and intuitive self-service.It is extremly beneficial for self-service data discovery. The customer service is good with online videos interesting and easy to understand. It's self-service mode is useful for many applications to work together.

Our company migrated to Panorama Necto from another tool. This solution is very easy to use and offers a huge variety of features. It helps us reach our customers and our vendors, supports different graphics templates and implements interactive analytics tools. Also it has very effective tools to connect with your colleagues which is one of the best I have ever seen.

This infographic solution spawns amazing obvious sales reports and you can check many aspects of work of your sales team. Another positive points are the cloud service and capability to connect many sources in one task, so I can quickly create sales report from different teams and send it to different departments, even from my tablet.

And last but not at least, the Panorama team created very informative online help and video tutorials, so you can realize features of the product very fast.

The most valuable feature I found with this tool is that it advises current trends of workboards after analyzing your data. It gives us tons of defined workboards/ charts to play around with.

Amazing business intelligence tool with rich info graphics, it is one of the excellent self service BI tools with impeccable collaboration features.

We are currently using this tool for cross-country sales reporting and, we must admit, this is an amazing tool for self-service data discovery.

Matchless click to collaborate features, initiate discussion on data points and context, connect relevant users and dashboards and explore suggestive auto insight. Amazing geo analytics support, readily integrate with maps and plots the charts nicely.

Panorama Necto provides governed and guided data discovery platform.

The auto-generated dashboards feature is a very good starting point for data discovery.

Simple and vibrant infographic can be customized to a cell level.

It has handy collaborating feature to initiate discussions with relevant users.

Good performance.

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 and I came across 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 has 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.

The infographics are customizable and the tool is end-user centric. It has a commendable recommendation engine.

Necto is the first BI tool with infographics which is a great and unique feature. For me, they are a new, better version of well-known KPIs. Users can create their own infographics or choose the existing ones from the library.

Collaboration and social capabilities including sharing content, starting discussions, subscribing to users, searching for the relevant content and many other similar feature is something me and my colleagues were thrilled by.

Support for mobile devices is very good and offers the same experience on all platforms.

Data discovery and transferring the data from Excel to dashboard with just 2 clicks are astonishing. Notification for KPIs is also very good. The self-service feature is cool in creating customized charts and reports.

The Exception Handling feature that identifies the errors and highlights them to the user is a unique feature that cannot be found in any of the BI tools other than Panorama Necto. 

The collaboration, automation, graphs, performance make it the best of its kind.

While working on Business Intelligence and searching for newly available tool, I came across Panorama Necto. This is the first business tool I have seen with a scope for personalization and while providing a great visual infographic experience and which is user friendly.

There is also the provision for collaborative working where users can share, discuss, and edit on a single platform. 

Some helpful features like realtime notifications, public or private comments, maps and location-based services are also made available.

The mobile BI app takes this tool to the next level.

We are a small IT company that was looking for a BI tool in order to eliminate the usage of Excel as the reporting tool in our organization. For a company having business users and decision makers in different time zones and different offices, Necto provided a great solution. 

The Social collaboration built in Necto helped with interactions among business users while viewing a single work board. The work boards are collaborative, dynamic and suggestive. The recommendation engine is the most interesting piece as it suggests relevant work boards based on a user's usage.

The work boards are a great way to provide the management a clear, concise, one source of truth and progress of business in one snapshot. The drill down capabilities allow the business users to analyze and gain insights. It lets business users spend more time on analyzing data rather than collecting and creating reports.

The feature to find people and chat with the concerned user right from the report window adds a great value and reduces the pain of emails going back and forth among users.

Cause and effect is a nice feature to have in order to do a first level of analysis. The ability to find exceptions and provide various insights is a great feature to have.

Getting the business users trained and getting on board was easy as the interface is intuitive and easy to learn and manage.

I found following features most valuable:

• Built-in social BI capabilities: context sensitive discussions and annotations linked to relevant data
• Contextual & suggestive data and search results
• Best of Data Discovery and Enterprise BI with a unified web-based UI
• Data mash-up in one view: Access Corporate BI & Ad-hoc data sources and model together on the fly using in-memory technology

Necto has multiple features similar to other BI tools but parameters keeping it as emerging leader are:

1.) Collaborative Analysis: groups of people can decide things on the go, it's awesome.

2.) Vibrant Infographics: even single cell attributes can be set for infographics. It provides more flexibility to design workboards.

I am in the process of suggesting a new BI tool to our management team and I am looking at the different BI tools available.

Certainly Necto is good when it comes to:

• Infographics
• Multiple database connections
• Security

It has nice social features which can give context based discussions, search for users and relevant content within the system.

Necto has a Twitter-like feeling since 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.

• Some of the features it provides, are highly useful for the kind of requirements we have
• Highly interactive and eye catchy infographics
• Powerful exception handling capabilities
• It has got excellent collaboration capabilities
• It can work with multiple data systems

• Users can start context-based discussions, and include context and annotations, which are saved as part of the work board to add more depth and foster knowledge sharing
• Subscribing to users - subscribing to one of our colleagues lets us follow all the changes made to his or her work board, and because you can view users' shared work boards, you can concentrate on those users that are active. Subscribing is easy. You just need to click a person in the social bar, then click the subscribe icon, and a second click will unsubscribe you.
• Necto has a Twitter like feeling
• Necto is available both as a client server and online service
• The Panorama website offers support through email, phone and tutorials

Effective data presentation, tracking performance interactively, dynamic update of changes, collaborative working environment and mobile BI app.

This is the next generation BI tool, which will be very helpful to small and medium businesses to kick start data exploration and visualization on their diverse databases, with lesser intervention of IT. Yes, this tool is more of end-user centric, gives way more power to end users to perform the data analysis.

Eye-catching infographics, image banks, numerous chart options and functionality for slicing and dicing, amazing recommendation engine which can give more insights to users. Matchless click-to-collaborate features, initiate discussion on data points and context, connect relevant users and dashboards and explore suggestive auto insight. 

Panorama helped one of my clients to replace a costly BI tool and bring down the licensing cost and made the tool available to more users globally.

The best feature I liked is the infographics which is great and it's best unique feature. It helps developers use existing infographics from the library or they can create their own and present to end users.

We are pleasantly surprised with the collaboration and visualization features of Panorama Necto. Relatively a less know tool, but I think it is very promising and there is lot potential and values in this product.

The product is very easy to use, very ideal for rolling out a self-service data discovery and visualization solution for data scientist and business users.

It has excellent social and collaboration capabilities.

Matchless click to collaborate features, initiate discussion on data points and context, connect relevant users and dashboards and explore suggestive auto insight.

Eye catching infographics, image bank, numerous chart options and functionality for slicing and dicing.

• I like implementing it to send reports through email.
• The data discovery feature is very good and appealing. It is very easy to use. The generation of dashboards from various sources is excellent.

• It's easy to use and doesn't require a lot of effort.
• It provides great infographics.
• It operates in a self-service environment.
• It's scalable.
• It is fast and easy to deploy.

Excellent infographics

Very interactive

Seamless collaboration

Impressive performance

I like its infographic feature and social ribbon the most. On one side, you can generate well-illustrated, data-intensive reports using its infographic feature, and on other side, you can get all stakeholders on board to address any concern/issue with specific report. 

By using the reminder mechanism, you can bind people to act and respond on any highlighted issue on time and with authority.

It is impressive how easy it is to use this tool. A good example is when you want to share your dashboard with someone, you just find the person and give the permission.

This tool exceeded my expectations! I have never seen before a reporting/Business Intelligence tool with so many innovative resources, like interactions with other person, share reports, save notifications, send e-mails.... It has all of these functions that are easy to use and you don't need to get out of it.

I used this tool for a regional sales dashboard and I confirm that it is one of the best data discovery BI tools I have ever used.

What I extremely appreciate is that the tool is easy to use, and with a simple click you can import data from multiple sources to build visualizations. It's very intuitive and very good for interactive analytics. 

Also, Panorama Necto has excellent in-memory performance.

• 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 lots 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.

• Good social and collaboration capabilities.
• Fair amount of documentation available considering a relatively new tool
• A very good self service BI tool
• Allows connecting multiple data sources

1. Auto-generated dashboards feature

2. Easy to used and highly customized info-graphics options.

3. Tool is user-friendly.

4. Error notification feature is useful.

5. Handy collaborating feature to initiate discussions with relevant users.

There are many features to be mentioned -- collaboration, high infographics, high memory performance, excellent geo analytics, supports various kinds of charts charts that are not available in other tools.

The most valuable features for us include the infographics that can be created by the user for visualizing the data trends. Also, we like the ease of integration from multiple data sources.

It's very flexible and almost meets any of your needs.

• Ease of use and training
• Eye catching info graphics, image bank, numerous chart options and functionality for slicing and dicing
• Excellent social and collaboration capabilities
• Excellent in memory performance, returns results with a few clicks
• Extensive geo analytics tool
• Easy to deploy

We like the collaborative and supportive business intelligence feature most in this product. Because of the collaborative environment, business users from different departments can communicate & share feedback with each other in a fraction of time. Supportive business intelligence also helps new users to drive through the product and make themselves familiar with it.

Collaboration and infographics are the most valuable features of this product.  

The collaboration capability of Necto BI is amazing. The infographics are very attractive. It's a smart self service BI application.

It is an easy infographic design app that requires very little effort to produce interactive dashboards in ways that make sense to the enterprise. 

Panorama Necto is a collaborative business intelligence tool. The most valuable and relevant data is shared within the organization to improve decision-making across the board. 

The tool can automate the process of analyzing information and provides a self-service data discovery that automates much of the data analysis process.

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.

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

• The users can take a deep dive into their business processes with the rich infographics suite. Necto has more than 2,000 infographics in its library.
• The exception handling capabilities of Necto is powerful one which includes bubble up exception, automated insights, root cause analysis and they are just a couple of clicks away...
• Another prominent feature of Necto is its real time collaborative decision making. A group of decision makers can collaborate with each other and compile a meaningful real time analysis.

The eye-catching infographic features enhance the visual appeal. This tool is extremely beneficial for self-service data discovery. It is very easy to use with relatively good performance. Good remainder mechanism to bound people to act and respond on any highlighted issue on time and with authority.

• More meaningful charts like Pareto chart, boxplot, range, point. 
• Awesome performance compared to the other BI tools in the class.
• Very intuitive and interactive analytics.
• Admin part is very user friendly, and creating users and groups is a bit easy task.
• More than visuals, data presentation is super while other tools have few limitations here.
• When you pull in data, hierarchies are created automatically.
• It's a scalable and self-service tool.
• Performance is so good when connected to multiple data sources, the in-memory works better.

• Infographics are totally cool.
• Visualization of data in a more attractive way to users.

- Collaboration features which allows users to communicate and share with each other.

- In-cell info graphics

OLAP analysis with Microsoft SQL Server is a valuable feature for me.

(1) A fully web based BI tool

(2) 95% covers the requirements of Self Service BI & Ad hoc Reporting

(3) Better Visualization Components

(4) Easy UI

(5) Easy Data Acquisition