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Necto
Necto
4.3
(40)

Pricing

Pricing available upon request

About Necto

Panorama Necto is a business intelligence (BI) suite that is designed to work in tandem with any data source—OLAP, spreadsheets, relational and in-memory.

Necto suits midsize and enterprise-level companies across all major industries and can be deployed both on-premise or as a web-based solution. The Necto suite is built upon three core pillars: advanced analytics, social BI and automated relevant insights. These applications work together in a self-service mode to create a socially-enabled BI solution, helping companies both analyze and understand users' behavior in order to gain insights into operational problems as well as potential opportunities.

The system automatically tracks users' interests and how they interact with company data and then, based on these interests, suggests connections with colleagues.

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Necto Pricing and Plans

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Necto Features

  • Popular features found in Business Intelligence
    Ad hoc Reporting
    Benchmarking
    Collaboration Tools
    Data Connectors
    Data Visualization
    Key Performance Indicators
    Multiple Data Sources
    Performance Metrics
    Predictive Analytics
    Profitability Analysis
    Strategic Planning
    Trend/Problem Indicators
  • More features of Necto
    Activity Dashboard
    Alerts/Notifications
    Customizable Reports
    Customizable Templates
    Dashboard
    Dashboard Creation
    Data Import/Export
    KPI Monitoring
    OLAP
    Real-Time Analytics
    Real-Time Data
    Real-Time Notifications
    Real-Time Reporting
    Real-Time Updates
    Reporting/Analytics
    Scorecards
    Self-service Analytics
    Visual Analytics

Necto Integrations

Microsoft Excel
Microsoft Excel
Dynamics 365
Dynamics 365
Microsoft Visual Studio
Microsoft Visual Studio
Salesforce Sales Cloud
Salesforce Sales Cloud
Microsoft Azure
Microsoft Azure

Necto User Reviews

Overall Rating

4.3

Ratings Breakdown

5

38%

4

57%

3

3%

2

3%

1

0%

Secondary Ratings

Ease of Use

4.4

Value for money

4.1

Customer support

4.3

Functionality

4.0

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Sidharth D.

Verified reviewer

Outsourcing/ Offshoring

10000+ employees

Used unspecified for less than 2 years

Review source

Reviewed August 2015

One of the best self service BI tools. Real fun to use and explore

5

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.

Ratings Breakdown

5
Ease of use
4
Value for money
4
Customer support
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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.

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Gaur P.

Verified reviewer

Information Technology and Services

Used unspecified for unspecified

Review source

Reviewed April 2015

Powerful Database friendly BI tool

4

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

Ratings Breakdown

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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.

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Shankar P.

Verified reviewer

Financial Services

Used unspecified for less than 6 months

Review source

Reviewed April 2015

Immature with BigData Analytics

2

Ratings Breakdown

2
Ease of use
2
Functionality
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Pros:
I am into the process to suggest a nice BI tool our management team wherein I am looking for different BI tools available in the market. Certainly, Necto is good at: 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 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.
Cons:
I am disappointed at following points -No BigData talks -Predictive analytics looks little immature Nowadays everybody is going towards BigData & in this scenario, if any tool falls short in this ternimologies then its a red signal for all of us.

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Gaurav P.

Verified reviewer

10000+ employees

Used unspecified for unspecified

Review source

Reviewed April 2015

Nice tool for context-based discussions. Thums up.

4

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.

Ratings Breakdown

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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.

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Nidhish K.

Verified reviewer

Computer Software

5001-10000 employees

Used unspecified for less than 6 months

Review source

Reviewed August 2015

Incredible BI tool for data Exploration and Visualization

5

The tool is extremely easy to use, with click you can import data, explore it and create the visualizations; yes it is that easy unlike other traditional Business Intelligence tools, where you have to write tons of code! Moreover, it is 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. Don’t worry if you have multiple databases, my client’s had diverse databases and were present in multiple geographies to our utter surprise it was really easy to get hold of all the datasets and adding to Necto, within a couple of days my client had a development environment available to start the analysis on their data.

Ratings Breakdown

5
Ease of use
5
Value for money
4
Customer support
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Pros:
Eye catching info graphics, image bank, numerous chart options and functionality for slicing and dicing, amazing recommendation engine which can give more insights to users. Gives IT more power to govern and manage the platform with ease, on the other hand it is equally powerful for business users. Panorama can help medium AND small business us to replace costly BI tools and bring down the licensing cost and made tool available to more users.
Cons:
Sometimes, the dashboard looks a bit complicated loads with lots of gadgets at first look, for the naïve users it may be difficult to analyze, though it can be changed per the requirement. The thing which I was expecting and is not available as of now was a personal edition for installation on Windows home edition that can come handy when practicing and training other users; I hope they plan to provide that to us soon.

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Milos M.

Verified reviewer

51-200 employees

Used unspecified for unspecified

Review source

Reviewed April 2015

An original and innovative BI tool with excellent self service and collaboration capabilities

4

The management of our company has set a few goals for the Analytics and Reporting team and one of them is to find the best front-end tool for our business users. We are trying to get the load off the developers 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 some unique and useful features.

Ratings Breakdown

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Pros:
Ability to collaborate with other users by sharing content, starting discussions, subscribing to users, searching for the relevant content. Automatic identification of exceptions in the data and automated insights including root cause analysis. Mobile application provides the users 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.
Cons:
Needs more support for ETL and data transformation support Needs more support for predictive and forecast analysis. Does not support multiple languages. Resolution of some potential issues is not available in forums or some other knowledge bases, you need to reach out to the customer support.

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Soumya R.

Verified reviewer

Information Technology and Services

Used unspecified for unspecified

Review source

Reviewed April 2015

Collaborative Info-graphic New Age Interactive Self Service BI end to end solution

5

I am currently working as Data Analyst and for the purpose of ETL,Reporting,and daily BAU activities I have been using Panorama Necto since last 1 year. I must say I am highly impressed with some of it's competitive features which can be answer to many critical business user questions

Ratings Breakdown

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Pros:
Highly Infographic with plenty of options to choose from chart components and maps. Seamless collaboration helps carry out a context based discussion which helps quick decision making without the need to preparing big presentations and setting up meeting rooms for verbal discussion. Exceptional Error handling capability and its notification capability to users makes it stand out compared to other BI tools Ability to connect to multiple datasource
Cons:
Support for connectivity to Netezza is not confirmed Multilingual Support needs enhancement

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Shivakant D.

Verified reviewer

Computer Software

Used daily for less than 6 months

Review source

Reviewed March 2018

This is a good product with a lot of capability.

4

Great BI Tool that balances Ease-of-use with Functionality well.

Ratings Breakdown

4
Ease of use
3
Customer support
5
Functionality
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Pros:
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.
Cons:
The least likable are This is not compatible with Mac OS and Blackberry. No multilanguage support. Limited reporting customization abilities.

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Rupa C.

Verified reviewer

201-500 employees

Used unspecified for unspecified

Review source

Reviewed April 2015

New age BI tool with excellent Infographics - really fun to use

5

Panorama is very a powerful tool for data discovery and dashboarding. We are using this tool to demonstrate run a number of operational reports on automotive parts inventory, supply and quality metrics which require loads of collaboration on key statistics. We were simply spell bound with capability.

Ratings Breakdown

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Pros:
Excellent Info graphics Very user interactive Seamless collaboration Impressive Performance
Cons:
User console seems very complicated at first look

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Snehal K.

Verified reviewer

Machinery

10000+ employees

Used unspecified for less than 6 months

Review source

Reviewed June 2015

Necto Excellent Self Service BI tool, but they should find a way to analyse big data

4

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.

Ratings Breakdown

5
Ease of use
4
Value for money
5
Customer support
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Pros:
1. Auto-generated dashboards feature 2. Easy to used and highly customized info-graphics options. 3. Tools is user friendly. 4. Error notification feature is useful. 5. Handy collaborating feature to initiate discussions with relevant users.
Cons:
Big Data handling is a problem. Should support all data sources.

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