Panorama Necto VS Power BI

Necto offers you a full web experience with true self- service features in a single governed web interface. By using Necto you will also value from:

Fast ROI with a unique Development method Automated insights, Suggestiveness and Collaboration in context. Notifier (scheduling mechanism) that can be defined by any business user, and that can be triggered by

exceptions. Data analysis that is supported by astonishing Infographics and visualizations.

Power BI is not fully web enabled and their development on Excel for advanced data models is complex and demands a high level of experience. It is only available in the cloud, and the data has to be uploaded – which might be a security issue. It also lacks some basic BI fundamentals such as ‘drill through’ and ‘data security’. Also – in case you are using OLAP cubes today – Power BI is not able to connect to it directly, and has to recreate these schemas before loading it to the cloud. In doing so, it loses the ability to use OLAP actions and security

Topic Necto Power BI

Visual – The ability to view insights and analytical business processes in the business own language with limitless visualization.

In Necto, business users can visualize their insights and their business processes with a full infographic suite. Necto has more than 2000 Infographics in its library, while you can add any other visualization simply & quickly

Power BI supports some basic and minimal infographics.

Suggestive –The BI system should recommend to its users the most relevant insight to focus on.

Necto Suggestive Discovery engine recommends to its users the most relevant insights to focus on, based on personal preferences and user’s behavior.

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Automated Analysis – the ability of business users to find insights automatically and quickly.

Necto supports full Exception handling capabilities- including bubble up exception, automated insights, root cause analysis, and defined exceptions. With Necto a business user can find insights and their root cause in just 2 clicks.

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BI Collaboration in context – the ability for users to collaborate in context, on data and insight, and make better decisions.

Necto supports a fully collaborative decision making capability in context. A user can collaborate with his colleagues to make business decisions in real time.

Users can create new comments on a workbook or insert text boxes near elements as annotations on a component level only, not cell related.

Cost – total cost of ownership for the first deployment and for users’ growth within your organization.

Necto’s concept is - Development on a Single Web Interface. This enables more flexibility for developers and for end user. In this way – while developing a few components, you see how your changes reflect the other components in the same Workboard, with no need to move between environments or publish views from the client to the server.

$10 per user per month if you have office 365. If not – it will cost you $18 for each user per month.

Notifications & Alerts – the ability for an end user to define his own notifications and alerts within the system.

Necto provides the business users with the ability to define alerts and notifications within the system based on time, thresholds, exceptions, etc. – all that in just 2 clicks.

No ability to get reports by mail, however there’s the ability to define alerts on new reports.

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Governed – a system which is very easy to manage. Fully web based with just one web client (no desktop) that keeps one version of the truth.

Necto maintains a single version of the truth in a single Web interface. There is no need for Desktop deployment that creates data silos and many versions of the truth. All the Necto application run in a single user interface that requires minimal training.

Models/Dashboards can be developed in excel or in the designer (Desktop). Then you are required to upload the data model to the Power BI Cloud service. After doing so, there is no option to create data security.

Dashboard developing and maintaining effort – a fast ROI with the ability to quickly apply changes and easiness of redesigning.

Necto’s concept is a development on a Single Web Interface. This enables more flexibility for developers and for end user. In this way – while developing a few components, you see how your changes reflect the other components in the same Workboard, with no need to move between environments, or publish views from client to server.

Power BI is not fully web enabled. Developers have to work on excel or on the provided Power BI desktop tool in order to combine a couple of data sources. This data set is then uploaded to the cloud. Once you want to redesign a Dashboard, you have to move back to the Excel or Power BI Desktop tool, and redesign your data model and Dashboard. Then re-publish it. This process of redesigning with the need to upload a model every time to the cloud is long and tedious.

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Working with OLAP

This is what we do, bringing in Actions, Security and other OLAP features.

Because Power BI does not use MDX to query its models (the Native OLAP language), there is a very limited support to SSAS (it can connect directly only to Tabular models and not to OLAP ones). For proper Power BI functionalities, the cubes must be replicated on the cloud. Every query to the OLAP that returns data, is replicated, treated as another table, and turns to be part of the in memory model. This is causing a lot of overhead for the Power BI implementation, And is not using OLAP as it should. This solution doesn’t support critical functionalities like parent child hierarchies, OLAP Actions and Security.

Gartner Magic Quadrant for Business Intelligence and Analytics Platforms, Feb 2015

1. Enterprise readiness. 2. High reference scores

on critical customer experience metrics for support and product quality.

3. The main reasons why customers choose Panorama's software are its ‘ease of use’ for end users and developers as well as its functionality.

1. Microsoft's product portfolio is complex and includes many components which can cause confusion for customers evaluating purchase options.

2. Weak functionality. 3. Consultancy Experience in

the Power BI stack is hard to find.

4. Microsoft's sales model continues to be a pain for customers.

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Other concerns 1. OEM readiness with a wide range of API. support and SDK

2. Ability to add new data sources that are not out of the box.

3. Geo solution supports ESRI on premise or cloud.

4. Enhanced modeling layer.

5. On Premise enabled.

1. Sharing with people is available but data security cannot be implemented.

2. Drill through between Dashboards is not enabled.

3. No API’s, not ready for OEM.

4. Geo solution supports Bing maps only.

5. Showing different information from a couple of sources.

6. Cloud solution only, no “On Premise” option.