Panorama Necto VS Tableau

Necto offers a full web experience with true self - service features in a single governed web interface. By using Necto you 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 astonoshing Infographic visualizations.

Tableau views and data sources can only be created in the client desktop tool and not on the web. The collaboration in the product is limited, and it only supports versions that are 1 year old, so you are forced to upgrade every year. If you are using OLAP cubes – Tableau is not able to use predefined functions like Actions and Security.

Topic Necto Tableau

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 from the web.

Tableau supports infographics using some basic shapes. Users can upload their own shapes.

Suggestive –The BI system should recommend to the user the most relevant insights to focus on.

Necto Suggestive Discovery engine recommends to the users the most relevant insights to focus on, based on personal preferences and user’s behavior. This includes personal recommendations for Workboards, people & insights.

With Tableau the user doesn’t have any Insight’s recommendation and has to search for the insight by himself. Most of the usage of Tableau is done by analysts who search for insights.

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.

Tableau doesn’t support automated analysis and the user need to use “brute force” in order to find insight. It doesn’t support “Bubble up exceptions”, or “one click exceptions”. Any exceptions must be programmed.

Topic Necto Tableau

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

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

Tableau has no collaboration capacities aside from the trivial share and annotations that Necto supports as well.

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

Necto provides a web server + clients from the get go, hence the price to start the deployment and the price to grow is very competitive.

Tableau has its ‘land & expand” strategy, which means that you pay 2000$ per user to try (desktop) but when you want to grow, you have to buy the Tableau server with a price list of more than 250,000$ (If there are a lot of users. It’s about 1,000$ per user). There’s also an option to buy Tableau Online – much cheaper but only the server is in the cloud. You still need to buy the Desktop version.)2000$ per user) Also, for the desktop version. You must buy the expensive $2000 edition to get all data connectors, with $1000 you only get the Excel flat file basics.

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 a just 2 clicks.

Only systems managers (not users), can define expectations and emails, hindering the ability for the end users to work and report on their needs. The end user can subscribe to an existing subscription.

Topic Necto Tableau

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 applications run in a single user interface that requires minimal training.

Tableau is mainly a desktop tool. It requires IT to manage installations and each user can create his own version of the truth (views and dashboards) with his un-managed desktop client. When moving into a server deployment, which is very expensive, the IT need to deal with 2 areas, Desktop and Server. Each has its own functionality.

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

The Necto 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 couple of components you see how your changes reflect the other components in the same Workboard, without moving between environments, and with no need to save any components in one environment to then publish them.

Tableau is not fully web enabled. Developers have to work on Tableau desktop tool in order to create a view or a data source. This will enable connectivity between different data sources and is only available for a specific workbook. It makes it difficult to maintain different logic in different workbooks. Once you want to redesign a Dashboard - you have to move back to the ‘views area’ and redesign your view, to then re-publish it if you use a Tableau server.

Topic Necto Tableau

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

1. Panorama Necto combines social, collaboration and smart insight capabilities with enterprise features to deliver a unique, yet governed and guided data discovery experience

2. Panorama is in the Visionaries quadrant because of its product vision, innovation and strong market understanding. It has delivered a next-generation yet governed data discovery experience based on a unique combination of social and collaboration features together with smart data discovery.

1. Metadata management, development and integration, BI platform administration, embedded BI and collaboration are rated as weaker capabilities of the platform, making it less well suited for centralized and embedded use cases

2. Tableau's enterprise features around data modeling and reuse, scalability and embed ability … are still more limited than IT-1centric system-of-record platforms.

Working with OLAP

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

Tableau has very limited support to SSAS, since It cannot use predefined Security and Actions.

Other concerns 1. The Necto Model generates a SQL server Tabular model, which is fully accessible by all BI tools.

1. The Tableau Model is a proprietary and you cannot connect to it from any other tool