Comparison between top Data Discovery Solutions: Panorama Software and Tableau Software

1. 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.

2. 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.

3. 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.

4. 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