Panorama Necto vs. Zendesk Explore

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
Panorama Necto
Score 8.0 out of 10
N/A
Panorama Necto is a business intelligence solution that provides enterprises with new ways to collaborate and create unique contextual connections. Some key features include: Workboards/Dashboards, Advanced Analytics, and Contextual Discovery.N/A
Zendesk Explore
Score 8.8 out of 10
N/A
Zendesk offers Explore, a business intelligence and customer analytics tool which integrates with the Zendesk suite featuring ticket analytics, custom fields, dashboards, and other features. Zendesk is migrating customers of the BIME analytics product, which is approaching end of support, to Zendesk Explore in 2019.N/A
Pricing
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Free Trial
YesNo
Free/Freemium Version
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Premium Consulting/Integration Services
NoNo
Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
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Community Pulse
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Considered Both Products
Panorama Necto
Chose Panorama Necto
Panorama Necto is a very self service BI, data discovery and automation tool. It empowers business users with data discovery tools.
Chose Panorama Necto
More visually enriched infographics and geo analytics and lower license cost means Panorama is a front runner in comparison to the tools mentioned above.
Chose Panorama Necto
No I have not used any other self service BI tool.
Chose Panorama Necto
This is the next generation BI tool, which will be very helpful for small and medium businesses to kick start data exploration and visualization of their diverse databases, with less intervention from IT. This tool is more end user centric and gives way more power to the end …
Chose Panorama Necto
Micro strategy and SAP business objects require building cubes. This requires lots of SQL language and a need to export them to a repository so they can be used to build ad hoc reports. They have to be scheduled to view or analyse the data in Excel or PowerPoint or PDF formats. …
Chose Panorama Necto
One of the best tools in the market available today. I started getting attached to this tool recently and this never stops amazing me. I can connect to a variety of data sources and quickly analyze my data. The best part of this product is the built-in intelligence system which …
Chose Panorama Necto
We compared Panorama Necto with another leading product. Necto's cost and visual appeal were certainly winners.
Chose Panorama Necto
We can visualize the data right away in Necto. Where as we have to create reports in SAP Business Objects to present it to the business user. The reports have to be scheduled at particular time to get the presentation.
We need to have additional SDK code for SAP Business …
Chose Panorama Necto
We have evaluated few small vendor's BI tools for reporting purposes. Among other BI tools, we found Necto is quite easy to use and provides very good data visualization. Also it provides collaboration features which are least supported by other BI tools.
Chose Panorama Necto
In comparison with Pentaho Business Analytics, Panorama Necto 14 is providing similar features where it is distinguished through its provision of a suggestive analytics feature. This is fairly unique to the Panorama Necto 14 software where it analyzes information from various …
Chose Panorama Necto
It works very well with Microsoft tools and platforms.
Chose Panorama Necto
We are evaluating different data visualization tools and recently I tried Panorama Necto. I was really amazed with this product as it's a new age technology and powerful tool for visualizing data, creating reports. It comes with Infographics which is great and best unique …
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we are assessing latest BI tools available in market for customer
Chose Panorama Necto
All the above mentioned BI tools are complex from a maintenance perspective. They are not easy to learn. All those BI tools have limited cloud based reporting capability. Whereas Necto is a fully web based self service BI tool. It's collaborative capability makes it stack up …
Chose Panorama Necto
It provides attractive info-graphics according to user's interest. Their visual materiels are modern and stylish. You can use the same dashboard everywhere. Necto always keeps you up-to-date through mobile devices. It gives you many automated analysis and recommendations …
Chose Panorama Necto
Collaboration on data is super powerful in the case of Necto and wins all the medals compared to other BI tools. The real time analysis for decision making is extremely easy and just a click away, which is really not a smooth case for other BI tools.
Chose Panorama Necto
  • Better support for collaboration
  • Better support for info graphics
  • Cost effective
Chose Panorama Necto
Tableau, QlikView, Power BI, Klipfolio, Zoho Reports...
Zendesk Explore
Chose Zendesk Explore
Zendesk Explore stands out against Freshchat and Freshdesk for it's deeper analytics capabilities and seamless integration with Zendesk ecosystem. While Freshdesk offers reporting, it lacks on the same level of granular insights and customization that Zendesk Explore provides. …
Chose Zendesk Explore
I selected Zendesk Explore only to provide an easy and quick access for my managers and supervisors regading metrics and volume trends. Is not the most flexible nor complete data visualization tool, but works well for day-to-day follow ups.
You need to use another tool if you …
Chose Zendesk Explore
N/A - the company had already implemented Zendesk Explore when I was hired.
Chose Zendesk Explore
What's good with Zendesk Explore is that data is already provided since it's included in the package. We get the data from Zendesk Support and make a report in Zendesk Explore.

It provides suggested templates and report formats also which you don't get on the other platforms. …
Chose Zendesk Explore
Zendesk Explore is more user friendly and the software plus maintenance cost is less. The report section is more detailed and no lag while creating report for a large data source. The report segments and formats are editable which make it more convenient to make a report …
Chose Zendesk Explore
We tried other reporting and Zendesk Explore was by far the best as it was already implemented into our support system we were already using; Zendesk. The main selling point for us, is that all of the reports are customizable and that no coding knowledge is needed to build out …
Chose Zendesk Explore
Zendesk Explore is better than Freshservice Analytics. In Freshservice, even though the interface is more attractive, the functions are not as good as Zendesk Explore. Reports and dashboards are hard to build, and the materials to learn are not as good as the materials on …
Chose Zendesk Explore
For support data, we have only used Explore because it came with our ZenDesk membership. So I can't speak to other solutions! That said, it's awesome to have Knowledge Base and support data in one place.
Features
Panorama NectoZendesk Explore
BI Standard Reporting
Comparison of BI Standard Reporting features of Product A and Product B
Panorama Necto
7.3
Ratings
11% below category average
Zendesk Explore
9.0
Ratings
10% above category average
Pixel Perfect reports6.00 Ratings7.10 Ratings
Customizable dashboards8.00 Ratings10.00 Ratings
Report Formatting Templates8.00 Ratings9.90 Ratings
Ad-hoc Reporting
Comparison of Ad-hoc Reporting features of Product A and Product B
Panorama Necto
8.0
Ratings
1% below category average
Zendesk Explore
8.3
Ratings
3% above category average
Drill-down analysis9.00 Ratings9.50 Ratings
Formatting capabilities7.00 Ratings9.00 Ratings
Integration with R or other statistical packages8.00 Ratings4.80 Ratings
Report sharing and collaboration8.00 Ratings10.00 Ratings
Report Output and Scheduling
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Panorama Necto
7.2
Ratings
14% below category average
Zendesk Explore
8.4
Ratings
1% above category average
Publish to Web7.80 Ratings6.90 Ratings
Publish to PDF6.70 Ratings9.00 Ratings
Report Versioning7.10 Ratings9.00 Ratings
Report Delivery Scheduling7.00 Ratings8.90 Ratings
Delivery to Remote Servers00 Ratings8.00 Ratings
Data Discovery and Visualization
Comparison of Data Discovery and Visualization features of Product A and Product B
Panorama Necto
7.7
Ratings
3% below category average
Zendesk Explore
7.2
Ratings
10% below category average
Pre-built visualization formats (heatmaps, scatter plots etc.)7.00 Ratings6.60 Ratings
Location Analytics / Geographic Visualization8.50 Ratings7.10 Ratings
Predictive Analytics7.60 Ratings5.50 Ratings
Pattern Recognition and Data Mining00 Ratings9.40 Ratings
Access Control and Security
Comparison of Access Control and Security features of Product A and Product B
Panorama Necto
7.6
Ratings
11% below category average
Zendesk Explore
9.1
Ratings
7% above category average
Multi-User Support (named login)8.40 Ratings9.50 Ratings
Role-Based Security Model7.30 Ratings9.50 Ratings
Multiple Access Permission Levels (Create, Read, Delete)7.30 Ratings8.00 Ratings
Report-Level Access Control00 Ratings8.60 Ratings
Single Sign-On (SSO)00 Ratings10.00 Ratings
Mobile Capabilities
Comparison of Mobile Capabilities features of Product A and Product B
Panorama Necto
7.0
Ratings
11% below category average
Zendesk Explore
7.8
Ratings
1% below category average
Responsive Design for Web Access7.40 Ratings6.10 Ratings
Mobile Application6.80 Ratings8.30 Ratings
Dashboard / Report / Visualization Interactivity on Mobile7.20 Ratings9.00 Ratings
Application Program Interfaces (APIs) / Embedding
Comparison of Application Program Interfaces (APIs) / Embedding features of Product A and Product B
Panorama Necto
-
Ratings
Zendesk Explore
5.9
Ratings
28% below category average
REST API00 Ratings5.40 Ratings
Javascript API00 Ratings5.90 Ratings
iFrames00 Ratings5.50 Ratings
Java API00 Ratings5.60 Ratings
Themeable User Interface (UI)00 Ratings6.20 Ratings
Customizable Platform (Open Source)00 Ratings7.00 Ratings
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User Ratings
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Usability
8.2
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Support Rating
7.1
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Implementation Rating
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User Testimonials
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Likelihood to Recommend
How efficient is the tool for error handling capabilities? - In this case Panorama Necto has a unique feature of exceptional error handling capability and conditional error alerts that can be sent to stakeholders via email. An important question to ask while selecting any BI tool is, how good is the support? Panorama Necto has a group of highly knowledgeable and responsible support team members. The online video tutorials are very helpful and it's easy to learn this tool. This tool is very cost effective.
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Compared to other analytics functions of other Ticket Management System, Zendesk Explore is the easiest to learn. Moreover, the learning curve is high. Once you pick up the fundamentals, you will be able to create all types of analytic reports. In addition, if you know basic coding or SQL, you can create your own metrics and attributes to capture extremely specific elements such as the tickets that contain a certain word or etc.
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Pros
  • Comes with lot of option to modify and build the smart infographic. Uses innovative pictures and charts to create the dashboards
  • 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
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  • As with most "suite" products, if you already use other Zendesk features (Chat, Talk, etc), then Zendesk Explore adds an extra facet to the customer experience. The more we know about our clientele, the better we can understand/anticipate their needs.
  • I like that we can get as in-depth as we feel is necessary. For example, is just one customer having an issue? Or are many experiencing a similar problem? We can better rack this type of trend using Explore.
  • Our team can dive deep into the data based on exactly what we're looking for. If the marketing team wants a certain kind of segment, we can give them that info. If we want to sort by date or another set of parameters, we can do that as well.
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Cons
  • Panorama Necto does not have support for Linux or commodity hardware.
  • The big data technology support is very limited.
  • I would also appreciate if there was a personal edition that I could install on Windows home edition for my client to access the product.
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  • More detailed pieces of training on where to find datasets/queries.
  • Have demo reports to do live trainings; instead of watching videos.
  • Have a key as to what all of the datasets mean.
  • Have a pop-up that analyzes the data "looks like your csat dropped this week!" etc...
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Likelihood to Renew
Some features are very basic and sometimes you can't add your own SQL query for custom reports. For Macs and Blackberry users this application is not helpful. Non-languages are not supported in info-graphics. They need to improve their forecast analysis. Report sharing is limited among the portal users only
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Usability
It provides all the features that are required and some that are not the basic requirements, but they represent a great additional capabilities, not available within the similar products
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I rate Zendesk Explore 8 out of 10 for it's overall usability because it offers powerful reporting and analytics with an easy to navigate interface and intuitive dashboards. It helps improve customer satisfaction by providing valuable insights into ticket handling, agent performance and customer satisfaction. Though the complex query builder can be challenging for non technical users.
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Support Rating
Support provider are very attentive.
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Zendesk Community is extremely useful for Zendesk Explore beginners. The live support provided by Zendesk will also help a lot. If you don't know anything you can ask live support right away. However, one drawback of Zendesk Community and Support is the creation of complex reports on Zendesk Explore. Zendesk Community and Support cannot really help you much if you are trying to build a complex report as they are not a complete expert on it as well.
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Implementation Rating
Everything went smoothly, we didn't have any unexpected issues
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Alternatives Considered
In comparison with Pentaho Business Analytics, Panorama Necto 14 is providing similar features where it is distinguished through its provision of a suggestive analytics feature. This is fairly unique to the Panorama Necto 14 software where it analyzes information from various data sources and recommends solutions based on historical review
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Zendesk Explore stands out against Freshchat and Freshdesk for it's deeper analytics capabilities and seamless integration with Zendesk ecosystem. While Freshdesk offers reporting, it lacks on the same level of granular insights and customization that Zendesk Explore provides. Compared to Freshchat which focuses more on live chat and conversational analytics Zendesk Explore excels in historical trend analysis and comprehensive dashboarding. We choose Zendesk Explore for it's robust reporting and drill down capabilities.
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Return on Investment
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  • Positive impact of around 5 hours/week in Dashboard building and visualization
  • 10 hours from Product to review dashboards and find potential patterns
  • Enabler to find opportunities based on agents´ occupancy rates
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