Logi Info (Logi Analytics Platform) is a mixed bag, so go in with eyes open about what type of product it actually is
Use Cases and Deployment Scope
Our company uses Logi Info (Logi Analytics Platform) to provide dashboards, reports, embedded visualisations, and help customers make their own self-service reporting. We primarily use two products in the Logi Analytics suite, Logi Info and Logi Composer. Logi Info is a web-app builder with XML-based config files and a series of visualisation widgets. We embed these Logi Info items into our core application, primarily with iframes. Logi Composer is a more traditional BI style app where you make dashboards, reports, schedule reports, etc. - in this case, it is a separate portal/site for our customers to use.
Pros
- Fast visualisation
- Scheduled reporting
- Putting user-specific custom variables into connection strings or queries to have individual reports tailor to many specific circumstances
Cons
- Logi Info (Logi Analytics Platform) is NOT a BI tool, and there's a big misapprehension in many places that it is. Instead, it is a tool for making IIS-based web applications that happens to provide a series of BI-related widgets. It's not user-friendly, not intuitive, not awesome, and still needs a web developer to make CSS, JavaScript, and all kinds of things.
- Logi Composer offers multiple 'accounts' to partition customer accounts and customer-created reports, BUT all the reports, visuals, data sources, and other items we make are account-bound too. So if we have a standard library of reports we have to either duplicate them for every account (and keep them updated), or we have to have all customers in one account and maintain permissions to hide their reports from each other.
- Logi Analytics recently acquired another company / BI tool but don't package it as part of Logi Symphony - instead they want an extra fee if you're interested in checking it out.
- While Logi Composer allows you to create custom visualisations, the tutorials online are out of date and still refer to ZoomData, the company Logi acquired which became Logi Composer.
Return on Investment
- Logi Info (Logi Analytics Platform) helped the company embed visualisations into a core app, separating that functionality from the core dev team to a specialised team of BI people (who had to then learn/do front-end web dev to make Logi Info look ok)
- Logi Composer instead was a much better experience, allowing us to provide a full-featured customer-facing BI portal where users can rapidly create and schedule reports and dashboards
Usability
Alternatives Considered
Tableau Desktop, Qlik Analytics Platform, SAS Viya and Microsoft Power BI
Other Software Used
Snowflake, Hevo Data, Microsoft SQL Server, Microsoft Power BI
