Phocas Business Intelligence

Score8 out of 10

9 Reviews and Ratings

What is Phocas Business Intelligence?

Phocas helps users discover data and provides results in real time. It is designed for non-technical users and delivers a simple yet powerful analytical capability that quickly turns data into a chart, graph or map. It brings up data on local, regional or global sales, inventory, forecasts, prices, profit margins, budgets and more.

Phocas, based in the United Kingdom, is a business intelligence firm with offices in the UK, the United States, and Australia. The vendor says that by offering an innovative data discovery solution, it has maintained a 97 percent customer retention rate.

Categories & Use Cases

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Drill-down analysis
Drill down analysis is the ability to get to a further level of detail by going deeper into the hierarchy.
Category average: 8.4
Report sharing and collaboration
Report sharing and collaboration is the ability to easily share reports with others.
Category average: 8.5
Publish to PDF
Category average: 8.5

Report Versioning
Report versioning is the assignment of version numbers to each version of a report to help in tracking.
Category average: 8.4
Pre-built visualization formats (heatmaps, scatter plots etc.)
Pre-built visualization formats are canned visualization types that can be selected to visualize different kinds of data.
Category average: 8.1
Predictive Analytics
Predictive Analytics is the ability to build forecasting models based on existing data sets.
Category average: 7.8

Kenny McGarrity

IT Infrastructure Manager in Information Technology at Pace Supply (1001-5000 employees employees)

Pros

Custom reports are simple to create.
The ability to manage users and their dashboards is solid.
Easy to navigate web interface makes the software accessible from anywhere.

Cons

Daily data set dumps can take up a large amount of space.

Verified User

Technician in Information Technology (201-500 employees employees)

Pros

Phocas is great at drilling down data, getting specific information, and presenting it in a report.
Phocas can be used to view up to the minute data gathered from the database.
It allows the user to create and view different type of dashboards very easily.

Cons

Phocas needs to make it easier to connect to different types of databases.
The data in Phocas needs to be updated faster in some cases.
It needs to provide functions to create better charts and graphs.

Alternatives Considered

Tableau Online and Microsoft Power BI

Other Software Used

Microsoft Power BI, Tableau Desktop, Microsoft BI

Verified User

Manager in Information Technology (201-500 employees employees)

Pros

Easy to drill down data
Have data from multiple systems in one place
Has nice dashboards that can be built from your customer data

Cons

Print of dashboards needs a bit of attention
Have a single-sign-on option

Return on Investment

It has given our business a view on data
We can access it from anywhere
You can have multiple dashboards for different information

Alternatives Considered

BIME

Other Software Used

Netsuite SuiteCommerce, NetSuite ERP, Google Drive

Usability

Olivia Gonsalves View profile

HR Generalist in Human Resources at WHCI PLUMBING SUPPLY CO (51-200 employees employees)

Pros

Detailed tracking of sales numbers
Timely updates - data refreshed every day
Ability to work with our ERP system and extract data

Cons

Ability to build reports
Could be more user friendly

Other Software Used

Paycor

Tableau Desktop

QlikView

Yellowfin

Phocas Business Intelligence

What is Phocas Business Intelligence?

Categories & Use Cases

Media

Key Features

Top Performing Features

Drill-down analysis

Report sharing and collaboration

Publish to PDF

Areas for Improvement

Report Versioning

Pre-built visualization formats (heatmaps, scatter plots etc.)

Predictive Analytics

Reviews

Focus on Phocas

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Cons