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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.

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Top Performing Features

  • 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

Areas for Improvement

  • 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

Focus on Phocas

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.

Phocas Business Intelligence

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

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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

Phocas - A great tool for small businesses

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