Microsoft + Panorama Software

Founded in 1993, Panorama Software is the original developer of the OLAP technology that was acquired my Microsoft in 1996, which was rebranded as SQL Server Analysis Services and integrated into the SQL Server platform. Since that sale, Panorama has been a close and strategic Microsoft partner, delivering the only Business Intelligence application that is specifically designed for the Microsoft platform.

Panorama has focused on delivering the best suite of BI solutions available for SQL Server Analysis Services. Panorama Necto™ seamlessly integrates with SharePoint and empowers the platform with a Social Decision Making layer.  By connecting structured data from Analysis Services and unstructured data from SharePoint, Necto adds additional value to the Microsoft stack. Necto is also available on Microsoft Azure and is optimized for the Denali platform, supporting both OLAP and BISM modes.

Panorama’s BI solution also improves performance and scalability of the Microsoft platform through advanced caching and connection pooling. Panorama Server is the most integrated BI solution on the Microsoft platform, with BI delivery options for Microsoft SharePoint, dashboards, mySAP portal, Microsoft Excel, Microsoft PowerPoint, Microsoft Visio and more.

Panorama’s solution is the only pure MDX-based business intelligence solution that works natively on Microsoft platforms, models and data. Unlike other business intelligence solutions, Panorama eliminates the need for data extraction or an additional metadata layer.

Solution

Panorama Necto is a comprehensive BI product suite specifically designed for the Microsoft BI platform. Leading the Business Intelligence 3.0 revolution, Necto represents a new generation of BI solutions that introduces a unique way to connect data, insights, and people in the organization. Necto is the first BI solution that leverages social decision making and automated insights to enable users gain insights more quickly, more efficiently, and with greater relevancy.

With Panorama Necto, users can sift through large volumes of data to gain insights or identify problems. Necto’s Advanced Analytics provides the most powerful and feature rich OLAP analytical tool available today. With features such as advanced exceptions, custom formulas, advanced slicing and filtering controls, parameters, custom MDX wizards and much more, Panorama Advance Analytics gives power to analysts that need to analyze data without any limitation while making the analysis process as intuitive as possible with drag and drop, right click menus and WISYWYG user interface.

Key capabilities include:

  • Leveraging one click exceptions to quickly pinpoint trends and challenges at the lowest level of detail.

  • Automatically identifying root cause of a problem for faster action.

  • Selecting, filtering, and highlighting subsets of data for further analysis, based on wizards and rules designed for business users.

  • Adding sliders set to predefined filter values, including the top 5, 10, or 25 sales representatives or accounts.

  • Proactively identify business trends and challenges. Determine KPIs to compare actual performance against determined goals.

  • Extend business information to customers, suppliers, partners and other key stakeholders

  • Guided analyses to enable users find the information they are looking for even if they don’t know where to find it

  • Supports a wide range of export options, including Excel, PowerPoint, PDF, and email.

Panorama is the first independent software vendor to expand its SQL Server Analysis Services support to natively connect to and extend PowerPivot, the innovative in-memory data platform. Panorama Necto adds unique self-service BI capabilities, such as an intuitive web interface, advanced analytics, and a data-level security layer on top PowerPivot, elevating PowerPivot to a complete BI solution and making it ready for enterprise wide deployment.

 

 

 

 

 

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