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Knowage vs Panorama Necto comparison

 

Comparison Buyer's Guide

Executive SummaryUpdated on Jun 3, 2026

Review summaries and opinions

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:
 

Categories and Ranking

Knowage
Ranking in BI (Business Intelligence) Tools
34th
Ranking in Reporting
21st
Average Rating
7.6
Reviews Sentiment
6.7
Number of Reviews
18
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
Panorama Necto
Ranking in BI (Business Intelligence) Tools
33rd
Ranking in Reporting
20th
Average Rating
8.2
Reviews Sentiment
7.2
Number of Reviews
52
Ranking in other categories
Data Visualization (19th)
 

Mindshare comparison

As of August 2026, in the BI (Business Intelligence) Tools category, the mindshare of Knowage is 1.1%, up from 0.5% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Panorama Necto is 1.3%, up from 0.2% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
BI (Business Intelligence) Tools Mindshare Distribution
ProductMindshare (%)
Panorama Necto1.3%
Knowage1.1%
Other97.6%
BI (Business Intelligence) Tools
 

Featured Reviews

AM
Margin Assurance Analyst at a comms service provider with 1,001-5,000 employees
A stable open source suite for modern business analytics with a useful replication feature
It would be better if more resources were available to help us learn how to use it. I wanted to use Knowage for a more extended period, but learning materials around the product were not really available and were not really straightforward. I've also seen inconsistencies between versions. For example, under the tools, especially in the cockpit, the way you create reports is now different. You will also find some configurations within a particular state, like a line chart, which differs from version to version. I think consistency is an essential feature in a product, especially for business intelligence products.
AS
Programmer Analyst at Tech Services Company
The infographics feature is unique to Necto. However, they need better tutorials and community support.
The best feature I liked is the infographics which is great and it's best unique feature. It helps developers use existing infographics from the library or they can create their own and present to end users It's quite easy to create reports in Necto using the infographics feature. Collaboration…

Quotes from Members

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:
 

Pros

"The embedding feature is great."
"It's a great product. It has a lot more features than many other BI tools. You can get the most out of machine learning, the best connectivity to Python, and it cuts across enterprise sections."
"Being able to schedule necessary jobs needed for production jobs and programming run times"
"In terms of ROI, much better than any other solution when it offer full fledged features in open source, planned to have direct contact with SpagoBI for better support."
"SpagoBI makes delivering reports to our clients very easy."
"The concept of engines is quite powerful allowing the user to work with report authoring/provisioning tools of their choice."
"Instead of just relying on emails to disperse our reports, having a central server to do this for us has helped our organization and has pushed us into a better place."
"It improves sales and products, which motivates employees."
"It is an intuitive and jazzy infographics tool which is easy to use, trained, and deploy and it is very cost effective and generates high ROI for small and mid-sized companies."
"Excellent in memory performance, return results with clicks, matchless click to collaborate features, just initiate discussion on data points and context, connect relevant users and dashboards and explore suggestive auto insight."
"I would definitely recommend this product to others as it provided ease of use and good reports."
"The work boards are a great way to provide the management a clear, concise, one source of truth and progress of business in one snapshot."
"It provides great infographics."
"This infographic solution spawns amazing obvious sales reports and you can check many aspects of work of your sales team."
"Panorama Necto provides a governed and guided data discovery platform, with auto-generated dashboards as a very good starting point for data discovery, simple and vibrant infographics that can be customized to a cell level, a handy collaborating feature to initiate discussions with relevant users, and good performance."
"It has smart computing abilities to deliver some of the complex analytical requirements such as what-if analysis, pinpointing the actual issues and side by side comparison of business factors."
 

Cons

"We expected the community to be bigger than what it currently is."
"The demands of some jobs would slow Spago and lock the site, preventing any other job from processing."
"Tomcat configuration was tricky in earlier versions."
"Unfortunately, many interesting features do not work when you are using a custom database for storing the metadata."
"Many things need to be improved, most of all robustness."
"Development of SpagoBI has now been moved to Knowage. Users interested in further developments of the platform will have to look there."
"Yes, using Mobile and Desktop Editions, we would sometimes need to restart the service."
"There are additional features such as Data Integration, Data Visualization, MobileBI, Cloud BI, Data enrichment and massaging should be implemented in the next release."
"No Outlook or Lotus support. No support for languages other than English."
"Scheduling and publishing is a bit complex task."
"Needs more ETL and data transformation support."
"Initially when one starts with the tool there are so many options on the console (it is a bit cluttered), one is a bit confused."
"I feel scheduling is not that simple."
"I think the dashboard is not that catchy for the first time."
"Limited support for big data analytics."
"Improvement in integration with Big Data"
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

"It allows the implementation of an effective reporting system using internal skills at a limited upfront cost."
"Knowage is open-source, and an enterprise edition is also available."
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Construction Company
25%
Manufacturing Company
7%
University
7%
Marketing Services Firm
7%
Construction Company
18%
Outsourcing Company
14%
Manufacturing Company
9%
Comms Service Provider
9%
 

Company Size

By reviewers
Large Enterprise
Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business7
Midsize Enterprise6
Large Enterprise6
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business14
Midsize Enterprise5
Large Enterprise32
 

Comparisons

 

Also Known As

SpagoBI
Panorama Necto
 

Overview

 

Sample Customers

FIAT Group, Italian air navigation service provider, Ministry of Education and Science of the Russian Federation, Telecom Italia, ASL Genovese, San Giovanni Battista University Hospital
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