see category panorama software . panorama software type privately held company industry business intelligence software founded 1993 founder rony ross founded the original co. in 1993 ; assets were sold to microsoft in 1996 ; the current company was founded in 2003 by janice anderson and rony ross headquarters toronto canada area served global key people eynav azarya ceo rony ross executive chairman and cto oudi antebi vp strategy and marketing kobi averbuch vp r & d products novaview website http www.panorama.com panorama software is a canadian software and consulting company specializing in business intelligence . the company was founded by rony ross in israel in 1993 ; it relocated its worldwide headquarters to toronto canada in 2003 . 1 panorama sold its olap technology to microsoft in 1996 which was built into microsoft olap services and later sql server analysis services an integrated component of the microsoft sql server platform . panorama supports over 1 600 customers worldwide in industries such as financial services manufacturing retail healthcare telecommunications and life sciences . panorama has a wide eco system of partners in 30 countries and maintains offices throughout north america emea and asia . contents 1 products 1.1 necto 2 panorama and microsoft 3 references 4 external links products edit necto edit the company s main product is a business intelligence suite named panorama necto . deemed a business intelligence 3.0 platform with enhanced user interfaces increased user adoption and better self service for reduced operational costs necto presents data in a socially enabled setting . necto offers the users self serve data mining and report generation allowing them to generate their own custom views of the data without having to wait on someone else to run a report for them . it lets users create collaborative workboards and visual presentations to provide better context as they put together ad hoc business teams to address internal issues . 2 the users are able to follow other leaders in the organization and discover those who are attempting to analyze similar data sets . the company contends this focus on social analysis leads starting with business data and connecting it with the people who are involved in this data . necto is a bi application based upon understanding of user behavior one click reporting and collaborative decision making . panorama positions the product upon three strengths of social business intelligence insights and intuitive self service . the platform supports the social sharing of data similar to sharing found on consumer oriented social networking sites . data analysis is treated as conversations which can themselves be followed and analyzed . panorama encourages necto enterprise users to form cross departmental teams based on data research behaviors . the solution introduces intelligence to the bi engine through tracking of user behavior and making corresponding adjustments . 3 necto is an end to end bi suite that includes analytics custom reporting intuitive dashboards and integration with microsoft office sharepoint . the solution is compatible running on top of multiple data sources including spreadsheets in memory olap or relational databases . integration on microsoft azure and optimization with microsoft sql server 2012 platform is also available . necto also integrates with sharepoint and adds a social connection to this integration combining structured data from necto s analysis services with unstructured data from sharepoint . 4 it can be scaled up to manage thousands of users and several terabytes of data . panorama and microsoft edit panorama software is the original developer of the online analytical processing olap technology that microsoft acquired in 1996 and rebranded as sql server analysis services an integrated component of the microsoft sql server platform . since this acquisition panorama has actively offered solutions to support the microsoft platform as a microsoft gold isv competency partner . whether on premises or as a software as a service panorama integrates with microsoft to meet the demands from the largest of enterprise users . 5 references edit patricia zyska 30 may 2003 . microsoft expanding bi horizons . it world canada . retrieved 2007 05 24 . sherman aliza . necto offers socially enabled business intelligence . necto offers socially enabled business intelligence . gigaom . retrieved 3 january 2012 . rogers christopher . you got social networking in my bi solution panorama s ross discusses necto . you got social networking in my bi solution panorama s ross discusses necto . it in canada . retrieved 3 january 2012 . maschiach ella . panorama necto . panorama necto . ella maschiach s bi blog . retrieved 9 january 2012 . panorama software . panorama software . microsoft . external links edit panorama software web site extending the reach of business intelligence dm review july 2003 profile of rony ross and history of panorama 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