What do you like best about Simba Embedded Analytics?
After having tested several other leading embedded BI platforms we were convinced that Exago satisfies many of our requirements. Some of my favorite items are:
- Native support for multitenancy via a wide variety of patterns.
- Flexible user, roles, and permissions management, both via UI and API.
- Excellent exporting capabilities into Excel (better than all the platforms we have tested).
- User interface is comfortable and modern, and while not sporting super sexy visualizations, they are always improving.
- Easily embeddable as an iframe or a direct page, with a lot of flexibility on styling and theming.
- Great scheduling capabilities, by far surpassing the SSRS user experience.
- Convenient and straightforward pricing methodology, with a predictive cost that does not depend upon variables such as users, customers, servers, etc.
- Multiple releases throughout the year, so bugs usually don't stay in the system too long after being discovered.
- Great webinars and "advanced users" labs every few weeks, covering non-trivial use cases.
- Exago does not impose its storage or persistence mechanisms upon the hosting platform. The implementer gets to decide how everything is stored, if you'd like to scale or change beyond the "stock" options. This is both an advantage and a hindrance, depending on far you'd like to take the system.
- And last but certainly not least, there is a phenomenal and passionate team standing behind the product. I really cannot stress how important this is for this kind of product. You will be amazed at how quickly they can adapt their "language" to your line of business and usually help you within a couple of hours do things that might take you a lot longer. The post-sale experience is as good as the pre-sale and the handoff throughout the sale process is very smooth. It is exceptionally uncommon in this industry and I hope that others take notice. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
What do you dislike about Simba Embedded Analytics?
- Do not be fooled by the simplicity of what you see. It is not going to be a walk in the park, especially if your SaaS has many hundreds of different tables, types of users, and lots of conflicting use-cases. You absolutely need to have a strong, business oriented and a fairly technical person (or team) that will spearhead this implementation. Exago's tremendous flexibility is also a source of its complexities. You need to get into the weeds in order to determine what is best for your environment, and it is often not trivial. Be prepared for some learning curve, but if you dedicate an honest effort, you will see that it is very doable to have excellent results in relatively short time.
- Although the documentation is very good, you need to have a clear plan on how to "map" your environment to the Exago landscape and have a clear set of links in the documentation with which you need to become intimately familiar. We were largely unsuccessful in our deployment until we did just that. However, once we invested a little bit of brainpower into this process, we had started gaining tremendous momentum and now the project is a major success.
- The cross tabs (pivot) reports are lacking some computational features, but there are always improvements in this area and they are always welcome. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
