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4.6/5 (26 avis)Phocas is a cloud-based, SaaS company specializing in data analytics for manufacturing, distribution and retail industries. We use our sector knowledge to consolidate essential business data from common ERP, CRM, and AP/AR systems to make it simple to access companywide insights through historical and predictive analysis.
A core philosophy at Phocas is to make our software easy-to-use, which has endeared us to a range of people in a company, non-technical and business analysts alike.
From day one with Phocas, users get tracking and reporting on essential KPIs and metrics that are specific to role and industry. But users can also customize to meet the unique reporting needs of their business. What users love about Phocas is it lets them explore their data, following their train of thought to find answers to their questions, unrestricted by canned reports and drill paths.
Phocas has thousands of customers globally. We’re experts in helping manufacturing, distribution, and retail customers turn their company data into action and results. We’ve been around for nearly 20 years and continue to grow because we’re always improving our software and listening to our customers.
From easy-to-read dashboards to on-demand training sessions, everything about Phocas is designed for ease-of-use.
Phocas is loved by users, with a 97% annual customer retention rate and 28 top rankings in BARC’s The BI Survey 18.
Avantages
The ease of use is great, and has brought so much benefit to our company. We are able to customize reports and dashboards to our needs as a company, which is a huge deal. Getting reports out to our field is easy and painless. We use subscriptions constantly, and that has made many employee's lives easier.
Inconvénients
I wish, still there was more ability to customize the report layouts. There are a lot of times when I have to create the report in Phocas, export it, and then do additional formatting in Excel. Also, the ability to download an entire dashboard would be amazing! It would make it so much easier than exporting each part individually.
It's a great tool at a great value and it keeps improving. If you don't know what you're doing this team is more than happy to help you get off the ground and train you and set up your initial databases, they'll help you succeed.
Avantages
The support team is great and very helpful. The software is very easy to learn for new users and people that aren't comfortable with an analytics tool. The tool is very intuitive and you can start doing analysis very quickly.
Inconvénients
The Custom function does add depth of functionality, but it's hard to do certain formulas like Maxs, Mins, or Standard Deviations. The amount of graphics and charts is increasing but it would still be nice to have more.
Avantages
The software is not only easy to use, and basically unbreakable, it is accessible almost anywhere. Hours have been saved thanks to the software. This is hands down the best software that i've ever used in my company.
Inconvénients
Minor gripes about the interface and specific features that could be easily fixed. Currently running an older version, so 2016 may fix some of them
Avantages
Phocas is very easy to use, very intuitive and provides excellent business information. It is relatively inexpensive per user and at times, worth its weight in gold!
Inconvénients
Nothing really. I am not a lover of the weekly/ monthly user subscription model as unless you make a point of regularly reviewing the usage, as your business changes sometimes you end up paying for users that have stopped using it. However that's really our problem rather than theirs.
Avantages
I have been a Phocas user for a couple of years. Being a SHIMS user, we are always looking for software to enhance it and make the end users lives easier. Phocas has been a great fit for us.
Inconvénients
We started using the CRM database about 6 months ago. After a somewhat rocky start, the salesforce is finally embracing the technology.
Get timely access to accurate data: current revenue and profit, against budgets, against prior year and against forecast
See your data presented in meaningful and easy-to-understand formats: grid, charts and dashboards
Dive from high level summaries to company-wide detail in seconds
Visualize metrics and performance scored the way you want it, against the variables you need
Gain insight into where customers are moving away from critical margin points, identify top customers and more
Manage sales team performance
Gut sense only goes so far in the business world. In order to make strategic decisions, organizations need to rely on actual, real-time data. Phocas is a cloud-based data discovery solution that provides businesses with 50 to 500+ employees with ways to make data-based decisions, uncover new sales opportunities, and improve operational efficiencies.
Designed for companies in the distribution, manufacturing and retail industries, Phocas offers analytical capabilities that turn complex data into understandable charts, graphs, and maps. Professionals with and without technical backgrounds can take advantage of business intelligence (BI) with Phocas. A few of the solution’s most important features include ad-hoc data discovery, dashboards, geospatial analysis, and data collection.
Phocas has been sold on a subscription basis since 1999, serving the needs of professional organizations looking to make smarter business decisions. The solution makes sense of large volumes of data, generating detailed visualizations, seamlessly uncovering sales opportunities, and improving business efficiencies for its professional users.
With a few clicks of the mouse, Phocas users are able to bring up sales data, inventories, forecasts, prices, profit margins, and budgets. They can also carry out ad-hoc interrogations, consolidate data, conduct modeling, and identify trends using geospatial analysis. This makes it easier for businesses to stay ahead of the curve, which is important in competitive business environments.
Phocas follows a user’s train of thought, quickly answering important business questions. In addition to answering those critical business questions, Phocas also uncovers new questions and opportunities that organizations should consider.
Start turning your own data into actual results using Phocas’ ad-hoc data discovery tools. With Phocas, you can visualize your data from multiple sources, including third-party CRM, sales, and EPS solutions. You can also interact with that data, and drill down to uncover insights or highlight problems that you may not otherwise know exist.
Phocas offers a full BI suite for mobile. This provides you with real-time data interrogation capabilities from any location worldwide, regardless of the device you’re using.
Phocas has kept its mobile interface simple to ensure that virtually anyone can take advantage of advanced BI features. From your tablet or smartphone, you can stream inventory vs. sales. If you’re visiting clients on the road, you can highlight key product groups. You can also create dashboards to share with your team using your mobile device.
Phocas summarizes its users’ data, enabling businesses to spot check for results to share amongst their teams. Any Phocas user can build an interactive dashboard, and then customize, collaborate, and revise it quickly without help from an IT department.
The dashboards you create with Phocas can get incredibly detailed, depending on your needs. Drill down to individual transactions or take broad strokes and look at the financial outlook for your industry at large. You can apply or remove restrictions to the data in your dashboard based on the access level of the user looking at the information.
Using Phocas, professionals are able to combine transactional and geospatial data on an easy-to-view map. It’s also possible to combine geographical visualizations with existing BI data. Phocas’ geospatial mapping tools can be used with OpenStreetMap or Google’s API.
Map your data, and Phocas will immediately provide you with geospatial analysis. For example, geospatial analysis features are useful when you want to plot things like profitability or inventory on maps. Phocas allows you to pinpoint specific locations or use heat maps to show data for multiple locations at once.
Organizations should contact Phocas for information about specific integration capabilities.
Phocas has been sold on a subscription basis since 1999. Monthly fees include support, maintenance, and software updates. The company has a 97% customer retention rate and a 132% revenue retention rate.
Voici quelques-unes des questions fréquentes sur Phocas.
Types de licences disponibles pour Phocas :
version d'essai gratuite: Non disponible
Fonctionnalités du logiciel Phocas :
Utilisateurs habituels du logiciel Phocas :
Grandes entreprises, Entreprises de taille moyenne, PME
Langues dans lesquelles Phocas est disponible :
anglais
Nous n'avons pas d'informations sur les types de licences de Phocas.
Nous n'avons pas d'informations sur les appareils pris en charge par Phocas.
Applications s'intégrant à Phocas :
Dynamics 365, HubSpot Marketing, MYOB Essentials, Microsoft Dynamics GP, Microsoft Dynamics NAV, Microsoft Excel, NetSuite, NetSuite Inventory Management, Retail Express, SAP Business One
Ressources d'aide disponibles pour Phocas :
FAQ, Forum, Base de connaissances, Support en ligne, Support téléphonique, Tutoriels vidéo
