Phocas Reviews in June 2025: User Ratings, Pros & Cons

New Phocas lover & Pronto Hater

What do you like best? Plug and play was a fantastic term that has been around since the commodore 64, but never have I seen it actually be the case with software. Need one say anymore. What do you dislike? That I didn't know about it earlier, that I spent so much wasted time trying to get the same information from Pronto using COGNOS. And the money I wasted with COGNOS,,, ouch! Recommendations to others considering the product If you have Pronto, forget about COGNOS, it will do your ...

great presentaion and fast results make our users very happy with phocas

What do you like best? speed and control - user access control, ease of administration What do you dislike? nothing really, looking forward to getting more data into phocas to use Recommendations to others considering the product do it now, users will be rapt. What business problems are you solving with the product? What benefits have you realized? identify opportunities from developing trends much faster than and easier than before

Business information made easy

What do you like best? All the required information is at hand with an interface that is not complicated. What do you dislike? I haven't had any issues that diminishes the experience. What business problems are you solving with the product? What benefits have you realized? Access to customer and product history.

Phocas was a true eye-opener!

What do you like best? What I liked best about Phocas was its ability to easily mine data on how my branches are doing sales, profit and even how they are trending over a multitude of different time periods (including versus previous year, rolling 12 months and quarterly. This process would have taken me hours of time per week versus the hour or so it takes to see ALL of the information for each respective branch. What do you dislike? The only gripe I had with my Phocas training thus far ...

Great training for a useful product

What do you like best? I haven't used it much yet, but I like the idea of marrying together several different databases in our system to create unique views of data. The convenience of saving and sharing those queries will be most helpful. What do you dislike? Not to the fault of Phocas but our company has yet to purchase one of the main sets of data that I need to do my job. What business problems are you solving with the product? What benefits have you realized? nothing yet

Easy to use intelligent software

What do you like best? What I like most about Phocas is the ability to take our data and put it into a simple format that can be easily shared and analyzed by any user. The dashboards allow the user to be intuitive and make the right decisions quickly. All the information you need to know about the business can be designed to be right at your fingertips. What do you dislike? For the most part Phocas has everything we need to analyse our data. I would like to see the e-mail function ...

Phocas Software Review

What do you like best? So much information in just a few clicks! Phocas is so easy to use. What do you dislike? I'm sure there are things that will come up, but so far I haven't found anything that I dislike about using this software. What business problems are you solving with the product? What benefits have you realized? Getting information out to our sales team that can help them to be more productive and successful! The time it has saved me in running reports and analyzing data has ...

CFO, The NEFCO Corporation

What do you like best? This BI program allows us to efficiently evaluate Customers, Inventory and Purchases. The new and improved dash boards will allow for expanded quick views into the company, customers and job sites. What do you dislike? The one downfall would be limited reporting formatting for Financial reporting (i.e. Management Profit and loss reports. Recommendations to others considering the product This is a very easy product for end users to learn and begin to use. The ...

Phocas Rocks!

What do you like best? Phocas provides an intuitive tool to extract pertinent business data and spot trends. It has been useful particularly in analyzing sales data to spot trends and buying patterns. The sales force loves the dashboards that were constructed and uses them on a daily basis to monitor sales activities. It allows them to proactive in managing customer relationships. What do you dislike? That it does not provide "real time" updates of data. Recommendations to others ...

Let Phocas help you Focus on your Business

What do you like best? The ability to Phocas down as you research. Phocas gives you the ability to ask the questions as you go....and find the answers. This is the best addition to software that has an antiquated reporting system. I will be rolling it out to my Sales and Management team by 4th quarter of 2015. What do you dislike? The only thing that I dislike is the learning curve. It is so hard to see the potential of this software and not be able to utilize it instantly. Training is ...