Phocas Software vs Wolfram Mathematica: Which is a better fit?

The ease to use and train employees on this BI tool makes it best in the market. The power of building your own databases, customizing reports and the level of customer service is outstanding.

It was a bit difficult to understand the Sync/dbdesigner part since documentation on this was a bit vague.

I can show someone the basics in 5 to 10 minutes and they are off and running creating favorites and dashboards. The software is updated every month and their support and documentation is outstanding.

We have requested enhancements and we have some support issues that are submitted. But we have no visibility , (web portal), to review what we already submitted.

Additionally, the powerful and comprehensive capabilities of the software enable businesses to gain valuable insights into their operations and performance.

So much at once is hard to take in and learn all Phocas can give you. Too much data can be overwhelming.

Overall, I am genuinely happy with Phocas. I'm the kind of person who gets excited about report customization and flexibility within the way we structure our data.

They also don't have to rely on standard out of the box reports that can be limited in scope.

Aniruddha A

PhD student

It’s amazing when you don’t need to write code and just need to analyse some data. It helps in speeding up work and great for college studies.

Failure to have knowledge about the errors that arise for the analysis of established models.

Wolfram is a great way to solve pretty much any kind of equation. It's really easy to use and produces great results with a lot of information with the results.

I had to call quite a few times before getting an answer which at the end turned out to be complete​ nonsense. I 've just acquired a license for my own use and install it on a MAC.

Anand A

Research Scholar

I am very happy with the product. It helps me in my research on mathematical modeling.

At least medium programming knowledge required to deal with highly complex system. Tooolboxs and its documentations is weak.

The ability to solve symbolic mathematical equations is better compared to any other software. The graphing and data analysis capabilities are up to par.

While Mathematica doesn't have the worst error checking I've seen in some programming languages, it lacks on-the-fly error checking.