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| Overall Rating: |  (5.0) |
Features: | (5.0) |
Support: | (4.8) |
| Ease of Use: | (4.7) |
Quality / Stability: | (4.7) |
Price: | (4.8) |
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Great product - Version: 5.5.0, 5/4/2008 11:39AM PST
Marquedej
I have used Panorama as a personal tool for many years. It is an excellent database tool that is fast! It has a very complete programming/scripting language ... and if there's a feature that is missing, it gives you full access to your favorite scripting language: AppleScript, Perl, and Ruby (and others)
The documentation is nearly too complete. Every aspect of the program is addressed in the documentation, which means it sometimes takes some "wading" to find an answer. However, anything that cannot be found in the docs, is quickly addressed on ProVUE's mailing list where hundreds of Panorama users, including the author Jim, selflessly answer questions.
Great product. Thank you, ProVUE!
The documentation is nearly too complete. Every aspect of the program is addressed in the documentation, which means it sometimes takes some "wading" to find an answer. However, anything that cannot be found in the docs, is quickly addressed on ProVUE's mailing list where hundreds of Panorama users, including the author Jim, selflessly answer questions.
Great product. Thank you, ProVUE!
FAST, powerful, intuitive number cruncher - Version: 5.5.0, 5/4/2008 11:32AM PST
Rick Barron
I've never found a better program for crunching the numbers. I can input a 10,000-record database in about two seconds, and it appears in columns that make it easy to sort. The 10,000 records sort in about a second, and the menu selections make it easy to sort, then sort-within, which means it keeps the previous sort, like states for example, and then sort cities within that and so on to the nth degree.
Once I have the info sorted the way I want, click Group and voila!, it gives me totals by state, or month, or customer, or whatever I'm trying to find. Although it does support complex forms if I'm inclined to make them, the beauty is that I can get at the information I need in an instant, without programming. I do use simple forms, and don't feel required to spend hours creating macros, although I do use the handy "text funnels" to extract the info I need from the data. Also, inputting the data by hand is helped greatly by simple commands, such as initial caps, phone number or other formats, etc.
There's much, much more to Panorama than I need to use, but for me, it performs essential tasks with incredible speed and elegance.
Once I have the info sorted the way I want, click Group and voila!, it gives me totals by state, or month, or customer, or whatever I'm trying to find. Although it does support complex forms if I'm inclined to make them, the beauty is that I can get at the information I need in an instant, without programming. I do use simple forms, and don't feel required to spend hours creating macros, although I do use the handy "text funnels" to extract the info I need from the data. Also, inputting the data by hand is helped greatly by simple commands, such as initial caps, phone number or other formats, etc.
There's much, much more to Panorama than I need to use, but for me, it performs essential tasks with incredible speed and elegance.
Currently our main Panorama database has over 2600 entries, each one having multiple products, prices, tax and shipping yet searching the database or manipulating the numbers happens instantly! Macros are generated by recording the user’s moves and then are executed at lighting speed. What could be simpler? Panorama’s ease use and speed make my life so much easier. I recommend it to anyone running a business of any size.
-Scott August, Cedar Mesa Music