We performed a comparison between Microsoft Power BI and Zoho Analytics based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Reporting solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."The user experience is easy. Users get familiar with it quickly."
"What Power BI is, is a whole collection of templates of small amounts of data that can be used to do something for a real world project, that can be easily set up and become the business intelligence environment or a data warehouse for a large amount of data, for a real world customer. That's what is remarkable."
"Very intuitive and easy to use."
"The best thing about this solution is that it is very user friendly. It is interactive in terms of visualizations. It is very eye-catching, and it attracts users. There are a lot of options to visualize the data in different drafts and views. I have used different visualization tools, and I found Power BI to be more efficient in terms of performance, user-friendliness, and ease of use."
"There is a feature in Microsoft BI that allows JSON data to SQL on the dashboards effectively and quickly."
"The interface is very fluid."
"It is very well integrated with other Microsoft products, including PowerApps and Excel, as well as Access, so it fits well into our workflow."
"The solution is easy to use and flexible."
"Zoho Analytics is the best software for giving reports to customers and we can create any report that is required."
"We moved the data from Zoho Creator to Zoho Analytics and created reports."
"It's a very strong analytics tool."
"The integration interface is very easy to use and allows you to directly connect to a variety of APIs."
"Scheduling of reports and dashboards is the most valuable feature of Zoho Analytics."
"It provides insights into leads, information about the team and about various sales activities. The graphical representations in the form of charts is excellent."
"The solution’s dashboard is very good."
"We can create advanced-level reports with the tool. We can get data from different Zoho applications and also from other third-party applications. We can create schedules for syncing data from third parties to Zoho Analytics. We can also use table queries for getting data from more than one table."
"The smart phone application could be improved, along with better graphics and faster updating."
"When there are large amounts of data being processed there are additional tools needed to handle it."
"The maps in Power BI could be improved. You deal with many maps over the years, like maps of America and Saudi Arabia. The maps aren't detailed enough, and there aren't enough visualization tools. Whenever I want to use a map, I struggle with choosing the right visualization."
"The UI looks awkward once the graphs have been generated in the console. This is what Microsoft can work on."
"The look is simple, and could be a little more professional."
"The graphic interface could be better."
"The DAX in Microsoft BI is quite difficult."
"One of the more difficult things to do is to export some of the data from Power BI to Excel."
"The solution does not provide call center facilities for customer support."
"A higher degree of artificial intelligence could be included in this solution. The data and overall insights could be improved."
"The hourly pricing needs improvement."
"The navigation on the interface is not intuitive."
"The support for Zoho Analytics is pathetic."
"I like the solution's Query Table feature which helps me write SQL queries. We can get data from different tables and then use it to create reports."
"There should be more types of graphics available for use in the reports."
"It would be great to have more user input fields which can be used on dashboards."
Microsoft Power BI is ranked 1st in Reporting with 297 reviews while Zoho Analytics is ranked 10th in Reporting with 23 reviews. Microsoft Power BI is rated 8.0, while Zoho Analytics is rated 8.2. The top reviewer of Microsoft Power BI writes "A complete ecosystem with an builtin ETL tool, good integrations with python and R, and support of DAX and Power Query (M languages)". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Zoho Analytics writes "An easy-to-set up solution that helps in the scheduling of reports and dashboards". Microsoft Power BI is most compared with Tableau, Amazon QuickSight, KNIME, Domo and Oracle OBIEE, whereas Zoho Analytics is most compared with Apache Superset, Tableau, Looker, Qlik Sense and Amazon QuickSight. See our Microsoft Power BI vs. Zoho Analytics report.
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