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 scalability is good. We have 20 people in my organization using this solution and plan to increase usage."
"It integrates better with other Microsoft products. It is very easy to use and has very powerful visualizations. It has also got a lot of development going on."
"It allows individuals to do the analysis themselves."
"We find the solution offers good stability."
"Microsoft BI's most valuable features are the user interface, which is easy to use and light."
"Tech support is very helpful."
"The solution is easy to set up and implement."
"When we are introducing Microsoft BI to our clients, if they're familiar with Excel, the transition phase will be much easier for them. They can easily switch from Microsoft Excel to Microsoft BI. The core foundation or the base technology is the same in both tools. There are a few limitations in Microsoft Excel, and this is where Microsoft BI comes in."
"The data source is the most valuable feature as it can perform any function."
"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 solution’s dashboard is very good."
"Zoho Analytics's most valuable feature is the ability to provide excellent analytics through a single platform."
"Ask Zia is a great feature that I use to quickly decide what improvements I need to make in order to present the data that I want to show."
"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's a very strong analytics tool."
"It seems that the solution could use more analytics to help users draw more contextual business insights. Right now, you need other solutions for that."
"It should be more user-friendly. There are very small or tiny icons that you need to move very carefully. If you go a little bit up and down, some of the values change. Its user interface should be improved. It should be like Tableau. Its performance is also slow and should be improved. I definitely feel some sort of speed issues with Power BI. The integration of Excel with Power BI would also be good."
"Powerpoints are not available in the report server."
"It needs more graphics and overlays."
"The solution could improve the extraction and transformation of data. For example, you transform the data and then send it to Microsoft BI without having to use your own API. We are only providing the API to Power BI, and then Power BI is doing the job."
"I would like to be able to use SQL properly within the reports and allow multiple people to work on the same report at the same time. If one person is working on it, then it causes issues for anyone else wanting to make reports."
"They are improving it all the time. What would be nice is if they could respond to feature requests more quickly. They can provide faster support for new features."
"The interface could be improved."
"In terms of improvement, they have a limited number of graphs available in their store. They should come up with more graph style forms. They should have more charts and at the same time, you can't create panels like with Microsoft BA."
"This solution does not support manufacturing facilities."
"They should provide white labeling with a cheaper option. I know they have a white labeling feature in which I can white label Zoho Analytics with my company theme, logo, and URL, but it seems a little expensive. If they can make it cheaper, it would be great. The same is applicable to Tableau."
"It would be great to have more user input fields which can be used on dashboards."
"The navigation on the interface is not intuitive."
"The solution does not provide call center facilities for customer support."
"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 is a limitation that we cannot create more than 300 columns in a worksheet on Zoho Analytics."
Microsoft Power BI is ranked 1st in Reporting with 297 reviews while Zoho Analytics is ranked 10th in Reporting with 24 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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