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 BI (Business Intelligence) Tools solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."The most valuable feature is definitely the visual aspect and the DAX capabilities to virtually do anything."
"It's similar to Excel, but it's much more powerful than Excel."
"It is really flexible. The charts and reports are really nice. You have the flexibility of self-service."
"Reports, dashboards, and visualizations are most valuable."
"Key features are its dashboard functionality and ease of integration with various data sources."
"I like all the tools in Microsoft BI because they all have different purposes. There are a lot of people using Microsoft BI, and everybody is using it. The users have adapted well to the technology."
"There is also a chart store where we can download charts, which is extremely useful."
"It's quite flexible, and it's easy to create reports using this system. It is very graphic and very user friendly."
"We use the solution for financial and sales analytics. It brings data from our IT incident management tool. Hence, we have three business use cases for IT support, sales and financials."
"The solution’s dashboard is very good."
"The initial setup is straightforward."
"The data source is the most valuable feature as it can perform any function."
"It's a very strong analytics tool."
"The front end of this solution including the graph generation using SQL has been most useful."
"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 most valuable feature of Zoho Analytics is its connectivity with ERP systems and the functionality to set up different fields for leads."
"Needs single sign-on."
"Microsoft has made a lot of progress with Power BI in the past couple of years, but there is still some room for improvement. For example, Integration is one area they could work on. They are adding more integration with other Microsoft tools, but I would like it if they sped up the process."
"I am a SAP user and I would like this tool to have more connectors - and to more easily connect to - the ERP or SAP environment."
"There could be an integrated AI that can automatically analyze some of your data and highlight or provide suggestions. For example, when you are looking at a data set, it can suggest putting it into a certain type of chart so that you gain different insights or a trend line. You would almost have templates that it would recommend for you."
"The solution could be more customizable and you do not have too much freedom on the code."
"SSMS & SSRS."
"There is room for improvement in terms of pricing for the solution."
"There's always room for improvement for Microsoft Power BI, especially for the UX and the menus to make it more accessible to business users."
"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."
"There is a limitation that we cannot create more than 300 columns in a worksheet on Zoho Analytics."
"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."
"The support for Zoho Analytics is pathetic."
"The platform's pricing needs improvement."
"The solution's tasks and project management tools are weaker than those of its competitors."
"The hourly pricing needs improvement."
"I have a lower rating when it comes to Zoho Analytics. The tool has poor performance. It needs to improve the dimensions and measures."
Microsoft Power BI is ranked 1st in BI (Business Intelligence) Tools with 297 reviews while Zoho Analytics is ranked 13th in BI (Business Intelligence) Tools 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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