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 of Microsoft Power BI is the drill-through feature that takes you to a details page the users want to see."
"This is a self-service BI tool, so it doesn't require a huge amount of technical training, knowledge, or a background in BI in order to induct new people into it."
"The virtualization of Microsoft BI is very good."
"The solution's initial setup isn't too complicated."
"What I like about Power BI is how fast you are able to create dashboards and how fast you are able to fetch the data. You can connect to the database or data source, and then you can design your dashboards very easily."
"The solution is not that difficult to install, although this will vary with the experience of the person responsible for its installation."
"I also find connecting to different data sources is quite simple. Other solutions we were using before were complicated."
"Good reporting and data analysis tool that's user-friendly, easy to deploy, stable, and scalable."
"The data source is the most valuable feature as it can perform any function."
"The initial setup is straightforward."
"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."
"The integration interface is very easy to use and allows you to directly connect to a variety of APIs."
"The front end of this solution including the graph generation using SQL has been most useful."
"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 most valuable feature of Zoho Analytics is its connectivity with ERP systems and the functionality to set up different fields for leads."
"The dashboard could be simplified."
"It would be better if they had some video tutorials. Most people from an Excel background may struggle with measures in Microsoft BI."
"It would be nice to use other connectors to link with the data."
"You do need to do some hard coding for certain things in Microsoft BI."
"Power BI shows reports on actual data, not metadata."
"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."
"It needs a wizard that covers all its options."
"These licenses are in US dollars. With a long-term license, the client is unaffected when the exchange rate goes up. However, if the exchange rate goes down, you don't get refunded from the excess money you've paid. I guess that is a risk you take in business."
"I have a lower rating when it comes to Zoho Analytics. The tool has poor performance. It needs to improve the dimensions and measures."
"The solution does not provide call center facilities for customer support."
"The solution's tasks and project management tools are weaker than those of its competitors."
"The tool needs to improve analysis and add more features."
"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 customer service and support for this solution could be improved by faster response times."
"It would be great to have more user input fields which can be used on dashboards."
"A higher degree of artificial intelligence could be included in this solution. The data and overall insights could be improved."
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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