We performed a comparison between Microsoft Power BI, Oracle Business Intelligence Cloud Service, and Zoho Analytics based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
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"The Microsoft Power BI app is very good. It's also very flexible."
"It integrates with all of the Microsoft tools."
"The most valuable features of Microsoft BI are its intuitiveness and ease to use."
"Microsoft BI's initial setup is very straightforward."
"Technical support is quite responsive."
"Easy to use and the visualization is valuable."
"My favorite feature is the power query editor, where it can do the data transformations."
"The most valuable features are user-friendly and self-service tools. Users can define their reports based on available data sets, with multiple dimensions and slide and dice data capabilities."
"Initial setup was straightforward."
"Its ease of use and the ability to drill down into detail are the most valuable. Executive dashboarding features are the most commonly used ones."
"The solution effectively integrates with third-party products."
"The front end of this solution including the graph generation using SQL has been most useful."
"The solution’s dashboard is very good."
"The most valuable feature of Zoho Analytics is its connectivity with ERP systems and the functionality to set up different fields for leads."
"Zoho Analytics's most valuable feature is the ability to provide excellent analytics through a single platform."
"We moved the data from Zoho Creator to Zoho Analytics and created reports."
"We really like that it's user friendly and has a lot of combinations and charts. They're good compared to other tools. We used a free Elastic product, comparatively, this solution is good because of their support, UI, and connecting to databases is very easy."
"Zoho Analytics is the best software for giving reports to customers and we can create any report that is required."
"The initial setup is straightforward."
"More connections with other systems should be added, which would allow for other integrations."
"Not having to login again after a mobile app upgrade. A simple login on mobile would be great."
"It should have more report outputs. They should expand the report outputs. Its documentation should also be better."
"Areas of Power BI that could be improved are the learning curve for developers who come from non-technical backgrounds."
"Microsoft is behind IBM when it comes to security features."
"It is too slow. I hope in future it will be a comparable big data tool, such as, for example, Data Lake."
"One opportunity for improvement would be on the Power Query side. As a consultant, I know Power Query is not the main strength of Power BI. It is not where Power BI shines, but many customers use Power Query to do full ETL workloads for deliverable cookies."
"Microsoft BI’s integration and visualization could be improved."
"Quality of support varies."
"The dashboard could be improved and include additional features."
"When looking at web-based BI or cloud-based BI vendors, there should be abilities for power users to build deep analysis. If they are not data science tools, they are not for power users."
"In terms of data modeling, it could be simplified. Sometimes, it seems complicated. Also, the response time for data set refreshes could be faster to enhance the user experience."
"The navigation on the interface is not intuitive."
"This solution does not support manufacturing facilities."
"The solution's tasks and project management tools are weaker than those of its competitors."
"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."
"The platform's pricing needs improvement."
"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."
"The solution does not provide call center facilities for customer support."
"It would be great to have more user input fields which can be used on dashboards."
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