We performed a comparison between SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence Platform 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."It provides flexibility for creating reports. It is very good for creating highly-complex reports. I like this solution because when I buy BusinessObjects, it comes with many components, such as reporting, dashboard, and data visualization tools. Its performance is good. It is running on top of SAP BW and SAP HANA."
"The feature that allows pivot users to create the report dashboards and run them when they want with a lot of flexibility with the drill-downs is very useful. The drill-down features are very good because, in other solutions, such as Excel, you have to create separate pivot tables and a lot of other operations to do drill-downs. SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence Platform tool does the drill-downs automatically. Overall the solution is user-friendly and has a lot of drag and drop features."
"The Dynamic HTML (DHTML) client option of Webi has been enhanced adding features that were previously only available with the Java client including conditional formatting and support of XLS as a data provider."
"The development using SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence Platform is very good."
"It allows the analysis of business data and enables decisions based on the analysis."
"The solution is stable."
"I like the fact that we can integrate it seamlessly within our Epic environment, but probably the best thing that Crystal Reports offers is the ability to do visualizations. They're simple to do, and they're catchy. So, it is a really great tool."
"The scheduling and publication features are very useful."
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"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 most valuable feature of Zoho Analytics is its connectivity with ERP systems and the functionality to set up different fields for leads."
"The initial setup is straightforward."
"It's a very strong analytics tool."
"The data source is the most valuable feature as it can perform any function."
"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."
"We moved the data from Zoho Creator to Zoho Analytics and created reports."
"We would like to see a native version of BusinessObjects and Web Intelligence created for the cloud."
"It is not simple to use."
"This solution is complex to configure and administer."
"SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence Platform should be made easier for the end-users and the performance could be improved."
"More thorough testing of Service Packs before release."
"The interface could be slicker and more user-friendly."
"The financial area in the solution has certain shortcomings that need improvement."
"The dashboard tool is called Lumira and it is very uncomfortable for developers to use. They should improve this in the future."
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"It would be great to have more user input fields which can be used on dashboards."
"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."
"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."
"The hourly pricing needs improvement."
"This solution does not support manufacturing facilities."
"There is a limitation that we cannot create more than 300 columns in a worksheet on Zoho Analytics."
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SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence Platform is ranked 6th in BI (Business Intelligence) Tools with 102 reviews while Zoho Analytics is ranked 13th in BI (Business Intelligence) Tools with 24 reviews. SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence Platform is rated 7.8, while Zoho Analytics is rated 8.2. The top reviewer of SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence Platform writes "Web intelligence will work with any amount of data even if you have 10 million rows". 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". SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence Platform is most compared with SAP Analytics Cloud, Microsoft Power BI, Oracle OBIEE, IBM Cognos and Oracle Essbase, whereas Zoho Analytics is most compared with Apache Superset, Tableau, Microsoft Power BI, Looker and Qlik Sense. See our SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence Platform vs. Zoho Analytics report.
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