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."This reporting and broadcasting solution has a lot of flexibilities and can connect to multiple source systems."
"The planning and dashboarding features have been useful. Additionally, the fixed-format reports are good."
"The solution can scale."
"It is a very good product, stable, and has good technical capabilities."
"BusinessObject's most useful feature is the semantic layer, which offers us the flexibility to go for ad hoc reporting."
"We find that we can scale it as needed."
"Business analytics are the most valuable features of this solution; I don't have experience with the other functional features offered."
"To share a metadata service layer, you don't need to add a user or write a SQL query. Instead, you can present a raw database to your end user."
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"The most valuable feature of Zoho Analytics is its connectivity with ERP systems and the functionality to set up different fields for leads."
"I like the way I can share dashboards and embed dashboards. I normally use embedding. So, I create a dashboard, and I embed it into specific websites. Sharing of the dashboard is seamless, and it is easier than any other visualization platform, even Tableau."
"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."
"The front end of this solution including the graph generation using SQL has been most useful."
"The solution’s dashboard is very good."
"We moved the data from Zoho Creator to Zoho Analytics and created reports."
"The data source is the most valuable feature as it can perform any function."
"It could be a lighter solution."
"The combination of Lumira along with Design Studio merger last year still needs development from a visualization standpoint."
"I would like to see their data visualization products enhanced and made more robust and easier to implement."
"The initial setup could be simplified."
"The solution can improve by having more analytical features."
"The platform should be a bit more user-friendly."
"The self-service area, or dashboard, needs some improvement. While the reporting itself is great, the dashboard and Analytics Cloud are not user friendly."
"The integration could be improved. The SAP suite has some integration problems and it has some huge development needs. For example, when you use Power BI, if you publish a dataset to the web, there is no issue in seeing the data with the report. The data and report are integrated automatically. Or when you use QlikView, when you publish the QVD file, the report is integrated with QVD. Also, with Tableau, when you publish the data, it's in the hyper database, in the memory, and the dashboard with data is integrated seamlessly. In the SAP side, it's not easy. There are lots of business layers. There are also some performance issues in the SAP BusinessObjects suite. They should focus on the technologies. We are partners and every step of the way, SAP asks us for money. If you want to see the products, the PDFs, if you want to learn the product, online training, etc., everything has a cost on the SAP site. Because of this, partners try to get to know the products on their own. SAP only focuses on the sales side—only money is important for SAP, not the quality. In that way, the operation is not easy on the SAP side. As a suggestion, they should focus on customers first instead of money."
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"The support for Zoho Analytics is pathetic."
"I have a lower rating when it comes to Zoho Analytics. The tool has poor performance. It needs to improve the dimensions and measures."
"There is a limitation that we cannot create more than 300 columns in a worksheet on Zoho Analytics."
"This solution does not support manufacturing facilities."
"The tool needs to improve analysis and add more features."
"There should be more types of graphics available for use in the reports."
"It would be great to have more user input fields which can be used on dashboards."
"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."
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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 12th 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 MicroStrategy, 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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