We performed a comparison between Windward Core and Zoho Analytics based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Microsoft, Tableau, Oracle and others in Reporting."It's very feature-rich. You can create tables, you can create graphs, you can import pictures, and those features are also easy to use."
"The engine being able to sit inside of our firewall is the most important feature."
"The Windward solution was very fast to rollout, and it is proven."
"Thanks to Windward, our documents need very few tweaks and are usually "customer-ready" right out of the box."
"The most valuable feature is the fact that it uses Microsoft Word and Microsoft Excel as base templates, so when you generate, it's easy for clients to upgrade, and maintain, and generate out either a PDF or an actual Excel spreadsheet."
"We can develop any report at least five times faster."
"A useful, easy to use product, which has a lot of features for designing reports."
"For the designer we use AutoTag which is a Microsoft Word plugin. In general, it's easy to use, it doesn't have a very steep learning curve. It's not difficult, for people who know Microsoft Office well, to start using the AutoTag tool... It feels just like you're in a Microsoft Office environment with some extra functionality."
"The solution’s dashboard is very good."
"The front end of this solution including the graph generation using SQL has been most useful."
"The integration interface is very easy to use and allows you to directly connect to a variety of APIs."
"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."
"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."
"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."
"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."
"Scheduling of reports and dashboards is the most valuable feature of Zoho Analytics."
"There are some Excel formatting things that you lose when you implement a template: some default Excel validation scripts, macros. You could create them in Excel if you were just using Excel, but in creating a template that generates a report, some of those validation things are lost."
"We would like to shrink these reports into one page, because there is a lot of free space on one page, but we cannot shrink it into the one page to be shorter. This is one thing we would like to change."
"They could make the document creation performance faster. I'm not saying it's slow but it takes time to create the PDFs. If they could make it faster, that would be one area for improvement."
"I'm still working in Office 2016, and we have had some issues, but Windward is very quick to react when there is a problem. We are also going to switch over to Office 365 and that will solve a few of the problems."
"They should add a document distribution solution on top of the document generation capability. It should allow us to send the generated document to a certain recipient (e.g. customer contact’s email address) based on a business-rules management system. That system would allow the end-user to manage a relationship between a document template and its recipient."
"The tool does not support macOS documents."
"Is there any way to avoid AutoTag loading in Word/Excel each time? I need to use it from time to time - quite rarely. AutoTag affects performance of Word/Excel. I do not want to install/uninstall AutoTag each time I need it."
"The next release could benefit from a cloud-based environment."
"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."
"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."
"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."
"This solution does not support manufacturing facilities."
"The navigation on the interface is not intuitive."
"There is a limitation that we cannot create more than 300 columns in a worksheet on Zoho Analytics."
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Windward Core is ranked 24th in Reporting while Zoho Analytics is ranked 10th in Reporting with 24 reviews. Windward Core is rated 8.8, while Zoho Analytics is rated 8.2. The top reviewer of Windward Core writes "It has streamlined a lot of our reporting processes". 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". Windward Core is most compared with Docmosis, SAP Crystal Reports, Nintex Document Generation, OpenText Magellan BI & Reporting and CA Easytrieve Report Generator, whereas Zoho Analytics is most compared with Apache Superset, Tableau, Microsoft Power BI, Looker and Qlik Sense.
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