Zoho Analytics vs datapine Comparison

It's a great solution to build interactive dashboards that can be used for your (automated) reporting. I really like their drag & drop interface in the ‘Analyzer’, because it is intuitive to use. I had no real experience with BI tools before but most of the features I was able to explore on my own and otherwise, their support was always really helpful (as well as the tutorials). The dashboards itself have all the features I needed, and I saved a lot of time for my ongoing reports.

Actually, I was satisfied since day 1 of the trial and continued to use the tool on an ongoing basis. If you want to find something ‘bad’, there are some advanced analytics features where you need to know SQL. But I guess that’s the case for other BI tools as well.

I like most their smart user-interface, that's really intuitive. Especially within their Analyzer section you have a bunch of powerful self-service analytics features such as conditional formatting, comparisons vs last periods, predictions, drilldowns etc. The dashboard section leaves nothing to be desired with great interactive dashboard functions.

I think datapine really keeps up with the time, as they add new features on a regular basis. Some features like their "SQL mode" needs SQL knowledge. However, until know, most of my queries I was able to build by drag & drop and didn't need the manual SQL mode.

With datapine, the amount of manual work for KPI-monitoring and reporting is reduced to a minimum. I’m able to automize the complete data analytics process very easily. I really trust the generated data and insights and have no doubts there. In my opinion, the biggest strengths of datapine are their interactive dashboards as well as the intuitive user interface, that can be easily handled by business users like me, too.

At the moment, datapine offers a 14-day free trial. In my opinion it would be better to have more time to test the product and all its features in detail, especially if you take a look at other tools, too. But actually, other tools also don’t have longer trial periods. Obviously, it’s a standard that needs to change.

I am a BI manager in a medium-sized retail business. We struggled a long time to get all our retail data (online and offline) into one central analytics platform, from where we can share our analysis results easily within the company with different departments (sales, marketing, customer service, procurement, etc.). We tried different solutions on the market and finally decided for datapine because...

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You cannot test a (customized) on-premise versions for free. Their standard 14-day free trial refers only to their SaaS solution.

As part of my training, I spent a few weeks in the controlling department. There I was in contact with BI tools for the first time. One of our analysts gave me a short demo and afterwards I started with my own analyses. Of course, they were quite simple, but I really like the user interface of datapine’s software. Even without any analytics knowledge I was able to visualize data and create dashboards after a few hours.

Since I still have no further experience in the BI area, I can compare the software badly with others.

The data analysis features are impressive. I could easily connect through their data connectors option, and immediately start building my analysis. The 2 modes, a visual and SQL interface enabled me to easily switch if I want to build the queries on my own or drag and drop values into the analyzer. The simplicity of creating complex analysis and visualizing through dashboards that have many interactive options like drill-downs, widget linking, and hierarchical filters have really stood out for me, but also advanced analysis such as predictive analytics. I can also add my own calculated fields, build formulas, and save them for future use.

At the moment they don’t offer many AI / Machine Learning features. I hope this will change in the future.