Zoho Analytics vs Microsoft Power BI Comparison

Report Automation feature is very cool, you don't require too much of BI know-how to use, great visualization great tool for small and medium-sized biz owners

Not as intuitive as other players in the BI market, automated reports may become set as default, thereby limiting users ability to drill down

Ease of use Data sync capabilities Nice data views including views on the mobile Ease of sharing dashboards with others Lots of support resources online including in forums

Needs substantial knowledge of SQL to make it work well. Else, a great product. Still some ways to go to become a full fledged BI product for non technical users

Easy to integrate. Merge reports in a single dashboard. The support team works well for me.

UI/UX is not user-friendly. Alert system is not working correctly.

I've always been a fan of Zoho. Out of all the BI software out there, Zoho Reports has the most features while being the easiest to use even if you're not so tech savvy! This makes it so easy for accounting and marketing personnels.

Not available to generate quick reports to mobile devices, which are used by most sales managers.

I love how easily it was for the BI team to transition to this tool from our previous tool (Alteryx) - it has a great online community that serves as a great resource for any issue, and in my opinion it's a better value tool

The tool advertises some machine learning/data science capabilities, but since these are mainly point-and-click options they're very limited in their functionality and performance. I'd say if you are trying to do data science, using something a little more advanced

Very Easy to use and configurable. You can create reports very quickly and summarise complex data into much simpler and readable format in minutes. SQL syntax to manipulate your data is very useful and powerful and means you don't need to make changes to your existing data structure.

Some UI components e.g graphs feel a bit dated and don't look quite as clean as other BI tools. Can slow down if you are using a large data set, not sure what the recommended maximum data set size is.

Zoho Analytics offre una vasta gamma di funzionalità per l'analisi dei dati, la creazione di report e la visualizzazione dei dati.Anche se non sei un esperto di analisi dei dati, puoi iniziare a creare report e dashboard in pochi minuti. Inoltre, Zoho Analytics offre una vasta gamma di funzionalità, come la possibilità di importare dati da diverse fonti, come file CSV, database e servizi cloud come Google Drive e Dropbox. Il software inoltre offre molte opzioni per la visualizzazione dei dati, tra cui grafici, tabelle e mappe.

Fatico a trovare difetti, complessivamente infatti, Zoho Analytics è uno strumento di BI che consiglio vivamente a chiunque abbia bisogno di analizzare i dati del proprio business.Potrebbero essere creati dei tutorial più semplici per capire meglio il funzionamento di alcune funzioni.

For dashboards and analytics across multiple data types, Zoho has built a truly amazing platform. I continue to be impressed at the power and feature set!

Support isn’t the best. I feel like the non-American support creates a language and time barrier.

It offers a very user-friendly interface that makes it easier to navigate and explore the data, It also offers customisable dashboards that can be tailored to meet specific business needs, and it also gets integrated with other Zoho products such as Zoho CRM or Zoho projects.

Integrating with third-party tools can be challenging and may require technical expertise, it is also not suitable for larger organisations as it has limitations on the amount of data that can be stored and processed. Also, it offers limited customisable options as compared to other BI tools.

The software provides single page reports with a filtering capability across the top. This allow our clients the ability to use different filters and generate a custom report based on their individual needs without us having to build one for them.

The dashboard and data tables are not fully CSS compliant so they are not responsive in web pages. To get around this we set our page with to a static width, but that is not ideal for users on tablets and phones. Also, there is are no mapping options yet.

Zoho Analytics is an excellent business intelligence tool, I like its capacity and availability to measure and analyze data, it is easy to use and at the same time very flexible and adaptable, it offers a neat and intuitive user interface in which you can navigate comfortably, Zoho Analytics allows us to integrate different sources of output data that are obtained from other tools of daily use in the...

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It has happened to us a couple of times that when the volume of data we want to analyze is large the tool takes a long time to process it, we really don't know why it happens but it doesn't always happen.

This software is simple to use even for someone who is not software savvy. It is highly versatility in its applications and customization is simple. We have made numerous custom reports for our District Managers to use on the go to help them manage store performance and goal achievement. Creating customer reports is simple and easy to do.

So far I haven't had any issues with the software so I have nothing that I do not like.

It's usable and allow the new way of managing data for Bussines decision. The good figure is also the direct connection with different DB's.

The least likable things is so flexible at times it can be hard to narrow down how to show a particular data set. It is not as intuitive as it could be navigated.

It is a great software to handle large data and create data relation between different data sources

Cross-platform feature. Currently, you only can run Power BI on windows computers. On Mac you need to use Parallels or Bootcamp to load Power BI

Ease of use - can use excel to just get familiarized. great analytics - can use different data sources. This was as add on to our existing SAS and SSRS reporting.

need to purchase individual licenses for folks who need to tweak it. Does not support subscriptions unless you have a premium license.

The capability to connect with different kind of data sources, different file types supported to import/export and the versatility of the visualization components. Those makes Power BI a complete suite to enhance business through the analytics

Sometimes its complex to build dashboards with lots of filters/options. And connect data between them. But it is only take time to analyze and structure all data in the best way.

Creation of Analytics report, build business intelligence report, interactive reports with visual analytics, dashboards in my workspace.

The user interface is very bulky, complex in nature.

1. Collecting user analytics on UI interactions and events 2. Collect marketing analytics data for product enhancements 3. Customizable dashboards

1. Initial learning curve 2. Mac compatibility issues

Regular releases keep this young product fresh and evolving. Even though it is cloud based it is still possible to access on premise data sources using 'gateway' software.

It offers a free version to get started but to unlock sharing and collaboration you must upgrade to the paid version.

Can provide incredible database results. Has a lot of interactive chart options, which you can visualize specific data on it. It is able to perform different types of data demonstration.

The license is typically pretty expensive, so not everyone on my team has the possibility to have one of it.

Excellent for tracking portfolio performance and KPI monitoring, very good graphics and cross-functional plotting tools

Increase more of infographic and statistical analytics metrics such as moving average and likes

This is a home run for Microsoft. Pull data from multiple sources (Read--ANY source) and put it into a rich, graph presentation on the fly. It is fairly easy to use, easy to organize data and their customer support is responsive as all get out. I love this software.

Pricing model needs help. Price per user for viewing projects is kind of a silly model for pricing--and the Enterprise level--well you better make sure you are an 'Enterprise' at that pricing. Give us a middle man pricing scheme Microsoft!

This powerful software gives you the power to access data in the most detailed manner. This application is endless and could save your company thousands of dollars on data analytics.

Difficult to use and requires a steep learning curve in order to access the amount of data this application has to offer.

You can view and data in any way conceivable in a beautiful user interface on mobile and desktop. You can incorporate visuals outside of a standard pivot.

Printing. If you have multiple tabs on your display it makes printing a pain. It loads each pay into PDF to print from there and it is not great.

one of the best tool for the data visualization and data consolidation. it hels in the report and dashboard .

I mostly like the dashboard and visualization of the data as per custom requirement.

PowerBI allows the freedom to pull data in from multiple sources in the same dashboard. Editing tool allows for manipulation of data after it has been loaded which gives you great flexibility in your reporting.

Sometimes difficult working with dates and timestamps. While the software is intuitive, it sometimes makes assumptions with the data it shouldn't.

Integration with other third party software like Google Analytics, etc.

Hard to learn DAX which is the core of Power BI

Its feature to connect multiple data sources like a csv file, SQL Server database, cloud services like Azure is pretty awesome. Also it has the built in data analytics features with interactive visuals to visualize the data effectively and efficiently

Power BI is not capable on high data. Like if you need to import high volume data into Power BI then its gets slow and he data is not loaded efficiently.

As my experience as MIS Specialist in one of the most famous Fragrances Company in the Middle East, we see that in any company there's the accounting department that provide all reports and analytics that's demanded by other departments, according to that those guys have to do all there outcomes reports manually, and this process will cost time, efforts, stuffs,... for that one of great benefit from MS Power BI, is that he save me money, save me time, save me my the cost of wages for the accountants, my stuff in the accounting department is just about 5 great guys. All the mater is just I have to design the report and working on the Data Warehousing a little bit, then I can get my report in the target template that provide me all what I want, and furthermore, all reports up-to-date 7/24.

We still need the integration with other services, like Vend POS, Shopify directly without any intermediate programs.

-Great analyzing data sets -Helps combine data sets for deeper analytics

-Graphical modifications could be more streamlined

Microsoft Power BI allows our team to share data and results with the rest of the company. We can customize the layout and different inputs which is very useful.

If you are a beginner at data analytics, it is a lot to digest and take in.

Great tool and alternative to Tableau - useful for data visualization and analytics

When resize the internet browser, all of the report sizing is fixed relative to the browser - so if you make your browser smaller the reports become small and difficult to read.

Makes my analytics duties very easy to handle. Beautiful reports and intuitive use!

If you are used to excel then you need some time to get used to it!

Microsoft Power BI offers a variety of data visualization options to help users quickly identify trends, patterns, and insights within their data. It provides a powerful cloud-enabled platform to store and share data securely. It can easily integrate with other Microsoft products, such as Excel and SharePoint. It is highly customizable, allowing users to customize their dashboards for better analysis and presentation.

Advanced features may require some training and experience to use. More expensive than some other comparable analytics software

Best in class Integrates well with other MS products and Azure Data / Analytics stack

Not the easiest tool to use Has limitations compared to preview SSRS versions

I like the amount of flexibility you have to find analytics within your business.

Some of the tools aren't as intuitive as I would like.

Wide analytics collection High number of data ingress choices Fast learning curve High business value

Would be nice to have a collection of analytics for the main verticals Could have a better AI support for suggesting analisys on each dataset