We performed a comparison between Microsoft Power BI and Zoho Analytics based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Reporting solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."It's the analytic engine in terms of the interface on the Power BI environment, as opposed to pivot tables, and it's a mobile solution."
"There is also a chart store where we can download charts, which is extremely useful."
"Microsoft BI allows us to connect to any database or any dataset."
"It's a very easy-to-use solution."
"The most valuable features of Microsoft BI are the variety of possibilities to connect to various data sources. The visualizations are easily done, have useful rollover functions, and there are continuous updates being made to the system. You can benefit from the various improvements."
"The scalability is good. We have 20 people in my organization using this solution and plan to increase usage."
"The stability is good."
"Ability to extract data from a variety of sources and systems."
"It's a very strong analytics tool."
"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."
"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 solution’s dashboard is very good."
"The data source is the most valuable feature as it can perform any function."
"Scheduling of reports and dashboards is the most valuable feature of Zoho Analytics."
"The initial setup is straightforward."
"The front end of this solution including the graph generation using SQL has been most useful."
"The solution's documentation needs improvement."
"I have found using Microsoft BI is not easy. For example, trying to use the auto-refresh feature is not simple."
"here are some limitations with the data models needed to build the report."
"Microsoft needs to do some more research and development to make it more stable."
"The UI is the main improvement that could be made. Specifically, there is something called DAX, in Power BI, which is complicated compared to calculated fields used in Tableau."
"Microsoft Power BI was born native on the cloud, however, it's quite difficult when it has to connect to on-premise data sources."
"I would like to be able to use SQL properly within the reports and allow multiple people to work on the same report at the same time. If one person is working on it, then it causes issues for anyone else wanting to make reports."
"They can improve it in terms of rule-based security. Currently, it has very limited rules."
"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."
"The platform's pricing needs improvement."
"There is a limitation that we cannot create more than 300 columns in a worksheet on Zoho Analytics."
"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 hourly pricing needs improvement."
"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."
"A higher degree of artificial intelligence could be included in this solution. The data and overall insights could be improved."
"It would be great to have more user input fields which can be used on dashboards."
Microsoft Power BI is ranked 1st in Reporting with 297 reviews while Zoho Analytics is ranked 10th in Reporting with 23 reviews. Microsoft Power BI is rated 8.0, while Zoho Analytics is rated 8.2. The top reviewer of Microsoft Power BI writes "A complete ecosystem with an builtin ETL tool, good integrations with python and R, and support of DAX and Power Query (M languages)". 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". Microsoft Power BI is most compared with Tableau, Amazon QuickSight, KNIME, Domo and Oracle OBIEE, whereas Zoho Analytics is most compared with Apache Superset, Tableau, Looker, Qlik Sense and Amazon QuickSight. See our Microsoft Power BI vs. Zoho Analytics report.
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