Bold BI, by Syncfusion vs. Zoho Analytics

We had chosen Zoho Analytics as our preferred BI platform due to 2 main reasons: 1. We were already using Zoho CRM and Zoho Analytics integrates well with Zoho CRM and learning curve is not so steep 2. With the cloud version (SaaS), the implementation cost was almost negligible and any smart engineer can deploy it for the entire company (if company size is not huge) 3. It has all the features that we would need

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• Very good bang for the buck, especially if you pre-handle your data before uploading so you're not reliant on the Zoho SQL syntax of raw tables and have fewer, wider rows.
• Reasonable assortment of chart types.
• Usable design surface, especially for a fully web based system.
• Reasonably intuitive organization of content types.
• Nice handling of aggregation functions.

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• Reports was challenging to understand initially and some of their documents were out of date so importing did not work.
• It would be nice if the importing instructions were a little more clear for the layman as not all businesses can have an IT department or the like to set up software like this.
• Due to insufficient descriptions, it can be unclear as to what a report is describing or displaying to you.

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I'd give this an 11 if I could! As our business moves forward we hope to use Zoho Analytics more then we do now. Creating better reports and dashboards for our management team to evaluate the health of our business and to provide more insightful reports for our customers. The possibilities are endless with this tool

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It seems to me that it is intuitive. However, it would be opportune to set training phases for those who are approaching a tool like this for the first time. It is clear that the platform throws data that, if they are combined, can be exploited according to their business objective. It would be key to be able to compare figures of competitors, standards and basic elements of the movement in social networks.

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ZOHO is a very reliable company/product. We never had any issues with downtime or inaccessibility to our data. Any type of maintenance that they had to perform was clearly communicated and never an issue. We use a lot of external hooks and we've never had any issues with getting ZOHO to communicate with any of those hooks.

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ZOHO has obviously invested a lot of time effort and money in to creating a reliable infrastructure with high availability. We've never had any issues with performance and all of our data crunching small to large has always been well within reason. We have come to appreciate the performance of ZOHO and will continue to use it for all of our data needs.

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The support team is honestly not that great. At times, it seems as if members of our own team know more about the product than the support team. They must not have a lot of training or the turnaround is quick

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If your external data sources are previously organized and correlated (e.g.: in your datawarehouse or database) your implementation will be easier. Of cource some not previously predicted correlation would be necessary to be done during the implementation, but if your organization let it to be all done into Zoho Analytics, it will take more time from your team.

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Power BI, Tableau are leaders in data visualization tool industry. They provide extensive features and they are priced accordingly. Excel is still my go to tool for analysis on my local machine but it likes functionalities like Zoho app sync, customizable dashboard and AI powered analytical reports. Our decision of selecting Zoho analytics is based on Existing Zoho business suit, data sync feature, and pricing.

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I have used data tables with 10s of thousands of rows. In the age of big data, this is small but it's big for me. I haven't seen issues with the platform as I've increased the number of rows over time so it's hard to say what the upper limits would be.

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• The ability to create and refresh a report has helped to reduce over 50% of time required to prepare elaborate MIS on a monthly basis.
• It helped with analyzing data directly from the CRM and imported historical data at the same time.

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