DataHero vs. Excel4apps

DataHero ensures every business user in my organization is up to date on key performance metrics and insights through robust data analytics and a configurable data dashboard.

Incentivized

We have to calculate most all Lab / Pilot / Proposals sizing and results. The automated calculations in [Excel4apps] is awesome, as once you are familiar with them, it is easy to quickly implement them when needed.

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• Collecting data from on-premise and cloud data repositories.
• Availability of drag and drop chart creation improves data visualization.
• It makes it effective to share insights with KPI dashboards.

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• Easy to install and maintain. After the initial installation, there is little involvement by the technical administrators.
• Cloning production to a test environment does not require any additional setups unlike Oracle EBS which does.
• Loading data and reporting on this data is handled via EXCEL spreadsheets which is the "language" of our financial users.

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• Collecting data from on-premise tools like Concur Invoice was overwhelming, but we were able to partner with external service providers.

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• It is possible but difficult to retrieve data or set criteria from different module into a single report or retrieve. If it is more user friendly instead of having to create a complex formula to retrieve the data, this function will be utilized more often.
• It will be nice to have visual (graphs, etc.) report template available
• It is helpful if we can retrieve data for a range of date, instead of just YTD, PTD etc. and multi-year data all at once for comparison too.

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DataHero has intuitive and easy to use user interface making it easy to navigate features.

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I am not a power user of Excel. So I find Exel4apps a friendlier version of the things that I could do on Excel and making it easier with a magic wand.

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I haven't interacted with DataHero support, but they must be knowledgeable and responsive regarding how they have documented the features on this tool.

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I have not needed support yet

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Both DataHero and Excel4apps are great business intelligence tools, but the latter don't offer room for growth due to unavailability of large and global enterprises BI tools.

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Excel4apps is more user friendly and can retrieve data much easier and in a nicer format than Jaspersoft. Qlik Sense is useful and have more visual reporting and dashboard. However, it is usually used for higher level of analyses and review. Yardi is used for specific purpose, which is different than Excel4apps. Excel4apps can pull all the financial data from Oracle, including billing and collections.

Incentivized

• Seamless insight sharing across teams in different departments increase productivity.
• DataHero keep us updated by getting insights across all datasets.
• No stale data or manual procedures when reporting with DataHer.

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• Increase team transparency
• Increased reporting

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