IBM Analytics Engine vs. Zoho Analytics

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
IBM Analytics Engine
Score 8.8 out of 10
N/A
IBM BigInsights is an analytics and data visualization tool leveraging hadoop.N/A
Zoho Analytics
Score 8.2 out of 10
Small Businesses (1-50 employees)
Zoho Analytics (formerly Zoho Reports) is a self-service BI and analytics platform that allows users to analyze their business data and create reports and dashboards. It is designed to help users create and share reports quickly, without IT assistance.
$50
per month
Pricing
IBM Analytics EngineZoho Analytics
Editions & Modules
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Basic
$30
0.5M rows, 2 users
Professional
$30
per user per month billed annually
Standard
$60
1M rows, 5 users
Premium
$145
5M rows, 15 users
Enterprise
$575
50M rows, 50 users
Offerings
Pricing Offerings
IBM Analytics EngineZoho Analytics
Free Trial
NoYes
Free/Freemium Version
NoYes
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
NoYes
Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
Additional DetailsThere is a 20% discount for all plans if subscribed yearly. Customers can buy add-on rows and users, in addition to the plans listed above.
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Top Pros
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Features
IBM Analytics EngineZoho Analytics
BI Standard Reporting
Comparison of BI Standard Reporting features of Product A and Product B
IBM Analytics Engine
-
Ratings
Zoho Analytics
8.3
111 Ratings
1% above category average
Pixel Perfect reports00 Ratings8.289 Ratings
Customizable dashboards00 Ratings8.5111 Ratings
Ad-hoc Reporting
Comparison of Ad-hoc Reporting features of Product A and Product B
IBM Analytics Engine
-
Ratings
Zoho Analytics
8.0
114 Ratings
1% below category average
Drill-down analysis00 Ratings8.0109 Ratings
Formatting capabilities00 Ratings7.5113 Ratings
Report sharing and collaboration00 Ratings8.5114 Ratings
Report Output and Scheduling
Comparison of Report Output and Scheduling features of Product A and Product B
IBM Analytics Engine
-
Ratings
Zoho Analytics
8.7
107 Ratings
4% above category average
Publish to Web00 Ratings8.590 Ratings
Publish to PDF00 Ratings8.7106 Ratings
Report Delivery Scheduling00 Ratings8.893 Ratings
Data Discovery and Visualization
Comparison of Data Discovery and Visualization features of Product A and Product B
IBM Analytics Engine
-
Ratings
Zoho Analytics
7.9
60 Ratings
2% below category average
Pre-built visualization formats (heatmaps, scatter plots etc.)00 Ratings8.057 Ratings
Location Analytics / Geographic Visualization00 Ratings8.153 Ratings
Predictive Analytics00 Ratings7.846 Ratings
Access Control and Security
Comparison of Access Control and Security features of Product A and Product B
IBM Analytics Engine
-
Ratings
Zoho Analytics
8.5
105 Ratings
1% below category average
Multi-User Support (named login)00 Ratings8.9104 Ratings
Role-Based Security Model00 Ratings8.652 Ratings
Multiple Access Permission Levels (Create, Read, Delete)00 Ratings8.599 Ratings
Report-Level Access Control00 Ratings8.29 Ratings
Single Sign-On (SSO)00 Ratings8.553 Ratings
Mobile Capabilities
Comparison of Mobile Capabilities features of Product A and Product B
IBM Analytics Engine
-
Ratings
Zoho Analytics
7.6
77 Ratings
4% below category average
Responsive Design for Web Access00 Ratings7.853 Ratings
Mobile Application00 Ratings7.357 Ratings
Dashboard / Report / Visualization Interactivity on Mobile00 Ratings7.368 Ratings
Application Program Interfaces (APIs) / Embedding
Comparison of Application Program Interfaces (APIs) / Embedding features of Product A and Product B
IBM Analytics Engine
-
Ratings
Zoho Analytics
7.9
46 Ratings
0% below category average
REST API00 Ratings8.242 Ratings
iFrames00 Ratings7.537 Ratings
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User Ratings
IBM Analytics EngineZoho Analytics
Likelihood to Recommend
9.5
(9 ratings)
8.4
(115 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew
-
(0 ratings)
8.7
(7 ratings)
Usability
-
(0 ratings)
8.3
(59 ratings)
Availability
-
(0 ratings)
9.1
(1 ratings)
Performance
-
(0 ratings)
9.1
(1 ratings)
Support Rating
-
(0 ratings)
7.6
(17 ratings)
Implementation Rating
-
(0 ratings)
9.0
(2 ratings)
Product Scalability
-
(0 ratings)
8.4
(47 ratings)
User Testimonials
IBM Analytics EngineZoho Analytics
Likelihood to Recommend
IBM
  • Well suited for my big data related project or a static data set analysis especially for uploading huge dataset to the cluster.
  • But had some issues with connecting IoT real-time data and feeding to Power BI. It might be my understanding please take it as a mere comment rather than a suggestion.
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Zoho
If you've got multiple applications to pull data from, Zoho Analytics is key. As soon as you get beyond hundreds, and into thousands of rows, I'd say you need a tool like Zoho Analytics. We've used it to analyze millions of rows and the engine seems to work well. If you've been able to utilize Excel to create visualizations, you'll find Zoho Analytics to be much more user friendly, in my opinion
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Pros
IBM
  • Jobs with Spark, Hadoop, or Hive queries are rapidly attained
  • Can collect, organize and analyze your data accurately
  • You can customize, for example, Spark or Hadoop configuration settings, or Python, R, Scala, or Java libraries.
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Zoho
  • It gives a single unified view everyday for our sales team to look at to track their progress and the progress of their peers in achieving the targets
  • It helps Account Executives to analyse their sales pipeline and find out the score for each deal and any high potential deal that is not getting enough attention
  • Some of our consultants have built very powerful stories on how and what impacts sales using storyboards and they are well understood by senior leadership
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Cons
IBM
  • Easier pricing and plug-and-play like you see with AWS and Azure, it would be nice from a budgeting and billing standpoint, as well as better support for the administration.
  • Bundling of the Cloud Object Storage should be included with the Analytics Engine.
  • The inability to add your own Hadoop stack components has made some transfers a little more complex.
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Zoho
  • Viewers are provided as "add-ons", this should be basic part of the package.
  • Activity logs of every events is important for audit purpose. it should have been provided with every version.
  • More generics and custom reports support. should be extensible
  • Better aspects of Mobile views, UI/UX in small devices.
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Likelihood to Renew
IBM
No answers on this topic
Zoho
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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Usability
IBM
No answers on this topic
Zoho
Zoho Analytics for ease of use and the overall end-user experience. It helps in maintaining data base and creating customized logical data. Report preparation becomes easy, and the visual representation creates a magical presentation. The meaningful data help in business analytics and projections helpful for planning futuristic strategy with the help of Data modelling and figures
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Reliability and Availability
IBM
No answers on this topic
Zoho
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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Performance
IBM
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Zoho
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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Support Rating
IBM
No answers on this topic
Zoho
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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Implementation Rating
IBM
No answers on this topic
Zoho
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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Alternatives Considered
IBM
We initially wanted to go with Google BigQuery, mainly for the name recognition. However, the pricing and support structure led us to seek alternatives, which pointed us to IBM. Apache Spark was also in the running, but here IBM's domination in the industry made the choice a no-brainer. As previously stated, the support received was not quite what we expected, but was adequate.
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Zoho
We used Yellowfin for 1 year and it really doesn't compare to Zoho Analytics because it doesn't have the native integration with ManageEngine's tools and the customization is more technical, Zoho Analytics lets you create dashboards automatically, immediately when you connect the data source (no matter if that is a MSSQL database, URL or an XLS file), maybe you will require custom some details in the dashboard, but it's not compared to create it from zero.
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Scalability
IBM
No answers on this topic
Zoho
I have not really had problems with the operation of the platform; when I accessed it, I managed to do the work in the ideal times. The statistical development responds very quickly to the user’s requirements, and it is easy to extract the data to make the particular combinations that interest the industry.
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Return on Investment
IBM
  • This product has allowed us to gather analytics data across multiple platforms so we can view and analyze the data from different workflows, all in one place.
  • IBM Analytics has allowed us to scale on demand which allows us to capture more and more data, thus increasing our ROI.
  • The convenience of the ability to access and administer the product via multiple interfaces has allowed our administrators to ensure that the application is making a positive ROI for our business users and partners.
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Zoho
  • 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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ScreenShots

Zoho Analytics Screenshots

Screenshot of Access reports from iPad and Android tablets.Screenshot of Embed reports in your intranet, business application, website or blog.Screenshot of Track your business key metrics with KPI charts.Screenshot of A dashboard with KPI widgets.Screenshot of Access reports from iPad and Android tablets.Screenshot of Share reports with colleagues and clients, with fine grained access control permissions applied.