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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    Joule

    Score8 out of 10
    N/AJoule is an AI copilot that’s grounded in an organization's business data and infused with AI agents. It proactively assists employees in every cloud application they use while automating complex processes.N/A

    Zoho Analytics

    Score8.4 out of 10
    Small Businesses (1-50 employees)
    Zoho Analytics is a self-service BI and analytics platform that uncovers patterns, spots emerging trends, tracks business metrics, and detects anomalies. Designed for ease of use, it enables business users to create reports and dashboards independently, without relying on IT.

    $60

    per month 5 users

    Pricing
    JouleZoho Analytics
    Editions & Modules
    No answers on this topic
    Standard
    $60
    per month Starts at 5 Users
    Premium
    $145
    per month Starts at 15 Users
    Enterprise
    $575
    per month Starts at 50 Users
    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    JouleZoho Analytics
    Free Trial
    NoYes
    Free/Freemium Version
    YesYes
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    YesYes
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
    Additional DetailsJoule Base Joule Base is a no-cost entitlement of SAP cloud products that enables teams to navigate SAP systems more easily, find the right information more quickly, and complete everyday tasks faster. Joule Premium Joule Premium extends Joule Base with more powerful AI, including advanced Joule skills, premium embedded AI scenarios, and Joule Agents. Joule Premium capabilities are accessed through the purchase of AI units. Visit the pricing page linked above to learn more about Joule Premium capabilities.There 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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    Features
    JouleZoho Analytics
    BI Standard Reporting
    Comparison of BI Standard Reporting features of Joule and Zoho Analytics
    Feature
    Joule
    -
    Ratings
    Zoho Analytics
    8.6
    135 Ratings
    5% above category average
    Pixel Perfect reports00 Ratings8.8106 Ratings
    Customizable dashboards00 Ratings8.5135 Ratings
    Ad-hoc Reporting
    Comparison of Ad-hoc Reporting features of Joule and Zoho Analytics
    Feature
    Joule
    -
    Ratings
    Zoho Analytics
    8.1
    137 Ratings
    1% above category average
    Drill-down analysis00 Ratings8.0131 Ratings
    Formatting capabilities00 Ratings7.6136 Ratings
    Report sharing and collaboration00 Ratings8.6137 Ratings
    Report Output and Scheduling
    Comparison of Report Output and Scheduling features of Joule and Zoho Analytics
    Feature
    Joule
    -
    Ratings
    Zoho Analytics
    8.4
    129 Ratings
    2% above category average
    Publish to Web00 Ratings8.2108 Ratings
    Publish to PDF00 Ratings8.6127 Ratings
    Report Delivery Scheduling00 Ratings8.4112 Ratings
    Data Discovery and Visualization
    Comparison of Data Discovery and Visualization features of Joule and Zoho Analytics
    Feature
    Joule
    -
    Ratings
    Zoho Analytics
    8.0
    84 Ratings
    0% above category average
    Pre-built visualization formats (heatmaps, scatter plots etc.)00 Ratings8.280 Ratings
    Location Analytics / Geographic Visualization00 Ratings8.572 Ratings
    Predictive Analytics00 Ratings7.566 Ratings
    Access Control and Security
    Comparison of Access Control and Security features of Joule and Zoho Analytics
    Feature
    Joule
    -
    Ratings
    Zoho Analytics
    8.5
    129 Ratings
    0% above category average
    Multi-User Support (named login)00 Ratings8.6127 Ratings
    Role-Based Security Model00 Ratings8.972 Ratings
    Multiple Access Permission Levels (Create, Read, Delete)00 Ratings8.5122 Ratings
    Report-Level Access Control00 Ratings8.030 Ratings
    Single Sign-On (SSO)00 Ratings8.574 Ratings
    Mobile Capabilities
    Comparison of Mobile Capabilities features of Joule and Zoho Analytics
    Feature
    Joule
    -
    Ratings
    Zoho Analytics
    6.4
    97 Ratings
    19% below category average
    Responsive Design for Web Access00 Ratings7.371 Ratings
    Mobile Application00 Ratings4.373 Ratings
    Dashboard / Report / Visualization Interactivity on Mobile00 Ratings5.986 Ratings
    Application Program Interfaces (APIs) / Embedding
    Comparison of Application Program Interfaces (APIs) / Embedding features of Joule and Zoho Analytics
    Feature
    Joule
    -
    Ratings
    Zoho Analytics
    8.3
    65 Ratings
    7% above category average
    REST API00 Ratings8.161 Ratings
    iFrames00 Ratings8.553 Ratings
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    Medium-sized Companies
    Cortana (discontinued)
    Score7.5 out of 10
    Qlik Cloud Analytics (Qlik Sense)
    Score8.1 out of 10
    Enterprises
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    User Ratings
    JouleZoho Analytics
    Likelihood to Recommend
    7.7
    (110 ratings)
    7.2
    (139 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    7.0
    (6 ratings)
    8.9
    (9 ratings)
    Usability
    8.1
    (108 ratings)
    7.8
    (83 ratings)
    Availability
    6.8
    (2 ratings)
    9.1
    (1 ratings)
    Performance
    7.3
    (2 ratings)
    9.1
    (2 ratings)
    Support Rating
    6.3
    (4 ratings)
    5.4
    (18 ratings)
    Online Training
    7.3
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Implementation Rating
    7.4
    (3 ratings)
    5.5
    (3 ratings)
    Configurability
    7.3
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Contract Terms and Pricing Model
    6.4
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Data Sharing and Collaboration
    -
    (0 ratings)
    7.7
    (51 ratings)
    Data Sources
    -
    (0 ratings)
    8.8
    (51 ratings)
    Ease of integration
    7.3
    (1 ratings)
    7.3
    (1 ratings)
    Product Scalability
    8.2
    (1 ratings)
    7.2
    (71 ratings)
    Professional Services
    7.3
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Vendor post-sale
    7.3
    (1 ratings)
    7.3
    (1 ratings)
    Vendor pre-sale
    7.3
    (1 ratings)
    8.2
    (1 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    JouleZoho Analytics
    Likelihood to Recommend
    SAP
    Joule explained ATC findings, including root cause, business impact, recommended APIs, and examples of fixes for S/4HANA readiness checks. Joule today is a point-in-time assistant — great for one question, one generation, one explanation at a time. It is not yet capable of owning a full development flow.
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    Zoho
    Zoho Analytics is the best way to consume data created by Zoho products . It's robust and quick build formula libraries and auto generated reports. A data source can be integrated and be ready for consumption within minutes. This gives a well developed baseline for organizing to develop advance analytics. It's mobile dashboards are very intuitive and useful for leaders who are on the move.
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    Pros
    SAP
    • Users can prompt Joule to create business partners in MDG.
    • The change process for Business partner (Customers/Suppliers) updation is made easy, particularly for updating data such as address and communication details.
    • The workflow process has been simplified by Joule agents, such as identifying the high-priority task and sharing it with the end user.
    • Improved data quality to almost 30%~50% in the CR creation process, which is a significant milestone for us.
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    Zoho
    • Zoho Analytics’ predictive analytics capabilities can help forecast future trends, allowing for proactive planning and risk management.
    • Performance Monitoring: We can track key performance indicators (KPIs) across departments, such as sales, marketing, finance, and HR. This aids in identifying bottlenecks and areas for improvement.
    • Decision making regarding resource allocation.
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    Cons
    SAP
    • In SuccessFactors Joule should have more tools out of the box.
    • There should be more examples on what is possible to do with Joule or Joule Studio in Successfactors, all available examples seem to focus only on Payroll or Inventory management leaving the HR behind.
    • Document Grounding should be easier to implement, and should be possible to have some kind of permissions per couuntry / user group for specific documents. The implementation with Sharepoint makes it harder to complete because normally we need some extra team to join and help and until now, I always had issues implementing it. I believe that it would make it much easier if the documents could be stored and managed inside SuccessFactors.
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    Zoho
    • I'm guessing it's out there somewhere but I really could have used a 'quick start guide' or guided start.
    • Once I figured it out, it makes sense how to make sure the right data is provided in order to make dashboards quite flexible--- but without examples, I found it quite a challenge
    • The initial organization of Analytics is NOT intuitive. Once in context, the organizational features make sense, but (at least initially) it would have been most useful if the organization of Analytics reports in Zoho Analytics had saved me a lot of time.
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    Likelihood to Renew
    SAP
    As we explore, we can learn more. As i believe, we can only learn to live and live to learn stuffs. So as well AI does the same and improve itself. By trying and prompting joule more, we can use it in better ways. I would definitely wait and use the new versions shared in SAP Teched on Joule with more LLM involved
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    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
    SAP
    I would rate Joule’s overall usability a 10 out of 10 because it makes interacting with SAP incredibly simple, intuitive, and fast. The conversational interface removes the complexity normally associated with navigating SAP modules, running transactions, or building reports. Even non-technical users can get meaningful insights within seconds just by asking natural language questions.
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    Zoho
    For an end user, Zoho Analytics is pretty easy to use and very easy to access the dashboard. Linking data from multiple sources is very convenient. Multiple people can work on preparing and publishing the dashboards simultaneously, which helps delegate tasks.
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    Reliability and Availability
    SAP
    as its cloud based, as of now, we see it available all the time and havent faced any issues while accessing. Not sure if this has high availability and Disaster recovery features got set up already with the default version that we are using at our organization. no issues so far.
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    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
    SAP
    SAP Joule's pages load quickly and it does display the information on what we are looking for w.r.to the knowledge base or the SAP articles.
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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
    SAP
    Usually support for Joule takes longer than normal, and the correct answer always takes a long time to get, or we just don't get it at all, and we fix ourselves.
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    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
    SAP
    Joule implementation was easy but it has too many steps, it would be nice if part of the steps could be done automatically.
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    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
    SAP
    Joule is better because it doesn't take only data available on the web, but combines that with data provided directly by the game publisher through API to us which includes every single match played = all data points from all of those matches. That means that for us Joule gives deeper insights than any online AI chat agent could do
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    Zoho
    Zoho Analytics has the best UI and user friendly to create reports and dashboard along with features like Zia Assistance that guide in creating reports and dashboard and also help in the forecasting of the data based on the past records.
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    Scalability
    SAP
    Yes as sap is used widely across organisation
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    Zoho
    As far as I know, Zoho Analytics has been able to fulfill every need we've had for it. Our reports have gotten better and more detailed with pretty much every new issue of our magazine. It just keeps getting better, and we keep feeding it more data to digest and present to us.
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    Return on Investment
    SAP
    • Allow us to have everyday operations smoother by automating repetitive tasks and reducing manual efforts, which saves time and improves efficiency.
    • Facilitate effortless information access, since it allows us to search and receive instant responses.
    • Reduces the complexity of SAP by pulling data from different modules and making it clear quickly.
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    Zoho
    • Analytics has been the foundation of my role. I manage 2000 accounts myself, so I need analytics to help me know whom to serve first.
    • Analytics provides a lot of visualization options that I need to serve my customers.
    • Analytics has excellent options for accountability with our training team to know where each account is in their customer journey.
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    ScreenShots

    Joule Screenshots

    Screenshot of the Joule AI agent that helps a production supervisor respond faster, avoid delays, and handle shop-floor disruptions to keep production running at maximum efficiency.Screenshot of how Joule can deliver insights grounded in business data, empowering employees to make faster, data-driven decisions.Screenshot of Joule's AI assistance that helps employees work faster by guiding them to the SAP applications and screens where they can complete their next task.Screenshot of Generative AI assisted code development with Joule that helps teams deploy custom applications and extensions faster.Screenshot of Joule Studio, where teams can build custom skills and AI agents to address any specific business needs.

    Zoho Analytics Screenshots

    Screenshot of some of the available 500+ native integrations that unify data across a business for a holistic analysisScreenshot of the visual data pipeline builder used to create data flows with data stagesScreenshot of where to turn questions into insights with Ask Zia.Screenshot of an example of the actionable insights, powered by Zia insights's key driver analysis.Screenshot of Get instant, at-a-glance insights with dynamic dashboards.Screenshot of the interface to build and deploy ML models with the no-code AutoML platform