Metabase vs. Zoho Analytics

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
Metabase
Score 7.8 out of 10
N/A
Metabase aims to bring data tools with the simplicity of consumer products to the crufty world of enterprise business intelligence. Their open source analytics and business intelligence applications connect to most commonly used databases to let anyone in a company ask questions, and create dashboards or nightly emails without knowing SQL. Metabase Enterprise enables the user to embed branded analytics into customer applications.
$85
per month
Zoho Analytics
Score 8.3 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.
$30
per month 2 users
Pricing
MetabaseZoho Analytics
Editions & Modules
Starter
$85
per month (includes 5 users, then $5 per user, per month)
Growth
$749
per month (includes 10 users, then $15 per user, per month)
Open Source
Free
Enterprise
starting at $15,000
per year
Enterprise
Starts at $15,000
per year
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
MetabaseZoho Analytics
Free Trial
YesYes
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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Features
MetabaseZoho Analytics
BI Standard Reporting
Comparison of BI Standard Reporting features of Product A and Product B
Metabase
7.8
4 Ratings
4% below category average
Zoho Analytics
8.7
131 Ratings
7% above category average
Pixel Perfect reports8.02 Ratings8.7102 Ratings
Customizable dashboards8.64 Ratings8.7131 Ratings
Report Formatting Templates6.94 Ratings00 Ratings
Ad-hoc Reporting
Comparison of Ad-hoc Reporting features of Product A and Product B
Metabase
7.5
4 Ratings
7% below category average
Zoho Analytics
8.2
133 Ratings
2% above category average
Drill-down analysis8.44 Ratings8.2127 Ratings
Formatting capabilities7.14 Ratings7.6132 Ratings
Integration with R or other statistical packages5.42 Ratings00 Ratings
Report sharing and collaboration9.14 Ratings8.8133 Ratings
Report Output and Scheduling
Comparison of Report Output and Scheduling features of Product A and Product B
Metabase
8.6
2 Ratings
4% above category average
Zoho Analytics
8.7
125 Ratings
5% above category average
Publish to Web9.01 Ratings8.7104 Ratings
Publish to PDF9.01 Ratings8.6123 Ratings
Report Versioning7.62 Ratings00 Ratings
Report Delivery Scheduling9.01 Ratings8.8108 Ratings
Data Discovery and Visualization
Comparison of Data Discovery and Visualization features of Product A and Product B
Metabase
7.8
4 Ratings
1% below category average
Zoho Analytics
8.3
80 Ratings
5% above category average
Pre-built visualization formats (heatmaps, scatter plots etc.)8.64 Ratings8.576 Ratings
Location Analytics / Geographic Visualization10.02 Ratings8.768 Ratings
Predictive Analytics6.82 Ratings7.662 Ratings
Pattern Recognition and Data Mining5.82 Ratings00 Ratings
Access Control and Security
Comparison of Access Control and Security features of Product A and Product B
Metabase
9.6
4 Ratings
12% above category average
Zoho Analytics
8.6
125 Ratings
1% above category average
Multi-User Support (named login)8.94 Ratings8.9123 Ratings
Role-Based Security Model10.03 Ratings8.968 Ratings
Multiple Access Permission Levels (Create, Read, Delete)9.64 Ratings8.7118 Ratings
Report-Level Access Control9.63 Ratings7.926 Ratings
Single Sign-On (SSO)10.04 Ratings8.570 Ratings
Mobile Capabilities
Comparison of Mobile Capabilities features of Product A and Product B
Metabase
9.0
2 Ratings
14% above category average
Zoho Analytics
7.4
93 Ratings
6% below category average
Responsive Design for Web Access8.01 Ratings7.867 Ratings
Mobile Application10.01 Ratings6.669 Ratings
Dashboard / Report / Visualization Interactivity on Mobile9.02 Ratings7.282 Ratings
Application Program Interfaces (APIs) / Embedding
Comparison of Application Program Interfaces (APIs) / Embedding features of Product A and Product B
Metabase
8.7
3 Ratings
12% above category average
Zoho Analytics
8.1
61 Ratings
4% above category average
REST API8.13 Ratings8.157 Ratings
Javascript API9.02 Ratings00 Ratings
iFrames9.02 Ratings8.049 Ratings
Java API10.01 Ratings00 Ratings
Themeable User Interface (UI)7.02 Ratings00 Ratings
Customizable Platform (Open Source)9.01 Ratings00 Ratings
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User Ratings
MetabaseZoho Analytics
Likelihood to Recommend
8.6
(4 ratings)
8.2
(135 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew
-
(0 ratings)
9.0
(9 ratings)
Usability
8.0
(3 ratings)
8.3
(79 ratings)
Availability
-
(0 ratings)
9.1
(1 ratings)
Performance
-
(0 ratings)
9.1
(2 ratings)
Support Rating
-
(0 ratings)
7.0
(18 ratings)
Implementation Rating
-
(0 ratings)
5.7
(3 ratings)
Ease of integration
-
(0 ratings)
7.3
(1 ratings)
Product Scalability
-
(0 ratings)
8.2
(67 ratings)
Vendor post-sale
-
(0 ratings)
7.3
(1 ratings)
Vendor pre-sale
-
(0 ratings)
8.2
(1 ratings)
User Testimonials
MetabaseZoho Analytics
Likelihood to Recommend
Metabase
Metabase is an easy tool to use if you are interested in collecting and aggregating data from multiple platforms. It is also easy to set up and start receiving the data results as a report. It is also easy to integrate with other tools that generate visual reports and take the necessary actions based on the data details.
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Zoho
Zoho Analytics does a pretty decent job across all aspects. Still, on the dashboard part, Zoho Analytics is really good compared to other BI Analytical tools. It offers a wide range of dashboard options and allows users to customize them based on needs and requirements. On the other hand, for customer reports, it falls a little short.
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Pros
Metabase
  • We're currently using it to fetch reports for our products, such as daily sales, pipeline, visits, and attendance reports.
  • Data representation from database directly.
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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
Metabase
  • Report Types
  • Updates
  • Colour/Branding
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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
Metabase
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
Metabase
Its generally quite easy to use but some SQL is definitely important
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Zoho
I think Zoho Analytics is excellent for visualizing the data. I don't spend much time preparing the data or creating the charts, graphs, and reports, so I can't discuss that. I do know that our team spends a LOT less time working on the reports now than they used to. Zoho has saved them a great deal of time.
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Reliability and Availability
Metabase
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
Metabase
No answers on this topic
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
Metabase
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
Metabase
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
Metabase
It does not stack up against Metabase, they complete each other.
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Zoho
Looker is more of a database. Build your own customization data sets and reporting. At the same time, Looker's forecasting tool seems more accurate. I like Zoho's visual analytics of the data more. Zoho is better for presenting the data to others, while Looker is more raw data, drilling down into the numbers review.
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Scalability
Metabase
No answers on this topic
Zoho
The product is extremely scalable. Its security background makes it extremely easy to control who has access. However, it also allows for analytics and data that anyone can see based on the access they need. As far as I can tell, analytics can take a lot of data and analyze it well.
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Return on Investment
Metabase
  • It is serving us whatever we're looking for, and we've recommended many organizations to implement it if they want better data analytics as it provides better functionality than we will build.
  • As a negative it gets difficult to get control over data to be fetch initially.
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Zoho
  • Without Zoho Analytics we'd be flying blind. From an executive management perspective, this tool has allowed us to get insight into the specific areas we feel are important.
  • We've learned a great deal about what our business actually is because of Zoho Analytics.
  • The tool has allowed us to identify trends in customer engagement and usage that otherwise would have been hidden from our view.
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ScreenShots

Zoho Analytics Screenshots

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