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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    Strategy Analytics

    Score8.4 out of 10
    N/AMicroStrategy Analytics is an enterprise business analytics and mobility platform. Key features include automatic big data analysis and reporting, data discovery and visualization, digital security credentials, and support for mobile devices.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
    Strategy AnalyticsZoho 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
    Strategy AnalyticsZoho Analytics
    Free Trial
    NoYes
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoYes
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoYes
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
    Additional DetailsMust contact sales team for pricing information.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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    Chose Zoho Analytics
    Product functionality and performance
    Breadth of services
    Incentivized
    Chose Zoho Analytics
    Zoho Analytics' end user experience is much better.
    Incentivized
    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
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    Delivers good value for the price
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    Happy with the feature set
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    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
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    Features
    Strategy AnalyticsZoho Analytics
    BI Standard Reporting
    Comparison of BI Standard Reporting features of Strategy Analytics and Zoho Analytics
    Feature
    Strategy Analytics
    10.0
    26 Ratings
    20% above category average
    Zoho Analytics
    8.6
    135 Ratings
    5% above category average
    Pixel Perfect reports10.023 Ratings8.8106 Ratings
    Customizable dashboards10.023 Ratings8.5135 Ratings
    Report Formatting Templates10.024 Ratings00 Ratings
    Ad-hoc Reporting
    Comparison of Ad-hoc Reporting features of Strategy Analytics and Zoho Analytics
    Feature
    Strategy Analytics
    10.0
    24 Ratings
    22% above category average
    Zoho Analytics
    8.1
    137 Ratings
    1% above category average
    Drill-down analysis10.022 Ratings8.0131 Ratings
    Formatting capabilities10.024 Ratings7.6136 Ratings
    Integration with R or other statistical packages10.016 Ratings00 Ratings
    Report sharing and collaboration10.023 Ratings8.6137 Ratings
    Report Output and Scheduling
    Comparison of Report Output and Scheduling features of Strategy Analytics and Zoho Analytics
    Feature
    Strategy Analytics
    10.0
    23 Ratings
    20% above category average
    Zoho Analytics
    8.4
    129 Ratings
    2% above category average
    Publish to Web10.022 Ratings8.2108 Ratings
    Publish to PDF10.023 Ratings8.6127 Ratings
    Report Versioning10.020 Ratings00 Ratings
    Report Delivery Scheduling10.022 Ratings8.4112 Ratings
    Delivery to Remote Servers10.05 Ratings00 Ratings
    Data Discovery and Visualization
    Comparison of Data Discovery and Visualization features of Strategy Analytics and Zoho Analytics
    Feature
    Strategy Analytics
    10.0
    22 Ratings
    22% above category average
    Zoho Analytics
    8.0
    84 Ratings
    0% above category average
    Pre-built visualization formats (heatmaps, scatter plots etc.)10.020 Ratings8.280 Ratings
    Location Analytics / Geographic Visualization10.019 Ratings8.572 Ratings
    Predictive Analytics10.018 Ratings7.566 Ratings
    Pattern Recognition and Data Mining10.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    Access Control and Security
    Comparison of Access Control and Security features of Strategy Analytics and Zoho Analytics
    Feature
    Strategy Analytics
    10.0
    21 Ratings
    16% above category average
    Zoho Analytics
    8.5
    129 Ratings
    0% above category average
    Multi-User Support (named login)10.019 Ratings8.6127 Ratings
    Role-Based Security Model10.020 Ratings8.972 Ratings
    Multiple Access Permission Levels (Create, Read, Delete)10.020 Ratings8.5122 Ratings
    Report-Level Access Control10.01 Ratings8.030 Ratings
    Single Sign-On (SSO)10.09 Ratings8.574 Ratings
    Mobile Capabilities
    Comparison of Mobile Capabilities features of Strategy Analytics and Zoho Analytics
    Feature
    Strategy Analytics
    9.7
    19 Ratings
    23% above category average
    Zoho Analytics
    6.4
    97 Ratings
    19% below category average
    Responsive Design for Web Access10.019 Ratings7.371 Ratings
    Mobile Application10.015 Ratings4.373 Ratings
    Dashboard / Report / Visualization Interactivity on Mobile10.019 Ratings5.986 Ratings
    Application Program Interfaces (APIs) / Embedding
    Comparison of Application Program Interfaces (APIs) / Embedding features of Strategy Analytics and Zoho Analytics
    Feature
    Strategy Analytics
    10.0
    8 Ratings
    25% above category average
    Zoho Analytics
    8.3
    65 Ratings
    7% above category average
    REST API10.06 Ratings8.161 Ratings
    Javascript API10.07 Ratings00 Ratings
    iFrames10.05 Ratings8.553 Ratings
    Java API10.04 Ratings00 Ratings
    Themeable User Interface (UI)10.05 Ratings00 Ratings
    Customizable Platform (Open Source)10.06 Ratings00 Ratings
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    User Ratings
    Strategy AnalyticsZoho Analytics
    Likelihood to Recommend
    10.0
    (50 ratings)
    7.2
    (139 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    9.9
    (27 ratings)
    8.9
    (9 ratings)
    Usability
    3.2
    (5 ratings)
    7.8
    (83 ratings)
    Availability
    9.0
    (2 ratings)
    9.1
    (1 ratings)
    Performance
    9.0
    (2 ratings)
    9.1
    (2 ratings)
    Support Rating
    2.2
    (5 ratings)
    5.4
    (18 ratings)
    Online Training
    9.0
    (5 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Implementation Rating
    9.0
    (4 ratings)
    5.5
    (3 ratings)
    Configurability
    9.0
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Data Sharing and Collaboration
    8.0
    (21 ratings)
    7.7
    (51 ratings)
    Data Sources
    8.8
    (21 ratings)
    8.8
    (51 ratings)
    Ease of integration
    -
    (0 ratings)
    7.3
    (1 ratings)
    Product Scalability
    9.0
    (2 ratings)
    7.2
    (71 ratings)
    Vendor post-sale
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    7.3
    (1 ratings)
    Vendor pre-sale
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    8.2
    (1 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    Strategy AnalyticsZoho Analytics
    Likelihood to Recommend
    Strategy
    MSTR is great for any organization that is looking for a way to deliver complicated data in an uncomplicated way. From business teams to marketing and finance, several departments benefit from using MSTR to keep track of KPIs enabling teams to make optimizations along the way. MSTR provides great visual representations of data enabling team members to distill thousands of data points into easily digestible charts and graphs
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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
    Strategy
    • They sell the product well, and make promises you will actually believe
    • "checks the box" for most features a company would need. Doesn't actually deliver them though
    • They answer the phone in a timely manner. Can't answer your questions or provide support, but the queue time isn't bad
    • They have online documentation. It's not up to date, and likely doesn't reflect the version of software you are using, but hey... they can point to it.
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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.
    Incentivized
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    Cons
    Strategy
    • The graph options are not as robust as an Excel user might want.
    • The metadata layer can sometimes be slower, and it takes a long time for reports to run.
    • Viewing the data feed entered can be cumbersome at times, in terms of validation with reports.
    Incentivized
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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.
    Incentivized
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    Likelihood to Renew
    Strategy
    I would always choose to renew MicroStrategy as long as they lead the market in features, functionality and price. The support of MicroStrategy is timely and professional, I frequently get answers to my questions within 24 hours and normally have solutions within 48 hours. Training available for MicroStrategy completely covers everything required to be able to expertly use MicroStrategy and understand data warehousing.
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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
    Incentivized
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    Usability
    Strategy
    The standard grid reporting could look more like the styling and object used for the Import and Visual Insight products. In addition, object properties almost seem to be hidden when first using the product. It's as if they are asking the engineers to only use the presets we make available...and, these presets are 10+ years old. On the positive side, Microstrategy seems to be the only product, not named Cognos, which can scale to Big Data. The product is "hackable" via the SDK or tricking the Intelligence Server to do uncommon things. The Microstrategy development team also seems to be very involved with their OEM partners; especially when it comes to features and enhancements. A large majority of the improvements we suggested have made it into the product or on the roadmap for future enhancements. Only suckas fall for the shiny objects from most other vendors; Microstrategy is really the only choice for Enterprise BI.
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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
    Strategy
    I've never had an issue with MicroStrategy not being available due to MicroStrategy application malfunction. It is very robust and only failures I've seen were due to user error or the platform the machine running the service failed some how.
    Incentivized
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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
    Strategy
    Being able to customize the performance based on the business need is extremely powerful. Proper configuration and understanding of the usage pattern is key, if the technical ability of the architect is not at top level, then the product will not be configured correctly which will lead to poor performance.
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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
    Strategy
    Good user community. Support team is available if you are under AMC. You get decent support after raising the support ticket. If it is product bug they will inform you and let you know which patch will resolve the same.
    Incentivized
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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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    Online Training
    Strategy
    I have attended many trainings offered by MicroStrategy; both distance and in-person training. I earned my CRD (Certified Report Developer) certification via the online training. I found the training to be well organized and concise. Overall I will definitely continue to increase my knowledge with MicroStrategy via the online training offering.
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    Zoho
    No answers on this topic
    Implementation Rating
    Strategy
    We measured following KPI for the success
    • Increase in Business Feeds Loads
    • Reduction in Controllers Manual Work.
    • Conversion of Manual Work into Systematic Workflows.
    • Increase in Customer Spend
    • Reduction in Service costs
    • Reduction in time-to-market for new campaigns
    • Increase in cross sell and Up sell
    • Error reduction in customer Identification
    • Existing client retained
    Incentivized
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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
    Strategy
    Tableau is probably MicroStrategy Analytic's biggest competitor I've noticed over time, and I'm not sure why. Tableau only covers visualizations independently for each business user, which then creates the issues of every employee creating their own version of the data, and then you have 20 versions of the truth. A enterprise data warehouse and MicroStrategy's Visual Insight is a better method.
    Incentivized
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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
    Strategy
    This software is extremely scaleable, one can add more core servers which performs as a load balancing. The configurations available to manage usage patterns and daily activity are as high a caliber as any other enterprise level software. This product can be installed on both a windows and unix platform allow for integration on a budget.
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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
    Strategy
    • MicroStrategy was helpful for reducing the amount of time we needed to spend number crunching large data sets, and in doing so, allowed me as the primary users to spend more time gleaning insights from the data that in turn informed our leadership team to make strategic decisions.
    • By creating numerous canned reports available to all members of the team through email distribution or basic access to the platform, we were able to reduce the time I spent showing people how to pull the data in Microsoft Excel by nearly 40% .
    • We ended up needing to make many changes to the way our DMP was feeding data into MicroStrategy due to incorrect reporting that caused complications in accounting and finance.
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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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    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