Sisense vs. Zoho Analytics

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
Sisense
Score 8.3 out of 10
N/A
Sisense is a BI software and analytics platform. With what the vendor calls their In-Chip™ and Single Stack™ technologies, users have access to a comprehensive tool to analyze and visualize large, disparate data sets without IT resources.N/A
Zoho Analytics
Score 8.1 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
SisenseZoho Analytics
Editions & Modules
No answers on this topic
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
SisenseZoho Analytics
Free Trial
YesYes
Free/Freemium Version
NoYes
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
YesYes
Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
Additional DetailsMust contact sales team for pricing.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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Community Pulse
SisenseZoho Analytics
Considered Both Products
Sisense
Chose Sisense
Sisense does very well against most of the tools in the market. We chose this tool because of its great visualizations and easy to deploy procedures. The reports are very easy to generate and distribute them across departments and organization. It provides a great interface to …
Zoho Analytics
Chose Zoho Analytics
Substantially more cost-effective and very similar functionality. The graphs and dashboards are definitely not as pretty as the ones mentioned above but we found it hard to justify tens of thousands of dollars more.
Chose Zoho Analytics
Quality of Support is superior to any other solution. Adding an unbeatable price, it's been a no-brainer for us to select Zoho
Chose Zoho Analytics
Zoho Reports has the features that we were looking for -
  • Import of data from an API endpoint in JSON format (no specific schema)
  • Scheduled imports
Top Pros
Top Cons
Features
SisenseZoho Analytics
BI Standard Reporting
Comparison of BI Standard Reporting features of Product A and Product B
Sisense
8.7
46 Ratings
6% above category average
Zoho Analytics
8.3
111 Ratings
1% above category average
Pixel Perfect reports8.036 Ratings8.289 Ratings
Customizable dashboards9.046 Ratings8.5111 Ratings
Report Formatting Templates9.032 Ratings00 Ratings
Ad-hoc Reporting
Comparison of Ad-hoc Reporting features of Product A and Product B
Sisense
8.3
46 Ratings
2% above category average
Zoho Analytics
8.0
114 Ratings
1% below category average
Drill-down analysis8.046 Ratings8.0109 Ratings
Formatting capabilities9.046 Ratings7.5113 Ratings
Integration with R or other statistical packages9.026 Ratings00 Ratings
Report sharing and collaboration7.33 Ratings8.5114 Ratings
Report Output and Scheduling
Comparison of Report Output and Scheduling features of Product A and Product B
Sisense
8.2
45 Ratings
2% below category average
Zoho Analytics
8.7
107 Ratings
4% above category average
Publish to Web8.035 Ratings8.590 Ratings
Publish to PDF9.045 Ratings8.7106 Ratings
Report Versioning8.023 Ratings00 Ratings
Report Delivery Scheduling8.038 Ratings8.893 Ratings
Data Discovery and Visualization
Comparison of Data Discovery and Visualization features of Product A and Product B
Sisense
9.0
44 Ratings
11% above category average
Zoho Analytics
7.9
60 Ratings
2% below category average
Pre-built visualization formats (heatmaps, scatter plots etc.)9.044 Ratings8.057 Ratings
Location Analytics / Geographic Visualization9.041 Ratings8.153 Ratings
Predictive Analytics9.028 Ratings7.846 Ratings
Access Control and Security
Comparison of Access Control and Security features of Product A and Product B
Sisense
10.0
44 Ratings
15% above category average
Zoho Analytics
8.5
105 Ratings
1% below category average
Multi-User Support (named login)10.044 Ratings8.9104 Ratings
Role-Based Security Model10.043 Ratings8.652 Ratings
Multiple Access Permission Levels (Create, Read, Delete)10.044 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
Sisense
9.0
39 Ratings
12% above category average
Zoho Analytics
7.6
77 Ratings
5% below category average
Responsive Design for Web Access9.039 Ratings7.853 Ratings
Mobile Application10.024 Ratings7.357 Ratings
Dashboard / Report / Visualization Interactivity on Mobile8.033 Ratings7.368 Ratings
Application Program Interfaces (APIs) / Embedding
Comparison of Application Program Interfaces (APIs) / Embedding features of Product A and Product B
Sisense
-
Ratings
Zoho Analytics
7.8
46 Ratings
2% below category average
REST API00 Ratings8.242 Ratings
iFrames00 Ratings7.537 Ratings
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User Ratings
SisenseZoho Analytics
Likelihood to Recommend
6.1
(57 ratings)
8.4
(115 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew
8.9
(14 ratings)
8.8
(7 ratings)
Usability
8.0
(5 ratings)
8.3
(59 ratings)
Availability
8.2
(1 ratings)
9.1
(1 ratings)
Performance
8.2
(1 ratings)
9.1
(1 ratings)
Support Rating
9.0
(6 ratings)
7.6
(17 ratings)
In-Person Training
7.3
(1 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Online Training
8.2
(1 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Implementation Rating
7.1
(3 ratings)
9.0
(2 ratings)
Configurability
8.2
(1 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Ease of integration
8.2
(1 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Product Scalability
8.2
(1 ratings)
8.4
(47 ratings)
Vendor post-sale
9.1
(1 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Vendor pre-sale
9.1
(1 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
User Testimonials
SisenseZoho Analytics
Likelihood to Recommend
Sisense Ltd
I believe Sisense is perfectly suited for any organization of any size that have access to the proper resources, as the tool is very expensive. The data connectors come in all shapes and sizes out of the box, which allows a great deal of data control within the ElastiCubes. Additionally, while the platform only runs on Windows platforms, the web application can be accessed on any client: mobile, Apple, Windows, etc. This allows a much more flexible user experience, resulting in data and dashboards reaching further than any other tool.
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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
Sisense Ltd
  • Customization - lots of supported and community plugins available. Users can also adjust the look and feel through JavaScript.
  • Innovation - Sisense is continuing to push the envelope by developing new features through Sisense Labs.
  • Customer support - the commitment to excellent customer service and ensuring organizations get the most out of their investment.
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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
Sisense Ltd
  • The usability of the application on mobile devices needs some improvement, especially navigation and filtering.
  • Dashboards that are created by multiple users can be a bit of a hassle to share by Admins.
  • If you need to embed dashboards into your website, you are require to buy a license separate from the user and platform license. This is a norm on most BI visualization tools, but Sisense can seem a bit on the high side, cost-wide.
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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
Sisense Ltd
I think the business and myself as a user has come to rely on SiSense as a dashboarding and quick ad-hoc reporting tool. I am hoping to integrate SiSense dashboards into more parts of the business in the future. We have reduced our report turn-around time for the most part from hours/days to minutes and in some cases almost the speed of thought. Reports are also easier on the eye and more easily distributed. I would also like to say that the support and professionalism from the SiSense team has been excellent.
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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
Sisense Ltd
New V5 is ground floor of an exciting collection of possibilities. Weekly Sisense developers come up with new functionality that they share with us in their forums. The move to HTML5 has been pleasing in that widgets auto size themselves into appropriate forms in the board but everyone of them can be popped out to full page size to be looked at in more detail
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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
Sisense Ltd
There are very few situations when there is unexpected downtime. Mostly during development, new dashboard implementation and during upgrades. other then that there were very few crashes.
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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
Sisense Ltd
SiSense is usually performing better then other solutions even if going for complex reports/dashboards(of course within reasonable frames). I haven't noticed any bad influence on other systems, usually if something happens it stays within SiSense.
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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
Sisense Ltd
SiSense's support ninjas are very knowledgeable and are exceptionally responsive. So far, all of the issues we ran into were resolved within minimum time. My sense of dealing with the support staff at SiSense is that they are very focused on not just answering your immediate question, but also to delve into the cause of the matter.
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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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In-Person Training
Sisense Ltd
Easy and free training that allowed us quickly understand basics in SiSense and start using them. More advanced features requires some browsing through SiSense forums, but there is always support to help, and SiSense support is one of the best whith which I worked so far.
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Zoho
No answers on this topic
Online Training
Sisense Ltd
Many examples, videos and scenarios which you try on your own right away. This combined with in-person training gives you enough to utilize most of SiSense's power.
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Zoho
No answers on this topic
Implementation Rating
Sisense Ltd
Remember to migrate the plugins. The documentation however is pretty straight forward.
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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
Sisense Ltd
1) Easy to use, really, there is nothing too much to say. The set up is easy and not confusing. You can use it internally or externally.
2) Customer Service, having spoken to various product reps from similar industry. Sisense rep provides you with the best support to get started, and it is really appreciated.
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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
Sisense Ltd
Product is quite easily scalable. The whole installation can be easily moved to stronger machine if needed.
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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
Sisense Ltd
  • Report development time is reduced from 2~3 days to 2~3 hours.
  • Report querying time is improved from 0.5~10 mins to 2~30 seconds.
  • A 2-staff team delivers 10 times the BI output that we did on the old system.
  • We were able to deliver BI and data analysis for all business functions instead of a very limited group of users
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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.