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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    Tableau Server

    Score7.5 out of 10
    N/ATableau Server allows Tableau Desktop users to publish dashboards to a central server to be shared across their organizations. The product is designed to facilitate collaboration across the organization. It can be deployed on a server in the data center, or it can be deployed on a public cloud.

    $12

    Per User Per Month

    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
    Tableau ServerZoho Analytics
    Editions & Modules
    Viewer
    $12.00
    Per User Per Month
    Explorer
    $35.00
    Per User Per Month
    Creator
    $70.00
    Per User Per Month
    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
    Tableau ServerZoho Analytics
    Free Trial
    YesYes
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoYes
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    YesYes
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
    Additional Details—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
    Tableau ServerZoho Analytics
    Considered Both Products
    Tableau
    No answer on this topic
    Zoho
    No answer on this topic
    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
    75%
    Would buy again
    6 Answers
    95%
    Would buy again
    78 Answers
    Delivers good value for the price
    75%
    Delivers good value for the price
    6 Answers
    96%
    Delivers good value for the price
    71 Answers
    Happy with the feature set
    88%
    Happy with the feature set
    7 Answers
    96%
    Happy with the feature set
    79 Answers
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    No answers on this topic
    96%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    70 Answers
    Implementation went as expected
    71%
    Implementation went as expected
    5 Answers
    95%
    Implementation went as expected
    72 Answers
    Features
    Tableau ServerZoho Analytics
    BI Standard Reporting
    Comparison of BI Standard Reporting features of Tableau Server and Zoho Analytics
    Feature
    Tableau Server
    8.4
    95 Ratings
    3% above category average
    Zoho Analytics
    8.6
    135 Ratings
    5% above category average
    Pixel Perfect reports9.129 Ratings8.8106 Ratings
    Customizable dashboards7.094 Ratings8.5135 Ratings
    Report Formatting Templates9.081 Ratings00 Ratings
    Ad-hoc Reporting
    Comparison of Ad-hoc Reporting features of Tableau Server and Zoho Analytics
    Feature
    Tableau Server
    7.8
    95 Ratings
    3% below category average
    Zoho Analytics
    8.1
    137 Ratings
    1% above category average
    Drill-down analysis8.095 Ratings8.0131 Ratings
    Formatting capabilities8.093 Ratings7.6136 Ratings
    Integration with R or other statistical packages8.059 Ratings00 Ratings
    Report sharing and collaboration7.089 Ratings8.6137 Ratings
    Report Output and Scheduling
    Comparison of Report Output and Scheduling features of Tableau Server and Zoho Analytics
    Feature
    Tableau Server
    7.2
    91 Ratings
    13% below category average
    Zoho Analytics
    8.4
    129 Ratings
    2% above category average
    Publish to Web8.085 Ratings8.2108 Ratings
    Publish to PDF7.084 Ratings8.6127 Ratings
    Report Versioning8.070 Ratings00 Ratings
    Report Delivery Scheduling8.077 Ratings8.4112 Ratings
    Delivery to Remote Servers5.19 Ratings00 Ratings
    Data Discovery and Visualization
    Comparison of Data Discovery and Visualization features of Tableau Server and Zoho Analytics
    Feature
    Tableau Server
    8.3
    90 Ratings
    4% above category average
    Zoho Analytics
    8.0
    84 Ratings
    0% above category average
    Pre-built visualization formats (heatmaps, scatter plots etc.)9.086 Ratings8.280 Ratings
    Location Analytics / Geographic Visualization8.085 Ratings8.572 Ratings
    Predictive Analytics8.064 Ratings7.566 Ratings
    Pattern Recognition and Data Mining8.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    Access Control and Security
    Comparison of Access Control and Security features of Tableau Server and Zoho Analytics
    Feature
    Tableau Server
    10.0
    95 Ratings
    16% above category average
    Zoho Analytics
    8.5
    129 Ratings
    0% above category average
    Multi-User Support (named login)10.093 Ratings8.6127 Ratings
    Role-Based Security Model10.090 Ratings8.972 Ratings
    Multiple Access Permission Levels (Create, Read, Delete)10.092 Ratings8.5122 Ratings
    Report-Level Access Control10.01 Ratings8.030 Ratings
    Single Sign-On (SSO)10.062 Ratings8.574 Ratings
    Mobile Capabilities
    Comparison of Mobile Capabilities features of Tableau Server and Zoho Analytics
    Feature
    Tableau Server
    8.1
    79 Ratings
    5% above category average
    Zoho Analytics
    6.4
    97 Ratings
    18% below category average
    Responsive Design for Web Access10.077 Ratings7.371 Ratings
    Mobile Application7.061 Ratings4.373 Ratings
    Dashboard / Report / Visualization Interactivity on Mobile7.068 Ratings5.986 Ratings
    Application Program Interfaces (APIs) / Embedding
    Comparison of Application Program Interfaces (APIs) / Embedding features of Tableau Server and Zoho Analytics
    Feature
    Tableau Server
    6.4
    46 Ratings
    19% below category average
    Zoho Analytics
    8.3
    65 Ratings
    7% above category average
    REST API8.040 Ratings8.161 Ratings
    Javascript API8.037 Ratings00 Ratings
    iFrames6.040 Ratings8.553 Ratings
    Java API5.57 Ratings00 Ratings
    Themeable User Interface (UI)6.19 Ratings00 Ratings
    Customizable Platform (Open Source)4.67 Ratings00 Ratings
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    Cyfe
    Score4 out of 10
    Cyfe
    Score4 out of 10
    Medium-sized Companies
    Qlik Cloud Analytics (Qlik Sense)
    Score8.1 out of 10
    Qlik Cloud Analytics (Qlik Sense)
    Score8.1 out of 10
    Enterprises
    Jaspersoft Community Edition
    Score7 out of 10
    Jaspersoft Community Edition
    Score7 out of 10
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    User Ratings
    Tableau ServerZoho Analytics
    Likelihood to Recommend
    8.0
    (111 ratings)
    7.2
    (139 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    10.0
    (20 ratings)
    8.9
    (9 ratings)
    Usability
    8.0
    (17 ratings)
    7.8
    (83 ratings)
    Availability
    9.0
    (9 ratings)
    9.1
    (1 ratings)
    Performance
    8.1
    (8 ratings)
    9.1
    (2 ratings)
    Support Rating
    3.0
    (18 ratings)
    5.4
    (18 ratings)
    In-Person Training
    8.0
    (4 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Online Training
    9.0
    (9 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Implementation Rating
    9.1
    (13 ratings)
    5.5
    (3 ratings)
    Configurability
    8.0
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Data Sharing and Collaboration
    5.1
    (79 ratings)
    7.7
    (51 ratings)
    Data Sources
    6.6
    (82 ratings)
    8.8
    (51 ratings)
    Ease of integration
    -
    (0 ratings)
    7.3
    (1 ratings)
    Product Scalability
    -
    (0 ratings)
    7.2
    (71 ratings)
    Vendor post-sale
    -
    (0 ratings)
    7.3
    (1 ratings)
    Vendor pre-sale
    -
    (0 ratings)
    8.2
    (1 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    Tableau ServerZoho Analytics
    Likelihood to Recommend
    Tableau
    Whole funnel and specific channel performance from upper to lower funnel metrics. The ability to view full channel performance for some time, such as weekly, monthly, or quarterly, has truly been monumental in how my team optimizes specific channels and campaigns. Daily performance tracking is a bit overwhelming, with load times and having to refresh specific live views over time. It can be challenging to do so at times, as extensive dashboards take much longer to load.
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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
    Tableau
    • It's good at doing what it is designed for: accessing visualizations without having to download and open a workbook in Tableau Desktop. The latter would be a very inefficient method for sharing our metrics, so I am glad that we have Tableau Server to serve this function.
    • Publishing to Tableau Server is quick and easy. Just a few clicks from Tableau Desktop and a few seconds of publishing through an average speed network, and the new visualizations are live!
    • Seeing details on who has viewed the visualization and when. This is something particularly useful to me for trying to drive adoption of some new pages, so I really appreciate the granularity provided in Tableau Server
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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
    Tableau
    • Tableau Server has had some issue handling some of our larger data sets. Our extract refreshes fail intermittently with no obvious error that we can fix
    • Tableau Server has been hard to work with before they launched their new Rest API, which is also a little tricky to work with
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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
    Tableau
    It simply is used all the time by more and more people. Migrating to something else would involve lots of work and lots of training. The renewal fee being fair, it simply isn't worth migrating to a different tool for now.
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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
    Tableau
    Tableau Server takes training and experience in order to unlock the application's full potential. This is best handled by a qualified data scientist or data analytics manager. Tableau user interface layout, nomenclature, and command structure take time and training to become proficient with. Integration and connectivity require proper IT developer support.
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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
    Tableau
    Our instance of Tableau Server was hosted on premises (I believe all instances are) so if there were any outages it was normally due to scheduled maintenance on our end. If the Tableau server ever went down, a quick restart solved most issues
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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
    Tableau
    While there are definitely cases where a user can do things that will make a particular worksheet or dashboard run slowly, overall the performance is extremely fast. The user experience of exploratory analysis particularly shines, there's nothing out there with the polish of Tableau.
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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
    Tableau
    We have consistently had highly satisfactory results every time we've reached out for help. Our contractor, used for Tableau server maintenance and dashboard development is very technically skilled. When he hits a roadblock on how to do something with Tableau, the support staff have provided timely and useful guidance. He frequently compares it to Cognos and says that while Cognos has capabilities Tableau doesn't, the bottom line value for us is a no-brainer
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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
    Tableau
    In our case, they hired a private third party consultant to train our dept. It was extremely boring and felt like it dragged on. Everything I learned was self taught so I was not really paying attention. But I do think that you can easily spend a week on the tool and go over every nook and cranny. We only had the consultant in for a day or two.
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    Zoho
    No answers on this topic
    Online Training
    Tableau
    The Tableau website is full of videos that you can follow at your own pace. As a very small company with a Tableau install, access to these free resources was incredibly useful to allowing me to implement Tableau to its potential in a reasonable and proportionate manner.
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    Zoho
    No answers on this topic
    Implementation Rating
    Tableau
    Implementation was over the phone with the vendor, and did not go particularly well. Again, think this was our fault as our integration and IT oversight was poor, and we made errors. Would they have happened had a vendor been onsite? Not sure, probably not, but we probably wouldn't have paid for that either
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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
    Tableau
    Today, if my shop is largely Microsoft-centric, I would be hard pressed to choose a product other than Power BI. Tableau was the visualization leader for years, but Microsoft has caught up with them in many areas, and surpassed them in some. Its ability to source, transform, and model data is superior to Tableau. Tableau still has the lead in some visualizations, but Power BI's rise is evidenced by its ever-increasing position in the leadership section of the Gartner Magic Quadrant.
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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
    Tableau
    No answers on this topic
    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
    Tableau
    • Tableau does take dedicated FTE to create and analyze the data. It's too complex (and powerful) a product not to have someone dedicated to developing with it.
    • There are some significant setup for the server product.
    • Once sever setup is complete, it's largely "fire and forget" until an update is necessary. The server update process is cumbersome.
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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

    Tableau Server Screenshots

    Screenshot of Tableau Server interface and administration view 1.Screenshot of Tableau Server interface and administration view 2.Screenshot of Tableau Server permissions view.Screenshot of Tableau Services Manager (TSM) view 1.Screenshot of Tableau Services Manager (TSM) view 2.

    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