Yellowfin vs. Zoho Analytics

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
Yellowfin
Score 7.7 out of 10
Mid-Size Companies (51-1,000 employees)
Yellowfin is a cloud-based business intelligence and dashboarding platform.
$250
per month
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
YellowfinZoho Analytics
Editions & Modules
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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
YellowfinZoho Analytics
Free Trial
YesYes
Free/Freemium Version
YesYes
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
YesYes
Entry-level Setup FeeOptionalNo 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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Community Pulse
YellowfinZoho Analytics
Considered Both Products
Yellowfin

No answer on this topic

Zoho Analytics
Chose Zoho Analytics
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 …
Top Pros
Top Cons
Features
YellowfinZoho Analytics
BI Standard Reporting
Comparison of BI Standard Reporting features of Product A and Product B
Yellowfin
6.2
12 Ratings
28% below category average
Zoho Analytics
8.3
111 Ratings
1% above category average
Pixel Perfect reports5.85 Ratings8.189 Ratings
Customizable dashboards6.212 Ratings8.5111 Ratings
Report Formatting Templates6.511 Ratings00 Ratings
Ad-hoc Reporting
Comparison of Ad-hoc Reporting features of Product A and Product B
Yellowfin
6.7
12 Ratings
19% below category average
Zoho Analytics
8.0
114 Ratings
1% below category average
Drill-down analysis6.711 Ratings8.0109 Ratings
Formatting capabilities7.112 Ratings7.5113 Ratings
Integration with R or other statistical packages6.38 Ratings00 Ratings
Report sharing and collaboration6.511 Ratings8.5114 Ratings
Report Output and Scheduling
Comparison of Report Output and Scheduling features of Product A and Product B
Yellowfin
5.9
11 Ratings
34% below category average
Zoho Analytics
8.7
107 Ratings
4% above category average
Publish to Web6.411 Ratings8.590 Ratings
Publish to PDF6.211 Ratings8.7106 Ratings
Report Versioning5.89 Ratings00 Ratings
Report Delivery Scheduling5.711 Ratings8.893 Ratings
Delivery to Remote Servers5.55 Ratings00 Ratings
Data Discovery and Visualization
Comparison of Data Discovery and Visualization features of Product A and Product B
Yellowfin
5.9
12 Ratings
31% below category average
Zoho Analytics
7.9
60 Ratings
2% below category average
Pre-built visualization formats (heatmaps, scatter plots etc.)6.012 Ratings7.957 Ratings
Location Analytics / Geographic Visualization5.812 Ratings8.053 Ratings
Predictive Analytics5.810 Ratings7.746 Ratings
Access Control and Security
Comparison of Access Control and Security features of Product A and Product B
Yellowfin
6.3
11 Ratings
31% below category average
Zoho Analytics
8.5
105 Ratings
1% below category average
Multi-User Support (named login)6.311 Ratings8.9104 Ratings
Role-Based Security Model6.510 Ratings8.652 Ratings
Multiple Access Permission Levels (Create, Read, Delete)6.410 Ratings8.599 Ratings
Single Sign-On (SSO)5.94 Ratings8.653 Ratings
Report-Level Access Control00 Ratings8.19 Ratings
Mobile Capabilities
Comparison of Mobile Capabilities features of Product A and Product B
Yellowfin
6.7
8 Ratings
18% below category average
Zoho Analytics
7.6
77 Ratings
5% below category average
Responsive Design for Web Access6.25 Ratings7.853 Ratings
Mobile Application6.48 Ratings7.357 Ratings
Dashboard / Report / Visualization Interactivity on Mobile6.28 Ratings7.368 Ratings
Application Program Interfaces (APIs) / Embedding
Comparison of Application Program Interfaces (APIs) / Embedding features of Product A and Product B
Yellowfin
6.2
5 Ratings
24% below category average
Zoho Analytics
7.9
46 Ratings
0% below category average
REST API6.15 Ratings8.242 Ratings
Javascript API5.45 Ratings00 Ratings
iFrames6.05 Ratings7.637 Ratings
Java API6.35 Ratings00 Ratings
Themeable User Interface (UI)6.55 Ratings00 Ratings
Customizable Platform (Open Source)6.55 Ratings00 Ratings
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User Ratings
YellowfinZoho Analytics
Likelihood to Recommend
6.3
(12 ratings)
8.4
(115 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew
-
(0 ratings)
8.7
(7 ratings)
Usability
6.4
(7 ratings)
8.3
(59 ratings)
Availability
9.1
(1 ratings)
9.1
(1 ratings)
Performance
8.2
(1 ratings)
9.1
(1 ratings)
Support Rating
5.7
(7 ratings)
7.4
(17 ratings)
In-Person Training
9.1
(1 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Online Training
8.2
(1 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Implementation Rating
9.1
(1 ratings)
9.0
(2 ratings)
Configurability
8.2
(1 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Ease of integration
9.1
(1 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Product Scalability
8.2
(1 ratings)
8.3
(47 ratings)
Vendor post-sale
9.1
(1 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Vendor pre-sale
9.1
(1 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
User Testimonials
YellowfinZoho Analytics
Likelihood to Recommend
Yellowfin
We can recommend this software without hesitation, as it has the ability to generate reports and data analysis, as well as process the data automatically, which saves time. It is ideal for small and medium-sized companies that wish to improve their services in the business world
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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
Yellowfin
  • Yellowfin’s Storyboard, Timeline and Collaborative tools make it easy to share data and insights across an organisation.
  • Strong Operational and Executive Dashboards that reflect the business KPIs and can send out prompts to people within the business based on rules.
  • Yellowfin makes it incredibly easy to create dynamic reports and dashboards which incorporate maps through locational intelligence functionality.
  • Yellowfin is a single license and all access is via a web browser making it perfect for both on-premise and cloud deployment. Mobile apps are also available.
  • User roles and source filtering allows Admin/IT to offer different functions/views by user group/role.
  • Mobile BI applications to support any device ..
  • API connectors ( YF 7.2 on the way in Mar16 ) for a range of third-party Web-based applications, data sources, Enterprises CRM/ERP apps & open data platform apps, including Salesforce, Google Analytics, Twitter, Youtube , Zoho CRM, XE.com & more coming to make endusers to integrate their applications for better benefits
  • Yellowfin Integration with Predictive analytical and Big Data processing tools like R, UDF, Spark to build rich applications for end users
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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
Yellowfin
  • The ability to predefine a colour for a specific graph as a selection option dynamically.
  • The ability to customise the label of a chart, especially with respect to performance related reporting graphs we need an increase in dynamic charting options to meet our more specialised requirements.
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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
Yellowfin
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
Yellowfin
As mentioned previously, if a newer company is looking for a strong, polished BI tool, Yellowfin would be a great software vendor to consider. Unfortunately, the high cost might be a barrier to these newer companies who dont have any legacy software/agreements such as an EA agreement with Microsoft.
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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
Yellowfin
99.9% availability
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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
Yellowfin
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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
Yellowfin
They have good support in what they provide. But what they provide is not what is promised. I would stay with them if I can. Be very careful before signing up with them. They are not what they seem in the sales pitches. Be very careful and make sure you test and test before you sign up.
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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
Yellowfin
Yellowfin provides 3 levels of training to support consumers, business analytics, developers and Administrations :
  1. Yellowfin BI Training - Level 1 (Exploration)
  2. Yellowfin BI Training - Level 2 (Advanced)
  3. Yellowfin BI Training - Level 3(Expert)
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Zoho
No answers on this topic
Online Training
Yellowfin
Web-based training for large audiences for Level 1 and Level 2 I would suggest
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Zoho
No answers on this topic
Implementation Rating
Yellowfin
Design the data model and views for each dashboard is very important and it is the success factor Configuration of cluster for large implementation
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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
Yellowfin
Yellow Fin platform is browser agnostic and is accessible from desktops as well as mobile devices. It is very simple and fast, it is integrated with Big Data, clients do not require a great training. It just works. But it’s easier to have things on the cloud, especially if you need to use different computers. Yellow Fin lacks the cloud feature.
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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
Yellowfin
- Tested 500 con-current users in Linux platform with 4 cores systems - Tested with cloud based VM - Tested with 1000 reads per minutes
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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
Yellowfin
  • Yellowfin gives us a BI tool that is incredibly sleek, which leads our data to be clean, concise, and in an "easy-to-digest" format.
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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

Yellowfin Screenshots

Screenshot of Location IntelligenceScreenshot of Yellowfin DashboardScreenshot of Yellowfin SignalsScreenshot of Yellowfin MobileScreenshot of Yellowfin Sales KPIs

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.