Tableau vs Zoho Analytics comparison

Salesforce and Zoho are both solutions in the Reporting category. Salesforce is ranked #2 with an average rating of 8.6, while Zoho is ranked #10 with an average rating of 7.6. Salesforce holds a 23.7% mindshare in RT, compared to Zoho’s 0.5% mindshare. Additionally, 89% of Salesforce users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 92% of Zoho users who would recommend it.

Tableau

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Jan 1, 2025

Tableau and Zoho Analytics are competing in the business intelligence and data analytics category. Tableau seems to have an edge in data visualization capabilities while Zoho Analytics excels in affordability and integration with Zoho tools.

Features: Tableau is known for its advanced data visualization functionalities, including superior geospatial analysis, automatic data updates, and drag-and-drop analytics. It supports a wide variety of data sources, allowing seamless integration and data blending. Zoho Analytics focuses on user-friendliness, robust integration capabilities with other Zoho tools, and easy setup processes that cater to users with limited technical expertise.

Room for Improvement: Tableau users report the need for better performance with large datasets, more intuitive predictive analytics, and enhanced ETL functionalities. Zoho Analytics faces criticism for its limited depth in data visualization and analytics, which may not meet complex analysis requirements.

Ease of Deployment and Customer Service: Tableau offers flexible deployment options, including on-premises, public, and hybrid cloud solutions, backed by generally responsive customer service, though some users mention inconsistent support. Zoho Analytics also provides deployment flexibility with a focus on seamless cloud integration and supportive customer service, although opinions on responsiveness vary.

Pricing and ROI: Tableau's pricing is relatively high, with core-based and user-based licensing models potentially costly for larger organizations. It offers enhanced insights and productivity gains, justifying the investment mainly for larger enterprises. Zoho Analytics provides more budget-friendly pricing, appealing to cost-conscious users, albeit with a trade-off in advanced features compared to Tableau.

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Categories and Ranking

Tableau

Ranking in BI (Business Intelligence) Tools

2nd

Ranking in Reporting

2nd

Ranking in Data Visualization

1st

Ranking in Embedded BI

1st

Average Rating

8.4

Reviews Sentiment

6.4

Number of Reviews

295

Ranking in other categories

No ranking in other categories

Zoho Analytics

Ranking in BI (Business Intelligence) Tools

15th

Ranking in Reporting

10th

Ranking in Data Visualization

10th

Ranking in Embedded BI

7th

Average Rating

8.4

Reviews Sentiment

7.5

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

No ranking in other categories

Mindshare comparison

As of January 2025, in the Reporting category, the mindshare of Tableau is 23.7%, up from 22.6% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Zoho Analytics is 0.5%, down from 0.6% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

Reporting

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ROMIL SHAH

Deputy General Manger - Information Technology at Nayara Energy

Provides fast data access with in-memory extracts, makes it easy to create visualizations, and saves time

When it comes to visualizations, Tableau has a limitation as compared to Power BI. It has a limited set of visualizations. Power BI has the entire marketplace, so you can connect and import many visualizations and use them, whereas Tableau has only 10 or 15 visualizations. There should be more visualizations, and there should also be data integration with more cloud providers. Tableau has recently launched a paid version for the documentation. So, documentation has become a little bit challenging when it comes to Tableau development because we do not have any tool to export the data out of it. It is a license-based feature that you need to purchase to prepare documentation. So, on the documentation front, for preparing clear documentation for any dashboard, it would help if we get an embedded option, rather than buying a license for each user for the documentation. To document anything, if I have to connect to each workbook and see what has been written as a formula and then document in the Word document, it is pretty time-consuming. We have the Microsoft stack, and we are currently evaluating Power BI because Tableau has a limitation of 50 columns for a drill-down report. If we want more than 50 columns, we have found a hack, but there is no ready-made option for doing it. So, we have to use another tool in case we need a drilled report with more than 50 columns. There are many instances where users need 80 or 90 columns for their analysis, and switching between two technologies becomes a challenge. It is not a cost-effective approach for us. Their support should be improved. We are not happy with their support. Whenever we raised queries, we were pointed to a few blogs, and we didn't get a proper solution from them. Their licensing should also be improved. They want us to purchase a Tableau Creator license for business users, whereas Power BI Desktop is free for business users. They should come up with a basic license with one or two connectors that our business users can use for preparing their visualizations. Tableau also charges us per user for users who want the data only through email.

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Yogesh Kumar Mali

Managing Director at ALPHA LABS TECH PVT LTD

An easy-to-set up solution that helps in the scheduling of reports and dashboards

A lot of integrations are available with Zoho Analytics. There is a limitation that we cannot create more than 300 columns in a worksheet on Zoho Analytics. The data can be in millions. There are some limitations on the reports that depend on the various combinations of data you get. So there is always an error that gets thrown out if you are building complex reports.

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Quotes from Members

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:

Pros

"It is a complete solution allowing a lot of integrations, different graphics, multiple operations and analyzes our date and gives us meaning from it."

"Tableau has data relationships that can be applied to a data source which helps build out a directory which is helpful. Data blending has also been valuable to us."

"Good data flow and management."

"It has been the best tool to work with from a self-service point of view."

"Tableau has comprehensive, insightful charts, which allow you to build stunning dashboards and enrich your support decision-making."

"Self-service is most valuable. Users can pick up quickly and do the resolution. There are a lot of out-of-the-box features, and it satisfies most of the needs. If users are properly trained, they can deal with any situation."

"It's very easy to use and users don't need any IT support to access it as the information is right there."

"The most valuable features are data discovery and fine visualizations."

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"We can create advanced-level reports with the tool. We can get data from different Zoho applications and also from other third-party applications. We can create schedules for syncing data from third parties to Zoho Analytics. We can also use table queries for getting data from more than one table."

"The tool's most valuable feature is its dashboard."

"We moved the data from Zoho Creator to Zoho Analytics and created reports."

"We really like that it's user friendly and has a lot of combinations and charts. They're good compared to other tools. We used a free Elastic product, comparatively, this solution is good because of their support, UI, and connecting to databases is very easy."

"Zoho Analytics is the best software for giving reports to customers and we can create any report that is required."

"Scheduling of reports and dashboards is the most valuable feature of Zoho Analytics."

"The integration interface is very easy to use and allows you to directly connect to a variety of APIs."

"The initial setup is straightforward."

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Cons

"When we put more information on a single screen, it gets compressed and superimposed in many places while scrolling."

"The data preparation could integrate better with Tableau."

"Other tools are more competitively priced."

"I take a long time to process the hundreds of thousands or millions of records that must be processed every day."

"It needs more ETL capabilities, to be able to address the end-to-end BI need."

"Lacks machine learning algorithms that you can implement using R, SPSS Modeler, and Python."

"Some of our clients are looking for better UI when using Tableau as they often work with this solution directly."

"At the organizational level, increasing the servers' capabilities to support us as an enterprise tool."

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"It would be great to have more user input fields which can be used on dashboards."

"I like the solution's Query Table feature which helps me write SQL queries. We can get data from different tables and then use it to create reports."

"There is a limitation that we cannot create more than 300 columns in a worksheet on Zoho Analytics."

"The hourly pricing needs improvement."

"The support for Zoho Analytics is pathetic."

"They should provide white labeling with a cheaper option. I know they have a white labeling feature in which I can white label Zoho Analytics with my company theme, logo, and URL, but it seems a little expensive. If they can make it cheaper, it would be great. The same is applicable to Tableau."

"The improvement needed is regarding the number of API calls. Currently, Zoho Analytics only allows us to update data hourly. It would be much better to have updates more frequently every half an hour."

"The solution does not provide call center facilities for customer support."

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Pricing and Cost Advice

"The price of this solution could definitely be lower. It's quite expensive."

"For data extraction and analysis, Tableau is better than any other tool I have used with the same pricing model."

"Its price is a concern. It is more expensive than Power BI. My guess would be that it is $1000 or less per year. We might go for Power BI in the future because of its umbrella with Microsoft licensing. It is much cheaper for us to use Power BI, and some folks will go in that direction because they don't want to pay the higher license."

"Tableau is an expensive solution, though it comes with its advantages."

"It is a bit overpriced."

"For big business, Tableau could be expensive as having a lot of Tableau server users (entering with a browser to reports) could be a bit expensive."

"Pricing could be better. I believe they should offer better pricing for deployment in small to mid-sized companies."

"We are on an annual license which costs us $1,400 which is very expensive. Microsft BI is less expensive."

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"It is very reasonable, and it gives me a good return on investment. Compared to other tools, it is the best choice in terms of pricing."

"An exact ROI is hard to calculate. However, we have definitely made sales that would have been much harder, or unlikely, as a result of the speed with which we were able to prepare comprehensive analysis."

"The price is high. The solution advertises that it provides products for 55 AED per user, but these products contain only the basic features. Most of the features are locked. The version of the product that includes Zoho Analytics costs around 199 AED per user per month."

"The product's licensing is reasonable."

"Zoho Analytics costs $ 4,200 per month, billed yearly."

"For one license the pricing is about $35 a user."

"The pricing is okay. It is fair compared to the market."

"I would recommend looking at your usage and whether the Zoho One license model would work for your organisation. It is very cost effective if you use other Zoho tools."

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Top Industries

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Educational Organization

42%

Financial Services Firm

10%

Computer Software Company

Manufacturing Company

Educational Organization

79%

Computer Software Company

Financial Services Firm

Real Estate/Law Firm

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Questions from the Community

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Tableau vs. Business Objects - Which is a better solution for visualization and analysis?

Both tools have their positives and negatives. First, I should mention that I am relatively new to Tableau. I have been working on and off Tableau for about a year, but getting to work on it consta...

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Which would you choose - Tableau or SAP Analytics Cloud?

Tableau is easy to set up and maintain. In about a day it is possible for the entire platform to be deployed for use. This relatively short amount of time can make all the difference for companies ...

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What do you like most about Zoho Analytics?

Zoho Analytics's most valuable feature is the ability to provide excellent analytics through a single platform.

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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Zoho Analytics?

I rate the tool's pricing seven out of ten. The licensing costs are yearly.

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What needs improvement with Zoho Analytics?

The improvement needed is regarding the number of API calls. Currently, Zoho Analytics only allows us to update data hourly. It would be much better to have updates more frequently every half an hour.

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Overview

Tableau is a tool for data visualization and business intelligence that allows businesses to report insights through easy-to-use, customizable visualizations and dashboards. Tableau makes it exceedingly simple for its customers to organize, manage, visualize, and comprehend data. It enables users to dig deep into the data so that they can see patterns and gain meaningful insights.

Make data-driven decisions with confidence thanks to Tableau’s assistance in providing faster answers to queries, solving harder problems more easily, and offering new insights more frequently. Tableau integrates directly to hundreds of data sources, both in the cloud and on premises, making it simpler to begin research. People of various skill levels can quickly find actionable information using Tableau’s natural language queries, interactive dashboards, and drag-and-drop capabilities. By quickly creating strong calculations, adding trend lines to examine statistical summaries, or clustering data to identify relationships, users can ask more in-depth inquiries.

Tableau has many valuable key features:

Tableau dashboards provide a complete view of your data through visualizations, visual objects, text, and more.
Tableau provides convenient, real-time options to collaborate with other users and instantly share data in the form of visualizations, sheets, and dashboards.
Tableau ensures connectivity to both live data sources and data extraction from external data sources as in-memory data. This gives users the flexibility to use data from more than one source without any restrictions.
Tableau gives many data source option, ranging from spreadsheets, big data, on-premise files, relational databases, non-relational databases, data warehouses, and big data, to on-cloud data.
Tableau has a lot of pre-installed information on maps, such as cities, postal codes, and administrative boundaries.
Tableau has a foolproof security system based on authentication and permission systems for data connections and user access. Tableau also gives you the freedom to integrate with other security protocols.

Tableau stands out among its competitors for a number of reasons. Some of these include its fast data access, easy creation of visualizations, and its stability. PeerSpot users take note of the advantages of these features in their reviews:

Romil S., Deputy General Manager of IT at Nayara Energy, notes, "Its visualizations are good, and its features make the development process a little less time-consuming. It has an in-memory extract feature that allows us to extract data and keep it on the server, and then our users can use it quickly.

Ariful M., Consulting Practice Partner of Data, Analytics & AI at FH, writes, “Tableau is very flexible and easy to learn. It has drag-and-drop function analytics, and its design is very good.”

Zoho Reports is a powerful, easy-to-use and highly scalable cloud-based reporting and business intelligence platform for small to medium-sized businesses. Its flexible pay-as-you-go pricing model and scope for customization allow businesses to tailor it to their unique needs.

Sample Customers

Accenture, Adobe, Amazon.com, Bank of America, Charles Schwab Corp, Citigroup, Coca-Cola Company, Cornell University, Dell, Deloitte, Duke University, eBay, Exxon Mobil, Fannie Mae, Ferrari, French Red Cross, Goldman Sachs, Google, Government of Canada, HP, Intel, Johns Hopkins Hospital, Macy's, Merck, The New York Times, PayPal, Pfizer, US Army, US Air Force, Skype, and Walmart.

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