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Features and Pricing Comparison

Comparison: Zoho Analytics vs Tableau

  • Features
  • Data Integration Wide and seamless integration: Supports 500+ data connectors, including popular cloud services, databases, and on-premise data sources, ensuring seamless integration. Complex integration: Supports 120+ data connectors. Often requires additional tools or third-party solutions to bridge gaps.
  • Native Data Preparation Zoho DataPrep Tableau Prep
  • Automatic data blending  
  • Data Visualization Rich visualization library: Wide range of visualization types to create customized charts and graphs to meet specific business needs. Strong but rigid: Has strong visualization capabilities, but creating custom visuals can be more complex.
  • Advanced Analytics Integrated AI and predictive analytics: Zoho Analytics is powered with built-in AI-powered tools. Users can uncover deeper insights using predictive analytics and machine learning without needing separate add-ons. Requires add-ons: Requires additional tools or separate purchases, increasing both complexity and costs.
  • Automation and Reporting Advanced automation: Reduced manual effort ensures timely insights through automated data workflows, report generation, and delivery with ease. Manual setup: It often requires manual setup and ongoing management, which can be time-consuming and prone to errors.
  • Deployment Flexibility Flexible deployment options: Both cloud-based and on-premise solutions are available. Providing businesses the option to choose whichever best suits their operations. Primarily cloud-based: Tableau mainly focuses on the cloud with limited on-premise deployment options. This may not suit all business operations.
  • Scalability Seamless scaling: Easily scales with your business. Supports the growth of data volumes and user bases without increase in cost. Expensive scaling: Scales effectively, but the costs of expanding users can be excessively high for many organizations.
  • Customization Extensive and flexible: The robust customization options allow users to tailor the platform to their business needs fully. More restrictive: Users are often restricted from fully adapting the platform to their requirements since the customization options are more limited.
  • Collaboration Advanced collaboration features: Real-time collaboration with shared workspaces, role-based access, and version control, which enables easy teamwork across the organization. Basic collaboration: While it offers collaboration tools, it is less advanced and lacks real-time functionality, which makes the team less efficient.
  • Security and Privacy ISO/IEC 27001, 27017, 27018, SOC 2 Type 2, GDPR, HIPAA ISO 27001, SOC Type II, GDPR
  • Mobile Accessibility Full-featured mobile app: Zoho Analytics provides two fully functional native mobile BI apps, allowing users to access and interact with reports and dashboards on-the-go. Limited mobile experience: The Tableau mobile app offers basic functionalities. It lacks the depth and interactivity of the desktop version, which limits on-the-go productivity.
  • Global Presence and Compliance Global reach with local compliance: Zoho Analytics has data centers in multiple regions. Ensures fast access and compliance with local regulations. Global presence with cost barriers: Tableau also has a global footprint but can face challenges due to its higher pricing and limited regional adaptability.
  • Learning Curve Quick and easy: With user-friendly tools and an intuitive interface, the learning curve is reduced, allowing users to start generating reports quickly. Steep learning curve: Requires extensive training for advanced features, which delays team productivity.
  • Ease of Use Designed for all users: Simple, intuitive interface with drag-and-drop functionalities. Users of all technical levels can access this, from beginners to advanced analysts. Complex for new users: Makes it less accessible for non-technical users as it requires a higher level of technical knowledge.
  • Pricing Affordable: A highly flexible and affordable pricing plan starting at $30 for 2 users/month. Accessible to businesses of all sizes. Expensive: An expensive pricing plan starting at $75 per user per month with additional charges for advanced features. Make this less viable for small businesses.

Pricing Comparison: Zoho Analytics vs Tableau

$13,824
$116,640
Zoho Analytics Tableau
*Assuming the below split of 300 user licenses:
Tableau
Creators: 60 , costing $54,000
Explorers: 60 , costing $30,240
Viewers: 180 , costing $32,400
Total cost per year: $116,640
Zoho Analytics
Users: 60 , costing $4,608
Viewers: 240 , costing $9,216
Total cost per year: $13,824
With Zoho Analytics, you save $102,816 or up to 88.15% in savings.

Does Tableau have all you need?

Despite being a powerful data visualization tool, Tableau still has several challenges that can hinder business growth, particularly for small and medium-sized enterprises.

  • High subscription plans and scaling expenses
  • Steep learning curve for advanced features
  • Limited customization
  • Complex integration

These challenges can hinder your business's ability to leverage data for growth.

Here's why Zoho Analytics springs up as the best alternative to Tableau

Flexible deployment

Forget complicated deployment models and expensive licensing. With a Tableau alternative like Zoho Analytics, you can choose between an easy-to-use, completely cloud-based, or on-premise deployment model without having to purchase additional components. Both the deployment models are independent, which means you can buy either the cloud or the on-premise version, pay for just the number of users you need, and analyze your data with no additional costs involved.

Best alternative to Tableau with a flexible deployment - Zoho Analytics

Unified Analytics

Don't let data silos prevent you from seeing the big picture. Get data from anywhere with our pre-built integrations and unify them under one roof to get a holistic 360° visibility into your business in seconds. Arrive at informed, data-driven decisions with end-to-end insights. Learn More.

Augmented Analytics

Save time gathering insights, and focus on turning those insights into action with Ask Zia and Zia insights. With Ask Zia, you can simply start a conversation and ask Zia all your questions to get instant insights in the form of KPI's and reports in seconds. Take it up a notch with Zia insights to get instant narratives and explanations on important trends in your data. Watch Zia in action.

Embedded Analytics

ISVs, service providers, business consultants, and solution developers can now quickly implement and offer a fully built BI solution to customers using our powerful Embedded BI and White Labeling options. Seamlessly embed Zoho Analytics(an alternative to Tableau analytics) into your application/service or host your own analytics portal/website, under your own brand, with full re-branding. Learn more.

Collaborative Analytics

Collaborate effortlessly without having to purchase multiple components or users licenses to access business-critical insights. With Zoho Analytics' fine-grained access controls, you can share, comment, and co-author reports and dashboards with anyone in seconds. Publish your reports & dashboards and make them accessible to users with/without logins. Build your own portals or embed views across websites, intranets, blogs, and applications for wider consumption. Learn more about sharing and collaboration.

A free alternative to Tableau with robust sharing and collaboration

Cost-effective BI tool

Designed as an affordable BI tool with powerful analytics capabilities. Zoho Analytics offers a flexible pricing plan to cater to businesses of all sizes. The platform allows you to maximize your return on investment by providing advanced data analysis, reporting, and visualization at a fraction of the cost of other BI tools.

Cost-effective BI tool

Eliminates the steep learning curve

With the intuitive interface of Zoho Analytics, both technical and non-technical users can quickly get up to speed and start generating reports. The drag-and-drop interface, pre-built templates, and user-friendly dashboards ensure users can create complex reports and dashboards without needing extensive training.

Eliminates the steep learning curve

Customization

Zoho Analytics recognizes your business needs and offers a wide array of customization options. Create reports and dashboards tailored to your specific business needs. From custom widgets, visualizations, and filters to personalized layouts and colour schemes, Zoho Analytics allows you to design dashboards that best reflect your organization's goals.

Customization

Easy integrations

With a seamless integration, you can consolidate and analyze data from multiple data sources effortlessly. Including popular CRM platforms like Zoho CRM and Salesforce, marketing tools, and third-party databases such as MySQL, PostgreSQL, and more. With built-in connectors and APIs, the integration process is smooth and straightforward.

Easy Integrtions
  • "We evaluated many tools. Most others did not qualify our criteria or they did not provide the kind of features we were looking for (e.g. embedding, scheduled emails, re-branding). Zoho Analytics has a comprehensive set of features and the best part is that these features don't cost us zillions of dollars. We chose Zoho Analytics over Tableau because it comes with a better-tiered pricing model."

    alternative to tableau analyticsKapil PendseCTO & Product Manager, KAI Square.

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Frequently Asked Questions(FAQ) about Tableau alternative

Briefly describe Tableau and Zoho Analytics:

    The Tableau data and analytics platform is a complete end-to-end BI platform, empowering business users to independently manage, analyze, and visualize complex data.

    Zoho Analytics is a full-fledged, self-service BI and Analytics software.It offers comprehensive data integration, data preparation, deep analytics & visualisation and secure collaboration capabilities. Designed to be highly user friendly, the goal of Zoho Analytics is to enable "Analytics for All" for any business.

What do I look for while choosing a Tableau Alternative?

    The choice of a suitable Tableau alternative depends on your organization's specific requirements and preferences. Here are some key factors to consider for evaluation of Tableau alternatives:

    • Analytics & visualization capabilities
    • Customization options
    • Data sources connectivity
    • Data integration/unification
    • Ease-of-use
    • Total Cost of Ownership(TCO)

Why Zoho Analytics is the best Alternative to Tableau?

    Zoho Analytics is a robust platform with a broad range of capabilities. Here are some reasons why Zoho Analytics might be considered a strong Tableau alternative for visualizing and analyzing data:

    • Cost-effective solution offering
    • Integrations with widely-used business applications
    • User-friendly interface
    • Collaboration & sharing
    • AI-powered capabilities
    • Flexible deployments
    • Scalability

Best free Tableau alternative by Zoho Analytics

    Zoho Analytics' free version offers powerful analytics capabilities, making it a viable free tableau alternative. Some key features include:

    • Data integration & preparation
    • Visual analysis
    • Collaboration
    • AI-powered analytics
    • APIs for extensibility

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