This document provides an overview of Zoho Reports, an online reporting and business intelligence tool. It discusses how Zoho Reports allows users to easily analyze business data through drag-and-drop report creation and publishing reports online without installation. The document also demonstrates Zoho Reports by showcasing social network data from LinkedIn, Twitter, and Facebook and discusses some prospective business applications and limitations of the free version of the tool.

1. A beginner’s guide to using Zoho Reports
Amol Khadikar 10BM60008
Shashidhar Shenoy N 10BM60083

2. What they said…
“The greatest value of a picture is when it
forces us to notice what we never expected to
see”
- John W. Tukey. Father of exploratory data
analysis
“As intelligence goes up,
"After all is said and done, more needs to happiness goes down. See, I
have been done than said." made a graph. I make lots of
- Neil Mason graphs.”
"If your only tool is a hammer, every problem looks
like a nail."
- Abraham Maslow
Our tool for the day…. ‘Zoho Reports’!!

3. Zoho Reports
What is this tool all about? How is it different from Excel?
 Online Reporting and  Collaboration – designed
Business Intelligence for multiple users
service
 Data integrity
 Easily analyze business
data  Easy ‘Drag and drop’
 Create insightful reports
report creation
& dashboards  Publish data and reports
 No installation needed – in internet/blogs
all things on the cloud

4. Getting started with Zoho Reports
Some basic things for which the tool is used Other premium features
 Web login to the tool  Sharing databases
 Creating databases  Secure database access using
 Importing data from various SSL (https)
sources  Backup of data in Zoho
 Various types of chart creation Reports
 Pivot table creation and  Scheduled import of data
dashboards from behind a firewall
 Sharing and publishing results  Scheduled emails
 Logo rebranding
https://reports.wiki.zoho.com/Upload-Tool.html

5. Our data – showcasing social network
Live Data used
 LinkedIn Contacts visualization
Example 1 Source: LinkedIn contact manager +
data export from the site
 Twitter followers’ data
Example 2 Source: www.twittersave.tk by Amod
Kumar Gupta
 Facebook page insights
Example 3 Source: data export into csv from
admin panel of the page
Demo

6. Links to the outputs
Example 1 http://bit.ly/linkedIn_loc
Example 2 http://bit.ly/twitter_fol
Example 3 http://bit.ly/facebook_ins

7. Prospective business applications
 For Self-Branding
 For Human Resource Managers/Agents
 For Marketing Managers
Many businesses are already using Zoho
Reports for their reporting needs!

8. What else we tried
Other things tried Issues faced
 Twitter streaming using  Twitterstream kept asking for
WAMP stack and 140 dev – to repeated passwords while
visualize trending tweets by running ‘get_tweets.php’
location/users causing the code to timeout
 Real time weather /
 Websites internal databases
population data from websites
– to see dynamic updating of locked for free usage. Zoho
tables Reports failed to import the
 Analyse rss feeds using Zoho free ones.
Reports - to count real time  Code unclear or too complex
word frequency to follow for the rss feeds
http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/xml/library/x-xmlzoho/index.html?ca=dgr-twtrCloud-App-Statsdth-x&S_TACT=105AGY83&S_CMP=TWDW
http://140dev.com/free-twitter-api-source-code-library/twitter-database-server/

9. Limitations of the tool
 The automatic dashboard creator – not intuitive. Some
times it creates junk reports.
 Fails to import some raw csv/tables from the web pages
 Cannot share databases in free account- should
upgrade to premium account
 Very few visualization methods available: no time-
flow/maps, etc
 Many features are limited to few trials in the free
account.

10. References and online help
 https://reports.wiki.zoho.com/
 http://zohoreportoutput.blogspot.in/
 http://oorjavgsom.blogspot.in/
 http://zohoreportsvgsom.blogspot.in/
 www.twittersave.tk

11. Thank you