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