Files, feeds & cloud drives

You can upload data from spreadsheets & flat files like Microsoft Excel, CSV, HTML, JSON, XML, text files and more. You can also feed data from online storage services like Zoho Docs, Google Drive, Box, Dropbox & Microsoft OneDrive. Data can also be pulled from Web URL feeds.

Databases

You can connect to both relational databases like Oracle, SQL Server, MySQL, PostgreSQL, MS Access, Teradata, etc. and NoSQL databases like MongoDB, Cassandra, Hadoop/Hive etc. Connectivity to Microsoft SQL Azure, Amazon RDS and Amazon Redshift cloud databases are also supported.

Popular business applications

Connect with popular business applications like Zoho CRM, Zoho Books, Zoho Projects, Zoho Creator, Zoho Recruit, Salesforce CRM, Google Analytics, Google AdWords, QuickBooks, Xero and Zendesk through ready made connectors.

Inbuilt connectors apart, if you have data in any online/offline applications, you can use our powerful data import & integration APIs to build a connector quickly.

Data blending

Zoho Reports' architecture allows you to blend & merge data from across different sources to create meaningful business reports. For example, combine your marketing spend data in Excel files or AdWords, with your sales data from CRM, to create a spend vs. sales report.

Fine-grained access control

Have full control over what your colleagues or clients can see & do with the reports you share with them. Fine-grained access control with specific options like read-only, read-write, report authoring, drill-down, export and others.

Publishing and embedding of reports

Publish your reports and make them accessible to users with/without logins. Embed your reports and dashboards across websites, intranets, blogs & applications for wider consumption.

Printing and emailing

Schedule your reports and dashboards to be emailed automatically. Export or print reports for offline access.

APIs

Zoho Reports offers a set of powerful HTTP based Web APIs. Provides methods for data integration (add, modify, delete and fetch data), meta data handling (fetch details about your data and reports), sharing and dynamic reports embedding.

Zoho CloudSQL technology, allows developers to interact with business data stored in Zoho Reports using the familiar SQL language.

Columnar database backend

Zoho Reports is not only meant for SMBs but also for enterprises too. It can scale and handle 100s of millions of rows of data for analysis & reporting. Large volume enterprises have the option to use our scalable columnar database technology as the backend.