Zoho DataPrep Review

Accelerated & Accurate Business Analytics

Zoho DataPrep enables organizations to efficiently prepare and cleanse their data before it’s used in their business intelligence and analytics tools for analysis. This way, they can produce high-quality data and quickly make accurate business insights and decisions from it. Zoho DataPrep allows them to perform data profiling to discover and solve issues in their data. 

For instance, they can verify if there are missing or invalid values in columns and rows and fix them using intelligent suggestions. They can also view and remove duplicate records. Zoho DataPrep has widgets that allow them to access insights about their data, such as data distribution, value statistics, outliers, and text patterns. 

Effective Machine Learning Models

Through AI-powered data transformation and enrichment and workflow automation, users can easily prepare the data they need for building effective machine learning models. They can accurately split, extract, replace, or count selected portions of their data based on matching patterns and suggestions. They can also join and append data from various sources, reshape data through unpivot, pivot, and summary transformations, and execute unstructured data parsing. 

They’ll have the ability to analyze the sentiment of text data, detect its language, or extract keywords from the text data. Zoho DataPrep lets them create sets of rules for data transformations and save them as reusable templates. Thus, they can reuse rulesets to apply the same transformations and procedures to other datatasets. Furthermore, this permits them to monitor and manage all transformations and changes applied to their data at any time. 

Automated Data Warehousing 

Zoho DataPrep automates the process of collecting and preparing data from multiple sources and delivering it to data warehouses. You can connect to cloud services, business apps, data warehouses, databases, FTP servers, files, feeds, and REST APIs. You can import data from these sources and consolidate them all in Zoho DataPrep. The software allows you to build end-to-end data pipelines. This streamlines collecting, processing, blending, cleansing, and transmitting data from various sources.

You can also seamlessly and securely collaborate with other users during data preparation. Zoho DataPrep permits you to classify data using categories and tags, implement Zia’s data search features, and mark data once it’s available for sharing, consumption, or synching with the destination app.  Moreover, you can set up granular role-based access permissions and share data with colleagues or team members via secure workspaces.