So much of your business data from many of your applications lie in a database like Oracle, SQL Server, MySQL or MS Access,
behind a firewall. Getting meaningful reports out of such databases and
taking corrective actions based on those reports is what business
intelligence is all about. The databases themselves are typically
costly and creating reports out of them isn’t that easy. Buying
additional reporting tools, which you need to install and maintain, adds up to your costs. But by making your data available in Zoho Reports, you get
these major benefits :

1. Create meaningful reports easily using just drag-and-drop
2. The reports you create are accessible from anywhere
3. Enable collaborative analysis and reporting
4. Share the reports over the web to whoever you want
5. Very affordable, pay-as-you-go monthly pricing plans (Zoho Reports is actually free, as of now)

Zoho
Reports makes it easy to push data from behind-the-firewall databases
(and CSV files too) by providing you with an Upload Tool (a database
connector).

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