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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    9 Spokes

    Score10 out of 10
    N/A9 Spokes is a smart dashboard that is designed to help companies see their business more clearly. Key metrics across essential areas of the user’s business are displayed in one place, revealing exactly how it's performing. The vendor’s value proposition is that 9 Spokes makes it easier for companies to make the right calls to manage or grow their business. According to the vendor, key benefits for SMEs include: One smart dashboard for your cloud business apps…N/A

    Azure Analysis Services

    Score8.6 out of 10
    N/AAzure Analysis Services delivers enterprise-grade BI semantic modeling capabilities with the scale, flexibility, and management benefits of the cloud. Azure Analysis Services helps transform complex data into actionable insights. Azure Analysis Services is built on the analytics engine in Microsoft SQL Server Analysis Services.N/A
    Pricing
    9 SpokesAzure Analysis Services
    Editions & Modules
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    Pricing Offerings
    9 SpokesAzure Analysis Services
    Free Trial
    YesNo
    Free/Freemium Version
    YesNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
    Additional Details9 Spokes is free to use - that’s joining, using the smart dashboard and connecting your apps to it. You'll only pay for any new apps you decide to purchase, but you can trial most of the app recommendations for free! If you want to purchase an app, we'll direct you to the app's website so you can sign up with them. If you sign up to a plan, you'll pay the apps directly and then you can connect the app to your dashboard.—
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    Community Pulse
    9 SpokesAzure Analysis Services
    Considered Both Products
    9 Spokes International Limited
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    Microsoft
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    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
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    100%
    Would buy again
    9 Answers
    Delivers good value for the price
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    100%
    Delivers good value for the price
    9 Answers
    Happy with the feature set
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    100%
    Happy with the feature set
    9 Answers
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
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    100%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    7 Answers
    Implementation went as expected
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    Implementation went as expected
    9 Answers
    Features
    9 SpokesAzure Analysis Services
    BI Standard Reporting
    Comparison of BI Standard Reporting features of 9 Spokes and Azure Analysis Services
    Feature
    9 Spokes
    9.0
    1 Ratings
    10% above category average
    Azure Analysis Services
    8.6
    8 Ratings
    5% above category average
    Customizable dashboards9.01 Ratings8.77 Ratings
    Pixel Perfect reports00 Ratings8.88 Ratings
    Report Formatting Templates00 Ratings8.58 Ratings
    Ad-hoc Reporting
    Comparison of Ad-hoc Reporting features of 9 Spokes and Azure Analysis Services
    Feature
    9 Spokes
    7.0
    1 Ratings
    14% below category average
    Azure Analysis Services
    8.8
    8 Ratings
    9% above category average
    Drill-down analysis7.01 Ratings8.96 Ratings
    Formatting capabilities00 Ratings8.77 Ratings
    Integration with R or other statistical packages00 Ratings8.77 Ratings
    Report sharing and collaboration00 Ratings9.08 Ratings
    Data Discovery and Visualization
    Comparison of Data Discovery and Visualization features of 9 Spokes and Azure Analysis Services
    Feature
    9 Spokes
    10.0
    1 Ratings
    22% above category average
    Azure Analysis Services
    9.0
    7 Ratings
    11% above category average
    Pre-built visualization formats (heatmaps, scatter plots etc.)10.01 Ratings9.46 Ratings
    Location Analytics / Geographic Visualization00 Ratings9.07 Ratings
    Predictive Analytics00 Ratings8.66 Ratings
    Access Control and Security
    Comparison of Access Control and Security features of 9 Spokes and Azure Analysis Services
    Feature
    9 Spokes
    9.0
    1 Ratings
    6% above category average
    Azure Analysis Services
    9.3
    8 Ratings
    9% above category average
    Multi-User Support (named login)9.01 Ratings9.27 Ratings
    Role-Based Security Model00 Ratings9.38 Ratings
    Multiple Access Permission Levels (Create, Read, Delete)00 Ratings9.38 Ratings
    Single Sign-On (SSO)00 Ratings9.47 Ratings
    Mobile Capabilities
    Comparison of Mobile Capabilities features of 9 Spokes and Azure Analysis Services
    Feature
    9 Spokes
    8.0
    1 Ratings
    3% above category average
    Azure Analysis Services
    8.6
    7 Ratings
    10% above category average
    Responsive Design for Web Access6.01 Ratings8.47 Ratings
    Dashboard / Report / Visualization Interactivity on Mobile10.01 Ratings8.35 Ratings
    Mobile Application00 Ratings9.33 Ratings
    Report Output and Scheduling
    Comparison of Report Output and Scheduling features of 9 Spokes and Azure Analysis Services
    Feature
    9 Spokes
    -
    Ratings
    Azure Analysis Services
    9.0
    8 Ratings
    9% above category average
    Publish to Web00 Ratings9.08 Ratings
    Publish to PDF00 Ratings8.97 Ratings
    Report Versioning00 Ratings9.37 Ratings
    Report Delivery Scheduling00 Ratings9.08 Ratings
    Delivery to Remote Servers00 Ratings8.57 Ratings
    Application Program Interfaces (APIs) / Embedding
    Comparison of Application Program Interfaces (APIs) / Embedding features of 9 Spokes and Azure Analysis Services
    Feature
    9 Spokes
    -
    Ratings
    Azure Analysis Services
    8.8
    7 Ratings
    13% above category average
    REST API00 Ratings8.96 Ratings
    Javascript API00 Ratings8.76 Ratings
    iFrames00 Ratings8.85 Ratings
    Java API00 Ratings8.77 Ratings
    Themeable User Interface (UI)00 Ratings8.34 Ratings
    Customizable Platform (Open Source)00 Ratings9.33 Ratings
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    9 SpokesAzure Analysis Services
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    Medium-sized Companies
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    Score8.1 out of 10
    Enterprises
    Sisense
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    User Ratings
    9 SpokesAzure Analysis Services
    Likelihood to Recommend
    7.0
    (1 ratings)
    9.0
    (9 ratings)
    Support Rating
    5.0
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Data Sharing and Collaboration
    7.0
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Data Sources
    5.0
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    9 SpokesAzure Analysis Services
    Likelihood to Recommend
    9 Spokes International Limited
    Good for letting your investors, employees and others know at a glance how your company is doing. The interface is clean and organized well. I just wish more of the app's functionality was available for testing and implementation. "Coming soon" is not really encouraging when we already have been waiting for a year or more.
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    Microsoft
    We would have many technical issues and glitches with previous similar providers but found that Azure Analysis Services can simply handle our workload and memory better. I remember we lost an account due to cloud issues not fully saving or corrupting some files. Granted, this is rare with any cloud but haven't had that issue with the same load of memory with Azure Analysis Services.
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    Pros
    9 Spokes International Limited
    • Grouping several apps in one place for easy viewing.
    • Clean dashboard interface that looks uncluttered when viewing several apps at once.
    • Setting up the apps is a breeze when the platform supports them.
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    Microsoft
    • Providing role based access or we can say privilege based on the role to the user if it is integrated with Azure active directory and hence securing the access to sensitive data.
    • We use to run different type of analytics services to get the better result which is hectic if done manually or with human efforts.
    • We also use to collect bulk of data with the help of this tool and run customized test cases for better efficiency of result and better decision making. The result are very crucial and helps in taking big decision.
    • It supports different or we can say heterogeneous database vendors like the Oracle, SQL, and hence make the task easy.
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    Cons
    9 Spokes International Limited
    • Integration with apps that are listed. Some of them are not supported yet and it seems the wait is taking longer than I'd like.
    • iPhone support. It would be nice to have this in the app store. Not available as of 04/25/2018.
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    Microsoft
    • There is very least content available on Microsoft docs and the Internet to get through with AAS.
    • i faced lots of connection issues while implementation.
    • The need for serious platform experience or expertise.
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    Support Rating
    9 Spokes International Limited
    Support was helpful in the beginning but no longer needed because I didn't use the software as much. The experience that I did have with support was very friendly but not enough to give a good review. If the support team was called for initial setup, video chat or messenger app was used.
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    Microsoft
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    Alternatives Considered
    9 Spokes International Limited
    I actually chose QuickBooks (currently using) and Method (used for a month) before deciding that 9 Spokes is just good for looking at a few apps in one place. I'll keep checking back with them to see if they have improved. I wouldn't be surprised if 9 Spokes improves their product within the next 6-12 months.
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    Microsoft
    The platform has vast number of features and modules. The UI is sleek and once you get to use to it, you will be able to do a lot of stuff. Also support for data sources is more in Azure Analysis Services.
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    Return on Investment
    9 Spokes International Limited
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    Microsoft
    • The tool has helped us a lot for taking critical decision which has resulted in the increase of profit of organization by 18 percent.
    • Return on investment is 70 percent as we are unable to utilize the tool with full functionalities, so we are still testing some of the use cases.
    • Human effort has been reduced and task has become automated hence helped in cost management
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