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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    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

    Altair SmartSight

    Score8.4 out of 10
    N/ACarriots Analytics, and the later Altair SmartSight, was a cloud data analytics platform for embedded, Big Data, and IoT applications. It provided secure and rapid free-form data visualization and exploration, scalable throughout the enterprise in real time. The product is no longer available.N/A
    Pricing
    Azure Analysis ServicesAltair SmartSight
    Editions & Modules
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    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    Azure Analysis ServicesAltair SmartSight
    Free Trial
    NoNo
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
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    Community Pulse
    Azure Analysis ServicesAltair SmartSight
    Considered Both Products
    Microsoft
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    Discontinued Products
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    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
    100%
    Would buy again
    9 Answers
    80%
    Would buy again
    4 Answers
    Delivers good value for the price
    100%
    Delivers good value for the price
    9 Answers
    100%
    Delivers good value for the price
    5 Answers
    Happy with the feature set
    100%
    Happy with the feature set
    9 Answers
    100%
    Happy with the feature set
    5 Answers
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    100%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    7 Answers
    No answers on this topic
    Implementation went as expected
    100%
    Implementation went as expected
    9 Answers
    No answers on this topic
    Features
    Azure Analysis ServicesAltair SmartSight
    BI Standard Reporting
    Comparison of BI Standard Reporting features of Azure Analysis Services and Carriots Analytics / Altair SmartSight (discontinued)
    Feature
    Azure Analysis Services
    8.6
    8 Ratings
    5% above category average
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    Pixel Perfect reports8.88 Ratings00 Ratings
    Customizable dashboards8.77 Ratings00 Ratings
    Report Formatting Templates8.58 Ratings00 Ratings
    Ad-hoc Reporting
    Comparison of Ad-hoc Reporting features of Azure Analysis Services and Carriots Analytics / Altair SmartSight (discontinued)
    Feature
    Azure Analysis Services
    8.8
    8 Ratings
    9% above category average
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    Drill-down analysis8.96 Ratings00 Ratings
    Formatting capabilities8.77 Ratings00 Ratings
    Integration with R or other statistical packages8.77 Ratings00 Ratings
    Report sharing and collaboration9.08 Ratings00 Ratings
    Report Output and Scheduling
    Comparison of Report Output and Scheduling features of Azure Analysis Services and Carriots Analytics / Altair SmartSight (discontinued)
    Feature
    Azure Analysis Services
    9.0
    8 Ratings
    9% above category average
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    Publish to Web9.08 Ratings00 Ratings
    Publish to PDF8.97 Ratings00 Ratings
    Report Versioning9.37 Ratings00 Ratings
    Report Delivery Scheduling9.08 Ratings00 Ratings
    Delivery to Remote Servers8.57 Ratings00 Ratings
    Data Discovery and Visualization
    Comparison of Data Discovery and Visualization features of Azure Analysis Services and Carriots Analytics / Altair SmartSight (discontinued)
    Feature
    Azure Analysis Services
    9.0
    7 Ratings
    11% above category average
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    Pre-built visualization formats (heatmaps, scatter plots etc.)9.46 Ratings00 Ratings
    Location Analytics / Geographic Visualization9.07 Ratings00 Ratings
    Predictive Analytics8.66 Ratings00 Ratings
    Access Control and Security
    Comparison of Access Control and Security features of Azure Analysis Services and Carriots Analytics / Altair SmartSight (discontinued)
    Feature
    Azure Analysis Services
    9.3
    8 Ratings
    9% above category average
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    Multi-User Support (named login)9.27 Ratings00 Ratings
    Role-Based Security Model9.38 Ratings00 Ratings
    Multiple Access Permission Levels (Create, Read, Delete)9.38 Ratings00 Ratings
    Single Sign-On (SSO)9.47 Ratings00 Ratings
    Mobile Capabilities
    Comparison of Mobile Capabilities features of Azure Analysis Services and Carriots Analytics / Altair SmartSight (discontinued)
    Feature
    Azure Analysis Services
    8.6
    7 Ratings
    11% above category average
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    Responsive Design for Web Access8.47 Ratings00 Ratings
    Mobile Application9.33 Ratings00 Ratings
    Dashboard / Report / Visualization Interactivity on Mobile8.35 Ratings00 Ratings
    Application Program Interfaces (APIs) / Embedding
    Comparison of Application Program Interfaces (APIs) / Embedding features of Azure Analysis Services and Carriots Analytics / Altair SmartSight (discontinued)
    Feature
    Azure Analysis Services
    8.8
    7 Ratings
    13% above category average
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    REST API8.96 Ratings00 Ratings
    Javascript API8.76 Ratings00 Ratings
    iFrames8.85 Ratings00 Ratings
    Java API8.77 Ratings00 Ratings
    Themeable User Interface (UI)8.34 Ratings00 Ratings
    Customizable Platform (Open Source)9.33 Ratings00 Ratings
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    Medium-sized Companies
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    Score8.1 out of 10
    Enterprises
    Sisense
    Score6.7 out of 10
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    User Ratings
    Azure Analysis ServicesAltair SmartSight
    Likelihood to Recommend
    9.0
    (9 ratings)
    8.4
    (5 ratings)
    Usability
    -
    (0 ratings)
    8.3
    (5 ratings)
    Support Rating
    -
    (0 ratings)
    8.7
    (5 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    Azure Analysis ServicesAltair SmartSight
    Likelihood to Recommend
    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.
    Incentivized
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    As per my knowledge and Altair Product experience, It is really a good product that comes with multiple features like IoT, BigData, dashboards, and other things. I personally really enjoyed using the services provided by Altair. It is well suited for the organizations who don't spend much time setting up their own platform, maintenance, and much more because Altair not only provides the platform but they will care about your products with good customer support and maintenance. I only found a bit low in the case of machine learning and AI products because I have checked different products that provide these services with good accuracy.
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    Pros
    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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    Discontinued Products
    • The global navigation bar with links to the library for easy access and management within the platform.
    • Simplified task viewer where we can find the profile, performance, help, resources and a link also to manage your account.
    • System administrators can define profiles for task execution.
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    Cons
    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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    Discontinued Products
    • Integration with other systems could be better.
    • Ability to handle large amount of data.
    • Expertise services might be better.
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    Usability
    Microsoft
    No answers on this topic
    Discontinued Products
    Very user-friendly UI and visual representation is also good for the price offered. Good tool but lacks some advanced and AI-based insights. It has an edge over other tools for the price of this tool. It has some great potential and i would consider this in my top 5 when considering tools of this domain
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    Support Rating
    Microsoft
    No answers on this topic
    Discontinued Products
    I only had one problem with the software, and the support system response was very quick.
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    Alternatives Considered
    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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    Discontinued Products
    Altair smart sight stacks up against all the products mentioned above because it comes with a wide variety of applications and services like Big Data, IoT services, Embedded systems, cloud-based service, data visualization, Machine learning, dashboarding, and much more. I have used the other products like Logi Composer, Tableau CRM, and PowerBI but they only handle the specific use cases. So Because of that Altair Smartsight really provide a good and wide range of solution.
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    Return on Investment
    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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    Discontinued Products
    • The workflow interface consists of the workflow canvas where we do our actual pipeline and workflow execution log, display information and each process.
    • You can use it to create a workflow and the available execution profiles in which to run them.
    • We currently have one session running for each workflow.
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