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Azure Analysis Services

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What is Azure Analysis Services?

Azure 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…

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Recent Reviews

Best Analysis Service

9 out of 10
November 19, 2022
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We create powerful analytics solutions with Azure Analysis Services' integration with many other Azure services. The crucial data may be …
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Worth your investment

9 out of 10
November 05, 2022
Incentivized
We use this product in our organization for Data modeling that is further used for BI tools and excels to get analytics. This data is then …
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Good Analytics Tool

8 out of 10
November 04, 2022
Incentivized
Great product for Analytics and Visualizations of Data. Easy to scale and very powerful. Can add Role based authorizations to the …
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Popular Features

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  • Report sharing and collaboration (10)
    9.1
    91%
  • Publish to Web (10)
    9.1
    91%
  • Pixel Perfect reports (10)
    8.8
    88%
  • Report Formatting Templates (10)
    8.5
    85%
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What is Azure Analysis Services?

Azure 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…

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Product Demos

Azure Analysis Services Tutorial | Scale Power BI reports into hundreds of GBs

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Features

BI Standard Reporting

Standard reporting means pre-built or canned reports available to users without having to create them.

8.7
Avg 8.2

Ad-hoc Reporting

Ad-Hoc Reports are reports built by the user to meet highly specific requirements.

8.9
Avg 8.1

Report Output and Scheduling

Ability to schedule and manager report output.

9
Avg 8.4

Data Discovery and Visualization

Data Discovery and Visualization is the analysis of multiple data sources in a search for patterns and outliers and the ability to represent the data visually.

9
Avg 8.1

Access Control and Security

Access control means being able to determine who has access to which data.

9.2
Avg 8.6

Mobile Capabilities

Support for mobile devices like smartphones and tablets.

8.8
Avg 8.0

Application Program Interfaces (APIs) / Embedding

APIs are a set of routines, protocols, and tools for used for embedding one application in another

8.8
Avg 7.9
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Product Details

What is Azure Analysis Services?

Microsoft's Azure Analysis Services provides enterprise-grade analytics engine as a service. With it, users can combine data from multiple sources into a single, trusted BI semantic model, and enable self-service and data discovery for business users by simplifying the view of data and its underlying structure. An Azure Analysis Services instance can be deployed within seconds, and users can scale up, scale down, or pause the service and pay only for what is used.

Azure Analysis Services Technical Details

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Frequently Asked Questions

Azure 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.

Reviewers rate Mobile Application highest, with a score of 9.4.

The most common users of Azure Analysis Services are from Enterprises (1,001+ employees).
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Reviews and Ratings

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Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Microsoft Azure Analysis Services is among one of the most helpful and advanced business intelligence tool. This solution is offered as a platform as a service. It is packed with great features and functionalities which makes the business more productive and drives the revenue growth as many critical decision are based on the analysis of this service. The solution can be integrated with different types of Azure services which makes our work easier. We use this tool for different type of use cases like providing secure access, analyzing data, getting insights, providing role based access, depth analysis of data and for other data related use cases. The tool has proved it's worth and never disappointed us.
  • 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.
  • Microsoft Azure Analysis Services is very costly solution and in that price we can get some better business intelligence tool with lot more of capabilities
  • The dashboard or we can say user interface is complex and need time to understand and gain expertise in order for proper working.
  • It needs continuation monitoring which is sometime a big task.
  • Sometime, the tool shows unusual behavior and become unstable, so we need to clear temp files for proper functioning.
Microsoft Azure Analysis Services is best tool which is well suited for many type of scenarios. Like if the organization is dealing with a lot of critical data and need some better analysis and insights for that data then tool serves the best. It helps in depth analysis and getting the desired result which helps in making big decision for any organization. We can create role based access for sensitive data hence it is very helpful for security point of view. Helps in making the business more productive and taking decision based on facts. It is less appropriate for scenarios like where data amount is less and the solution is very costly and someone can get a cheaper solution. Also not suited for environment where user directory do not exist because without the help of user directory role could not be created hence proper utilization of this tool will not be possible.
November 19, 2022

Best Analysis Service

Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We create powerful analytics solutions with Azure Analysis Services' integration with many other Azure services. The crucial data may be accessed securely and based on roles thanks to its interaction with the Azure Active Directory.
  • Integrates with many Azure services
  • Provides secure, role-based access to your critical data.
  • Very least content available on Microsoft docs
  • Need for platform experience or expertise
Using well-known data visualization tools like Microsoft Power BI and Microsoft Excel, we can create comprehensive, enterprise-scale analytics solutions with Microsoft Analysis Services. Power BI users and reports can have consistent data thanks to Azure Analysis Services
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Azure, until now, is the best platform to analyze and transform data I've ever tried. We use Azure to generate insights by importing data from different sources.
  • You can import data from various sources (i.e. Oracle, Azure SQL...)
  • You can store data models
  • You can elaborate data and create insights
  • Perfect integration with Excel and Power BI
  • The user interface is a little bit complex if you don't have experience with a similar platform (and it's difficult to find tutorials about it)
Azure Analysis Services is not a tool for startups but for enterprises who has to manage complex data. If you have the expertise, it will never disappoint you. Could be costly but is a warranty in terms of performance and security
Abhishek Nandi | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Azure Analysis Services support various data sources like Azure SQL server, On-prem SQL, Oracle, etc. We can run models and various analytics services. The burden of maintaining servers and storage is not there as it is supported by Azure and is offered as a Platform as a service.
  • Use advanced mashup and modeling features to combine data from multiple data sources, define metrics, and secure your data in a single, trusted tabular semantic data model.
  • I have used AAS in establishing the Tabular Semantic model for one of my client's assignments.
  • 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.
Microsoft is the pioneer in the software industry, and its new tool Azure takes cloud computing to the next level with ease of use and accessibility. Don't need a VM to have access to SSAS. Azure Analytics Services has changed the name of the game for our analytics. It takes you above and beyond your typical Google Analytics Platform with in-depth analytics and needed metrics for performance goals.
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We built a connector for this tool for customers to use when they want to get more insight into their consumer behavior or collect statistics related to certain actions in the product itself. Our goal was to build an easy connector that takes information from our software and sends it over to Azure Analysis Services.
  • Visually pleasing
  • Easy to write queries
  • Easy to read results
  • Web version is a bit weaker
  • Publishing issues sometimes are a bit too complex
It is really good when analyzing services. It works generally as expected and brings the same quality that is expected from every other Azure product. If you are a company or an user that puts a lot of focus on security and focus a lot on the matter that your data does not get leaked, then Azure Analysis Services is the way to move forward.
November 05, 2022

Worth your investment

Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We use this product in our organization for Data modeling that is further used for BI tools and excels to get analytics. This data is then used for generating insights and taking actions accordingly.
  • Analytics
  • Generating insights
  • Provides platform as a service for data models
  • Interface is challenging for beginners
  • Regular monitoring is needed.
Using this product, we can have semantic data models from all the sources whether it is Oracle or MSSQL. We can then connect to these models to convert data to excel, reports and use this as an input to Power BI tools. Also ad hoc analysis can be performed.
November 05, 2022

Can't Go Wrong With It!

Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
I've used this at two companies recently. It seems like when a truly large amount of data is needing to be stored in a cloud with the best security possible, Azure Analysis Services has been where we turn to. We love the security it gives our organization and how simple it is to use as well. Convenience is what I enjoy most as a user.
  • Cloud storage
  • Seemless layering
  • Most affordable cloud service we've used so far
  • Very secure
  • A better interface design would be more visually appealing.
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.
Rubu Gogoi | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Gathering data from different sources to analyse reports and compare metrics of departments
  • Automating repeated processes
  • Integrating APIs with data models
  • Buildings interactive charts and visuals effectively and instantly
  • Deploying new insights model can be optimised
Creating visual models to present insightful data helps is analysing the reports more conveniently
Pradeep Panwar | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Overall my user experience with Azure Analysis Service has been phenomenal I like this tool mostly because it supports various data sources like Azure SQL server, On-prem SQL, Oracle and many more. This allows us to run models and various analytics services easily. Eliminates the burden of of maintaining servers and storage because it's supported by Azure. I like the fast memory data catching layer which is available in the Azure Analysis server helps to provide information with the speed of thought and enhances better decisions making. The support is second to none I have interacted with them severally and they are super fast responsive.
  • I like the Azure portal server which helps us to try Azure web design and experience it's compatibility with our data.
  • The seamless integration with Azure Active Directory provides secure, role-based access to our critical data.
  • Connects my team members to data models using Excel, Power BI and other leading tools which enables us to create reports and easily perform ad-hoc data analysis.
  • Provides world-class security to our data and storage to our clients data.
  • In my point of view the visualizations are limited compared to other BI tools.
  • The price is a little bit higher for SMBS.
The best thing about Azure Analysis Service is that it provides secure access anytime from anywhere and also it provides REST API which is very easy to use and user-friendly. I also like how they present their online video tutorials very detailed to help the beginners. There is no challenges while learning how to use this tool everything is at its place. So it's time saving.
November 04, 2022

Good Analytics Tool

Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Great product for Analytics and Visualizations of Data. Easy to scale and very powerful. Can add Role based authorizations to the dashboards as well to limit who views what. Easy to connect to various types of data sources. It also has the option to export dashboards in PDF, etc. Should definitely try it out.
  • Visualizations
  • Analysis
  • Dashboarding
  • RBAC
  • Documentation
  • Drill Down & Up Capabilities
  • Ability to connect to external sources of data
Azure Analysis Services is well suited when you have uniform data which you want to easily visualize and have a high level overview. it is very easy to use for business users as well who don't have to know anything technical to use this product. You can also connect it to various types of Data Sources.
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Used by the whole organization to maintain the data in a cloud environment for scalability and moving towards Big Data implementation
  • Ease of use
  • Easy to integrate with other Microsoft related software
  • Intuitive app
  • More tooltip instructions
Suited for companies that [have] been using Microsoft environment for reporting, maintaining data and would like to migrate to a Cloud environment. Also good for companies that [have] low to mid maturity on the cloud environment usage to get buy-in from the working members. Recommended for companies that would like an alternative to other vendors.
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