Overview
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…
Best Analysis Service
The Perfect Tool (if you have expertise)
"Microsoft's best cloud tool, Best for analytics"
Stunning product with great visuals
Worth your investment
Can't Go Wrong With It!
Convenient and easy to use PAAS with multiple modeling features
Top-notch Enterprise-grade Analytics. Transform complex data into one version of truth.
Good Analytics Tool
Cloud Platform to Ease Clouded Thinking
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Popular Features
- Report sharing and collaboration (10)9.191%
- Publish to Web (10)9.191%
- Pixel Perfect reports (10)8.888%
- Report Formatting Templates (10)8.585%
Pricing
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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Features
BI Standard Reporting
Standard reporting means pre-built or canned reports available to users without having to create them.
- 8.8Pixel Perfect reports(10) Ratings
Pixel Perfect reports are highly-formatted reports with graphics and ability to preview the report before printing.
- 8.8Customizable dashboards(9) Ratings
Customizable dashboards are dashboards providing the builder some degree of control over the look and feel and display options.
- 8.5Report Formatting Templates(10) Ratings
Ad-hoc Reporting
Ad-Hoc Reports are reports built by the user to meet highly specific requirements.
- 9Drill-down analysis(8) Ratings
Drill down analysis is the ability to get to a further level of detail by going deeper into the hierarchy.
- 8.9Formatting capabilities(9) Ratings
Ability to format output e.g. conditional formatting, lines, headers, footers.
- 8.8Integration with R or other statistical packages(9) Ratings
Integration with the open-source R predictive modeling environment.
- 9.1Report sharing and collaboration(10) Ratings
Report sharing and collaboration is the ability to easily share reports with others.
Report Output and Scheduling
Ability to schedule and manager report output.
- 9.1Publish to Web(10) Ratings
- 8.9Publish to PDF(9) Ratings
- 9.3Report Versioning(9) Ratings
Report versioning is the assignment of version numbers to each version of a report to help in tracking.
- 8.9Report Delivery Scheduling(10) Ratings
Report Delivery Schedule is the ability to have reports delivered to a destination at a specific data and time.
- 8.8Delivery to Remote Servers(9) Ratings
Ability to deliver reports to remote servers
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.
- 9.3Pre-built visualization formats (heatmaps, scatter plots etc.)(8) Ratings
Pre-built visualization formats are canned visualization types that can be selected to visualize different kinds of data.
- 9.1Location Analytics / Geographic Visualization(9) Ratings
Location analytics is the visualization of geographical or spatial data.
- 8.6Predictive Analytics(8) Ratings
Predictive Analytics is the ability to build forecasting models based on existing data sets.
Access Control and Security
Access control means being able to determine who has access to which data.
- 9.2Multi-User Support (named login)(9) Ratings
Named model access means that users have access based on name and password.
- 9.3Role-Based Security Model(10) Ratings
Role-based access means that access to data is determined by job or position in the corporation.
- 9.1Multiple Access Permission Levels (Create, Read, Delete)(10) Ratings
Multiple access permission levels means that different levels of users have different rights.
- 9.3Single Sign-On (SSO)(9) Ratings
Allows users to use one set of login credentials to access multiple applications
Mobile Capabilities
Support for mobile devices like smartphones and tablets.
- 8.5Responsive Design for Web Access(8) Ratings
Web design aimed at producing easy-to-read sites across a range of different devices.
- 9.4Mobile Application(5) Ratings
A dedicated app for iOS and/or Android.
- 8.6Dashboard / Report / Visualization Interactivity on Mobile(7) Ratings
In-app dashboard reports and data visualization.
Application Program Interfaces (APIs) / Embedding
APIs are a set of routines, protocols, and tools for used for embedding one application in another
- 8.9REST API(7) Ratings
REST is an architecture style for designing networked applications
- 8.7Javascript API(7) Ratings
A Javascript API is a type of API
- 9iFrames(6) Ratings
An iFrame is an HTML document embedded inside another HTML document on a website
- 8.9Java API(8) Ratings
A Java application programming interface (API) is a list of all classes that are part of the Java development kit (JDK)
- 8.3Themeable User Interface (UI)(6) Ratings
A themeable user interface means that a specific visual them can be applied to it
- 9.2Customizable Platform (Open Source)(5) Ratings
A customizable, open source API Gateway is a fast and scalable type of API
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(1-11 of 11)The best business analysis tool for any organization: MicrosoftAzure Analysis Services
- 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.
Best Analysis Service
- 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
The Perfect Tool (if you have expertise)
- 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)
"Microsoft's best cloud tool, Best for analytics"
- 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.
Stunning product with great visuals
- Visually pleasing
- Easy to write queries
- Easy to read results
- Web version is a bit weaker
- Publishing issues sometimes are a bit too complex
Worth your investment
- Analytics
- Generating insights
- Provides platform as a service for data models
- Interface is challenging for beginners
- Regular monitoring is needed.
Can't Go Wrong With It!
- Cloud storage
- Seemless layering
- Most affordable cloud service we've used so far
- Very secure
- A better interface design would be more visually appealing.
Convenient and easy to use PAAS with multiple modeling features
- Automating repeated processes
- Integrating APIs with data models
- Buildings interactive charts and visuals effectively and instantly
- Deploying new insights model can be optimised
Top-notch Enterprise-grade Analytics. Transform complex data into one version of truth.
- 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.
Good Analytics Tool
- Visualizations
- Analysis
- Dashboarding
- RBAC
- Documentation
- Drill Down & Up Capabilities
- Ability to connect to external sources of data
Cloud Platform to Ease Clouded Thinking
- Ease of use
- Easy to integrate with other Microsoft related software
- Intuitive app
- More tooltip instructions