Pros and Cons of Azure Analysis Services 2024

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…

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The best business analysis tool for any organization: MicrosoftAzure Analysis Services

Rating: 9 out of 10

November 22, 2022

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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 w...

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Engineer

1 year of experience

Best Analysis Service

Rating: 9 out of 10

November 19, 2022

IncentivizedVetted ReviewVerified User

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 t...

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Employee

2 years of experience

The Perfect Tool (if you have expertise)

Rating: 10 out of 10

November 11, 2022

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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.

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Director

1 year of experience

"Microsoft's best cloud tool, Best for analytics"

Rating: 8 out of 10

November 9, 2022

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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 maintaini...

Abhishek Nandi

Engineer - Research & Development

Sr. Engineer

GreyOrange

2 years of experience

Stunning product with great visuals

Rating: 9 out of 10

November 9, 2022

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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...

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Employee

2 years of experience

Worth your investment

Rating: 9 out of 10

November 5, 2022

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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 tak...

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Employee

1 year of experience

Can't Go Wrong With It!

Rating: 10 out of 10

November 5, 2022

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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 Se...

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Manager

1 year of experience

Top-notch Enterprise-grade Analytics. Transform complex data into one version of truth.

Rating: 10 out of 10

November 4, 2022

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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,...

Pradeep Panwar

Engineer - Engineering

Lead Mechanical Engineer

GE

1 year of experience

Good Analytics Tool

Rating: 8 out of 10

November 4, 2022

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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. E...

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Engineer

1 year of experience

Cloud Platform to Ease Clouded Thinking

Rating: 9 out of 10

November 18, 2021

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Used by the whole organization to maintain the data in a cloud environment for scalability and moving towards Big Data implementation

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Employee

1 year of experience

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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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No setup fee

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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

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Drill-down analysis
(7) Ratings
Drill down analysis is the ability to get to a further level of detail by going deeper into the hierarchy.
8.9
Formatting capabilities
(8) Ratings
Ability to format output e.g. conditional formatting, lines, headers, footers.
8.9
Integration with R or other statistical packages
(8) Ratings
Integration with the open-source R predictive modeling environment.
9
Report sharing and collaboration
(9) 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

Avg 8.3

9.1
Publish to Web
(9) Ratings
8.9
Publish to PDF
(8) Ratings
9.4
Report Versioning
(8) Ratings
Report versioning is the assignment of version numbers to each version of a report to help in tracking.
9
Report Delivery Scheduling
(9) Ratings
Report Delivery Schedule is the ability to have reports delivered to a destination at a specific data and time.
8.7
Delivery to Remote Servers
(8) 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.

9.1

Avg 8.0

9.3
Pre-built visualization formats (heatmaps, scatter plots etc.)
(7) Ratings
Pre-built visualization formats are canned visualization types that can be selected to visualize different kinds of data.
9.1
Location Analytics / Geographic Visualization
(8) Ratings
Location analytics is the visualization of geographical or spatial data.
8.7
Predictive Analytics
(7) 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.

9.3

Avg 8.5

9.3
Multi-User Support (named login)
(8) Ratings
Named model access means that users have access based on name and password.
9.3
Role-Based Security Model
(9) Ratings
Role-based access means that access to data is determined by job or position in the corporation.
9.2
Multiple Access Permission Levels (Create, Read, Delete)
(9) Ratings
Multiple access permission levels means that different levels of users have different rights.
9.5
Single Sign-On (SSO)
(8) Ratings
Allows users to use one set of login credentials to access multiple applications

Mobile Capabilities

Support for mobile devices like smartphones and tablets.

8.8

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

8.9

Avg 7.9

8.9
REST API
(7) Ratings
REST is an architecture style for designing networked applications
8.7
Javascript API
(7) Ratings
A Javascript API is a type of API
9
iFrames
(6) Ratings
An iFrame is an HTML document embedded inside another HTML document on a website
8.9
Java API
(8) Ratings
A Java application programming interface (API) is a list of all classes that are part of the Java development kit (JDK)
8.6
Themeable User Interface (UI)
(5) Ratings
A themeable user interface means that a specific visual them can be applied to it
9.2
Customizable Platform (Open Source)
(4) Ratings
A customizable, open source API Gateway is a fast and scalable type of API

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Product Details

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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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Mobile Application	No

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 and Single Sign-On (SSO) highest, with a score of 9.5.

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

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The best business analysis tool for any organization: MicrosoftAzure Analysis Services

Rating: 9 out of 10

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November 22, 2022

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Verified User

1 year of experience

Pros and Cons

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.

Best Analysis Service

Rating: 9 out of 10

Incentivized

November 19, 2022

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Verified User

2 years of experience

Pros and Cons

Integrates with many Azure services
Provides secure, role-based access to your critical data.

The Perfect Tool (if you have expertise)

Rating: 10 out of 10

Incentivized

November 11, 2022

Verified User

Vetted Review

Verified User

1 year of experience

Pros and Cons

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

"Microsoft's best cloud tool, Best for analytics"

Rating: 8 out of 10

Incentivized

November 09, 2022

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Abhishek Nandi

Sr. Engineer

GreyOrange (Information Technology & Services, 1001-5000 employees)

Vetted Review

Verified User

2 years of experience

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Pros and Cons

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.

Stunning product with great visuals

Rating: 9 out of 10

Incentivized

November 09, 2022

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Verified User

2 years of experience

Pros and Cons

Visually pleasing
Easy to write queries
Easy to read results

Worth your investment

Rating: 9 out of 10

Incentivized

November 05, 2022

Verified User

Vetted Review

Verified User

1 year of experience

Pros and Cons

Analytics
Generating insights
Provides platform as a service for data models

Can't Go Wrong With It!

Rating: 10 out of 10

Incentivized

November 05, 2022

Verified User

Vetted Review

Verified User

1 year of experience

Pros and Cons

Cloud storage
Seemless layering
Most affordable cloud service we've used so far
Very secure

Top-notch Enterprise-grade Analytics. Transform complex data into one version of truth.

Rating: 10 out of 10

Incentivized

November 04, 2022

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Pradeep Panwar

Lead Mechanical Engineer

GE (Machinery, 10,001+ employees)

Vetted Review

Verified User

1 year of experience

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Pros and Cons

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.