Microsoft BI- Delivering Power
Software Version
Power BI, SSIS, SSRS, SSAS, SSMS
Modules Used
- 2012
- 2008
Overall Satisfaction with Microsoft BI
We use Microsoft BI to build out platforms that allow a wide range of users and audiences to interact with relevant data in near real time. This allows the users to make better business decisions enabling them to increase sales, manage expenses, and avoid risks.
Pros
- Microsoft BI is very easy to use and provides a number of interfaces that allow developers to build out solutions in the manner that is easiest for them. Development can be done nearly entirely through GUI interfaces, or you can do advanced programming and application integration.
- Microsoft BI provides enterprise class Business Intelligence for a fraction of the price of their competitors while at the same time making it far easier to manage the entire platform.
- Microsoft BI is already integrated with your entire Office suite and easily integrates with SharePoint, SQL, all Microsoft Products, as well as any third party software or data you use.
Cons
- The latest versions of Microsoft BI has addressed nearly all of my complaints. The only remaining item would be the ability to uniformly color coordinate metrics across the entire reporting platform. Example, automatically Profit should be Green while Loss should be Red in any chart. Or Wisconsin should be Green and Minnesota should be Purple. This is VERY minor to me, but to some customers this can be a bigger deal.
- The main front end for Microsoft BI is now Excel. The number one spreadsheet tool used in business that everyone already knows how to use. Now it is just a matter of showing a few new features and some best practices. That's a huge ROI gain right there.
I have used many BI tools, and while they all serve a purpose, none of them can compete as strongly across as many metrics as Microsoft.
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