Item: Microsoft BI (MSBI)
Rating: 10
Author: Scott Lerner

Overall Satisfaction with Microsoft BI

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Microsoft BI is being utilized throughout the organization. Executive management and sales representatives are looking not only at sales but profitability all the way down to the transaction level. Product Management continues to look and analyze profitability at the product level as well. The company has been “healthier” since implementing Microsoft BI from a profitability and cash standpoint.

Pros and Cons

Pros

Easy to use and create KPI's with Dashboards for a wide user base
Pulling data from multiple sources via Excel
Easily supportive
Low cost to maintain

Cons

More end user friendly Dashboard designer.

Return on Investment

Provided visibility at the Transactions level from a profitability standpoint
Sales reps are now using BI Dashboards to measure their success not just net sales
Company now measures customers from as well at a profitability standpoint

Alternatives Considered

The Microsoft BI tool both from an integration and cost / investment standpoint makes perfect sense as to why we chose the Microsoft BI tool.

Likelihood to Renew

Cost, ease of use and standardization of the Microsoft stack.

Likelihood to Recommend

We selected Microsoft’s BI tool for the fact that a tool was needed to measure the company above and beyond “just sales”. We also needed a tool that could grow with Graham-Field. While there were many tools to choose from during the section process, having a Microsoft platform from data to portals makes the Microsoft BI tool a much easier choice from both an integration and implementation standpoint.

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Microsoft BI tool provides the visibility into the business that could make strategic decisions at a low cost with ease of implementation.

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