Microsoft BI - A Brand Trust worthy
March 10, 2016
Microsoft BI - A Brand Trust worthy
Score 7 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Overall Satisfaction with Microsoft BI
We have used Microsoft BI for various business requirements, including:
-> Deployment of balance scoreboard comprising of information pertaining to the company’s financial health, production data, scheduled deliveries and other such critical data.
-> Deployment of various MIS reports for Marketing and Production (the highlight being the dashboard, which captures the company’s overall performance in summary format with drilling down option, pending order status – customer wise, order wise, date wise, etc.)
-> Deployment of production dashboard – Summary of production details of the work centers with detailed drill-down abilities.
-> Deployment of balance scoreboard comprising of information pertaining to the company’s financial health, production data, scheduled deliveries and other such critical data.
-> Deployment of various MIS reports for Marketing and Production (the highlight being the dashboard, which captures the company’s overall performance in summary format with drilling down option, pending order status – customer wise, order wise, date wise, etc.)
-> Deployment of production dashboard – Summary of production details of the work centers with detailed drill-down abilities.
- It enables to create dashboards which gives an overview on the current standings in terms of revenue, sales etc. Some dashboards can also provide current risks in the system which needs immediate attention. Moreover it can provide overview of the health of their organization.
- The Reporting services in Microsoft BI can be used for creation Operational Reports and some custom reports. The drag and drop features enables the end user to customize the report based on the data points available. The data cubes which are strategically designed is an enabler to the end user to create some meaningful and useful operational reports for decision making.
- Sharepoint services can be used to collaborate data and share across users in the organization with ease.
- The authorization process is not simple for a naive user. It requires complete understanding of the system for someone to give authorization to an user.
- Data Mining within BI is not a powerful tool as compared with its competitors. There are additional features which are found missing with Microsoft BI.
- Integration of BI with other system is also an challenge and not straight forward.
Oracle is primarily one amongst the leader in ERP applications and they have quite easily leveraged their BI products to offer pre-built dashboard and operational reporting which is received well by the users. But with Microsoft BI there are host of other features which beats its competitors. Easy of use, navigation, layouts, etc are primarily easy to connect to for the users.