Microsoft BI Review
November 07, 2016

Microsoft BI Review

Anonymous | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User

Overall Satisfaction with Microsoft BI

Microsoft BI is a great tool and it is being used by select departments within my organization for reporting. We run analytics on a variety of metrics and Microsoft BI helps us keep on top of that. The business problems it addresses are our needs for reliable data and reports.

Pros

  • Variety of graphics and visualizations
  • Intuitive to use
  • Highly customizatble

Cons

  • Competence in Excel is necessary to be able to use Microsoft BI effectively
  • Integration with data sources should be easier
  • Not easy to integrate with our SAP sources
  • Clearer data and analytics
  • Better able to take decisions based on results
  • Improved efficiency
Microsoft BI is ideal for proficient Excel users, and it is the best choice in terms of visualizations. We decided to use Microsoft BI for these reasons.
Microsoft BI is great if you are a proficient Excel user. This program allows you to get more from your data and there are not many scenarios where Microsoft BI would not be suited for creating reports and visualizations. Our only hangup with Microsoft BI is the issues we had with integration and importing/exporting data from some sources.

Microsoft BI (MSBI) Feature Ratings

BI Platform ()
Not Rated
Supported Data Sources ()
Not Rated
9.0
Pixel Perfect reports
9
Customizable dashboards
9
Report Formatting Templates
9
8.0
Drill-down analysis
9
Formatting capabilities
9
Integration with R or other statistical packages
7
Report sharing and collaboration
7
8.7
Publish to Web
Not Rated
Publish to PDF
9
Report Versioning
8
Report Delivery Scheduling
9
8.3
Pre-built visualization formats (heatmaps, scatter plots etc.)
9
Location Analytics / Geographic Visualization
8
Predictive Analytics
8
10.0
Multi-User Support (named login)
10
Role-Based Security Model
10
Multiple Access Permission Levels (Create, Read, Delete)
10
Not Rated
Responsive Design for Web Access
Not Rated
Mobile Application
Not Rated
Dashboard / Report / Visualization Interactivity on Mobile
Not Rated
Application Program Interfaces (APIs) / Embedding ()
Not Rated

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