Microsoft Business Intelligence is a quick and cheap way to start practicing with data visualization.
December 07, 2018
Microsoft Business Intelligence is a quick and cheap way to start practicing with data visualization.
Score 9 out of 10
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Overall Satisfaction with Microsoft BI
Microsoft BI is currently being used across the organization by all departments who have staff interested in tapping the hidden value of their data. It allows users to create their own queries and visualize them without a large time investment to learn the software. Ad hoc reporting is easier to accomplish using MS BI than some of the other data mining software out there.
- Easy to learn the software.
- Allows complex queries to be created ad hoc and ran against databases quickly.
- Gives the users the ability to empower their departments by setting up easy to implement visualizations.
- Understanding the full scope of the software takes a lot of time.
- It doesn't handle very large datasets well, importing can take a while.
- I have not found a way to build scheduled reports.
SQL server allows for a member of the database administrators team to assist the end users with queries designed to pull information out of the back end databases. With Microsoft BI the end users can be given connections that allow them to create their own queries, pull the data out, and visualize it for easier consumption.