For the IT professional on the go
January 24, 2019
For the IT professional on the go
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Overall Satisfaction with Microsoft BI
We use it in various pockets across our organization. We use trend analytics, reports, and interactive dashboards all the time, but the real workhorse is the Marketing cost data aggregation toolkit. We also connect PowerBI with SQL integrated OLAP databases, enabling us to leverage data housed within SAP with extracted data to create visual dashboards to track various KPI metrics on a daily basis.
- Microsoft BI allows us to combine data from multiple sources, build data models, create visualizations, and share the results.
- Cloud Interactive charts in a cloud that can be easily shared
- Connectors to popular data sources, allowing us to integrate with almost any system
- More authentication methods to allow power users to connect directly to Web APIs.
- It can be quite difficult to setup without guided assistance from experienced users
- Limits on dataset size.
We initially considered Google Analytics, but eventually decided against it due to the licensing terms and the associated software that we would need to incorporate. IBM Cognos is great at what it does, as long as you are trying to integrate with software that is on their compatibility list. Thus, in the end, we went with Microsoft BI.