Microsoft BI is a great product. Highly Recommend.
January 28, 2020

Microsoft BI is a great product. Highly Recommend.

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

Overall Satisfaction with Microsoft BI

We have a BI team that manages the applications and the resources and connects the multitude of data sources into its data warehouse for analytics and reporting. We create multiple dashboards for different departments as they need. One business need we use it for is wait times in clinics. We can determine what days of the year are the busiest to ensure we don't incur any staffing issues and then use the data to promote wait times on market billboards externally for potential patients.
  • Able to connect to multiple data sources.
  • Canned reports are great and custom reports are better.
  • Can be costly to implement. Not cost effective for SMB. No mid-market tier pricing.
  • Knowledge in programming a plus.
Ease of use and it's fluent with Office products for exporting and presentations of data.
Microsoft BI is great for data warehousing and consolidation.

Microsoft BI (MSBI) Feature Ratings

Pixel Perfect reports
8
Customizable dashboards
8
Report Formatting Templates
8
Drill-down analysis
8
Formatting capabilities
8
Integration with R or other statistical packages
7
Report sharing and collaboration
9
Publish to Web
9
Publish to PDF
10
Report Versioning
9
Report Delivery Scheduling
9
Delivery to Remote Servers
5
Pre-built visualization formats (heatmaps, scatter plots etc.)
7
Location Analytics / Geographic Visualization
9
Predictive Analytics
9
Multi-User Support (named login)
9
Role-Based Security Model
9
Multiple Access Permission Levels (Create, Read, Delete)
8
Single Sign-On (SSO)
9
Responsive Design for Web Access
7
Mobile Application
7
Dashboard / Report / Visualization Interactivity on Mobile
8
REST API
5
Javascript API
9
iFrames
9
Java API
9
Themeable User Interface (UI)
5
Customizable Platform (Open Source)
6