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Microsoft BI Review

Poor support for XML, but it has good integration with other Microsoft products.

Valuable Features

All the features are valuable.

Improvements to My Organization

We empower users with Enterprise BI and Self Service BI by Microsoft BI.

Room for Improvement

Microsoft has poor support for XML.

Use of Solution

I've used it for four years.

Deployment Issues

There were no issues, and it has good integration with other Microsoft products.

Stability Issues

We do have issues, but we can solve them ourselves.

Scalability Issues

We do have issues, but we can solve them ourselves.

Customer Service and Technical Support

Customer Service:

It's good.

Technical Support:

We are more expert than they are.

Previous Solutions

We used Infobeacon and then we added Microsoft BI to Cognos. We are currently looking for a better product and are evaluating Tableau.

Initial Setup

It is easy to implement Microsoft BI.

Implementation Team

Several projects we implemented through vendors and most we implemented in house. We are more expert than they are.

Other Solutions Considered

We didn’t have another option.

Other Advice

Quality of data, flexibility and the performance of the tool(s) are the critical aspects of BI. Test the critical aspects by doing a proof of concept using a huge amount of data.

Disclosure: I am a real user, and this review is based on my own experience and opinions.
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