Microsoft Power BI Scalability
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Tariq Raza (MS Certified)
Operations & BI Analyst at American Hospital Dubai
In terms of adding more users, there shouldn't be any issues or limitations. Currently, I am using it for my personal use.
For very big companies with large-scale data and many rules, there would be speed issues with Power BI. Therefore, I don't recommend Power BI at this level. For such organizations, Tableau is the best solution. I have tried Tableau in many companies with many nodes, and I found no speed issues with Tableau. So, I won't recommend Power BI for organizations where 2,000 or 4,000 computers are connected, and there are multiple branches with data coming from different countries.
The solution is very scalable and we do plan to increase usage.
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Ram-Krish
Cloud Security & Governance at a financial services firm with 10,001+ employees
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Microsoft Power BI could be more scalable.
I rate the solution a seven out of ten for scalability.
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Itay Oleinik
Vice President at Shiluv
We haven't scaled yet, but you have the ability to have a dedicated server on Azure with CPU. You can increase and have an SQL Server, so you can scale it.
As of now, we have around 10 to 12 users internally and externally. Some are internal, and some are external clients. We do have plans to increase the usage because we're trying to sell and market the product to other clients as well. So, we do have plans to increase the number of users. One of the benefits is that it doesn't matter if we have 10, 20, or 50 users. It doesn't inflict any costs on us because they go directly to the cloud. They don't come to us. It is very indirect, but we do plan to extend the usage of that system. We might also extend it internally.
View full review »It is scalable, but achieving scalability necessitates subscribing to higher tiers of the product.
View full review »The cloud version is scalable.
View full review »If you try to have a big enterprise data model, it doesn't scale so well. You wouldn't get results similar to some of the other on-premises tools.
In terms of its users, I don't know the exact number, but we have about 10,000 to 20,000 users. Its usage is increasing.
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Harish-Mahanta
Sr PeopleSoft Consultant at Mahanta Solutions
I would rate the scalability a ten out of ten. It's very scalable.
View full review »It's a cloud-based platform, and it scales seamlessly based on your usage, which is one of the key advantages of cloud services. You pay according to your usage, without worrying about licenses or ownership. However, there are some limitations to consider. While it's a front-end tool for visualization and analytics, it lacks extensive customization options. If you require complex reports or queries, Microsoft offers support to help you achieve those goals. In my experience over the past five years, I haven't encountered any use case that couldn't be addressed with Power BI. On the contrary, I faced performance issues with other tools like Spotfire, which prompted us to explore different solutions. The effectiveness of Power BI also depends on factors like architecture, deployment, and network quality. If network configurations aren't optimized, it can lead to slow data transfer. However, being a cloud-based solution, the cloud infrastructure often manages these issues. Nevertheless, if you want the best performance, you might need to invest in improving your network infrastructure.
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reviewer1671858
Program Director Education Technology & Data Services at a government with 5,001-10,000 employees
I honestly can't comment on how scalable Microsoft BI is because I've never taken it beyond training or simple use. But I would imagine, if it's on Azure, that it's scalable. I haven't had the pleasure of scaling it, so I don't know, but it doesn't strike me as a solution that would have problems with scalability.
View full review »Microsoft BI is a part of Microsoft Power Platform, because of which Microsoft can increase its capacity based on the needs and licenses of its users.
Around 20 people in my company use Microsoft BI.
My company plans to increase the use of Microsoft BI.
Power BI is scalable, but its scalability depends on factors like the amount of data, infrastructure, and database type. For large BI data, other tools might be more suitable. However, Power BI offers great flexibility, and its scalability varies based on specific needs and circumstances.
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IdanEnright
Inovation Manager at SoCalGas
Microsoft BI has scaled very well for us. We have a very large organization with users all across the company.
We have approximately 100 users using this solution. It's a standard program for analysts and even managers will use it. It is a standard business analyst software.
The solution is extensively being used in our organization.
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Swarupa Kallu
Project Manager at GlaxoSmithKline
The solution is scalable but we haven't yet migrated everyone to Power BI. Our users are not finding Power BI as good as Pique, which perhaps they're just more used to. They're trying but some of the features available in Pique are not there so they are not comprehensively using it. It's being used mainly for internal analysis for now.
I would rate the scalability an eight out of ten.
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reviewer1264689
Director, IoT and Connected Products Portfolio at a computer software company with 10,001+ employees
The solution can scale. It meets our needs.
View full review »The scalability has been great. If a company needs to expand it, it can.
In my organization, there are about 10 to 20 users. The majority have shifted to Qlick.
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RicardoPedro
Northern Europe IT Business Intelligence Manager at Adecco
The product is scalable, and new updates come out every month.
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Cort Rowland
Lead Senior Engineer at a manufacturing company with 10,001+ employees
The scalability of the product has been fine. We can expand it if we want to.
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Dawn McClure
IT Project Manager at a manufacturing company with 10,001+ employees
It's mainly used by developers. We have 10 to 20 developers who are using this solution in our organization.
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reviewer1521363
Digital Strategy Manager at a energy/utilities company with 10,001+ employees
The solution scales very well. If a company needs to expand its offering, it can do so easily. It's one of the selling points of the solution.
We have about 60 to 70 people on the solution currently.
We already are deployed it at a global level. It's just not India-based. We use it across our organization, and it is getting used a lot.
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Bronagh McManus
Assistant Manager - Forensic Data Analytics at Grant Thornton
I rate the tool’s scalability an eight out of ten.
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Marcelo Pissinati
IT Cybersecurity and Compliance Coordinator at Plaenge
I would rate the scalability a nine out of ten.
We have plans to increase our usage in the future.
View full review »The development is very easy because it depends on each computer. Power BI is a desktop solution that you install on your computer. Once I complete my development, I publish through the internet, which the external users are using. The number of users doesn't matter.
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WinayakWagle
Owner at Pranali Consultants
The solution is quite scalable. Of course, it requires data strategy just like any solution or any tool.
We tend to have 100 to 200 users at a minimum using the solution.
The solution is extensively deployed. We have plans to use it on an ongoing basis. They come out with new versions and new features every month, and this constant updating and iteration of the product have really been very helpful for us to provide more advanced solutions.
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Nathan Gadson
Managing Director at Streamline Strategies
I would rate it an eight out of 10 in terms of scalability. Currently, we are running a pilot. We're doing a pilot for army headquarters. They dictate what happens and what they use. Currently, there are 10 users, but I'm looking to go up to at least a hundred.
We got an architect and an assistant administrator. We got a staff of three and a half people because people take vacations or sick leaves. The good part about it is that these people can work from anywhere.
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TarekYehia
Technical Consultant at LinkDev
Scalability-wise, I rate the solution a nine out of ten.
Around 100 people in my company use the product. Most of the product's users are managers in my company.
The problematic licensing part of the product influences my company's decision on whether to increase the use of the product.
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reviewer1566945
Statistician / Data Scientist at a government with 1,001-5,000 employees
It is a scalable product but it could be improved to better suit the overall size of projects.
I would rate the scalability a seven out of ten.
There are around 50 end users in my organization. We plan to increase the further usage.
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JasminaMarkovic
BI Developer at a tech services company with 51-200 employees
Microsoft BI offers scalability, particularly with the availability of premium capacity. With premium capacity, whether it's per user or a dedicated resource, Microsoft BI can effectively handle increased data volumes and accommodate growing user needs.
Microsoft BI offers scalability in specific areas, but it is important to note that scalability options are limited to certain aspects and may come at a higher cost. For instance, the premium package, which starts at around $5,000 or more, provides enhanced scalability features. However, if you opt for the per-user licensing model, the scalability may be constrained as it is tied to the number of licensed users. Therefore, in terms of scalability, the per-user option may have limitations compared to other packages.
View full review »I don't know if it's scalable to the point that we want it. It seems to fit where we have it. We haven't really looked at its scalability. We have other tools, but it works well for what it's doing today.
There are roughly half a dozen users of this solution, and it has sales-related information. There is one driver, and she merges the information. So, there aren't too many rules at this point.
We don't have any plans to increase its usage at this time.
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reviewer1752714
Chief Manager at a insurance company with 10,001+ employees
The product can scale. It's not a problem.
We currently have 300 company employees using the solution.
We're getting pushed to use the solution even more. In the next few months, we're likely to increase usage.
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reviewer1659204
Senior Manager.Marketing Strategy & Analysis. at a marketing services firm with 10,001+ employees
The scalability is good. If you have a direct query, Microsoft BI can run on billions of rows of data.
Microsoft BI is available to the 70,000 users in my organization.
This solution is used extensively because everyone has access to it, not because it is the best.
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MartinAnderson
Owner at BNS
I haven't tried to scale it, but in theory, I know that is capable. Power BI Premium is easy to scale as long as you have the money.
Inside the business, we only have one user, and outside the business, we have our clients where we have four developers who use this solution.
Our clients are medium-sized companies with 50 to 100 users.
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Santosh Kurakula
Group DWH and BI Senior Manager at Virgin Mobile Middle East and Africa
My understanding is that the solution is scalable.
I can easily load a billion rows in less than two or three minutes and play around with it. However, I haven't tested on big data files or anything like that.
Right now, we don't have too many users. It's just three to four people as of now, as our primary BI tool is still Qlik Sense. It's only for ad hoc use cases we use Power BI, and just myself and a couple of team members, as well as the BI specialist, that access it.
View full review »The tool is scalable. We can create multiple reports. We have two to three customers who use the solution. Within the client organizations, teams can use different solutions. It depends on the client’s needs.
View full review »I'm rating the scalability of Microsoft Power BI a nine out of ten. Its scalability is really good, because Microsoft has put in a lot of effort. They have a lot of connectors that let us bring in a lot of data, and even if we don't have enough data, we can use HTTP and REST API code to get data, so that's good.
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reviewer1142208
Director at a manufacturing company with 1,001-5,000 employees
We could scale up to premium or Azure. We're fine.
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reviewer1516839
Information Architect at a government with 10,001+ employees
It is very scalable. It fits perfectly with the larger Azure Data Lake reference architecture. Power BI platform is a fundamental piece, and it becomes scalable to use with other components within that reference architecture.
We're in the process of laying out a three-phase approach. Over the next year, its usage will increase from 50% to 75%. In terms of the number of users, we have around 150 users who are data scientists and data analysts. We have around 5,500 desktop users, and it is a part of 365, which is on every desktop.
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Ermanuel Policarpio
Head of business transformation and digitalization at Apple
It's scalable. You can be a junior developer and work on your mini projects or your supporting mini team, and you can create your own presentation with Power BI, as simple as that. You can also handle multi-database projects and huge enterprise level data and combine all the different systems, get all the data, and put it into Power BI. Power BI has the capability and the power to cater that.
View full review »As long as I can scale my data, I can scale the product. I just put my data into Power BI and do what I need to do.
The data solution we have is open source. The whole team is working on it, and that's a team of 15 people. The number of people that are actively writing and reporting is maybe six or seven people. Maybe two or three people seeing are seeing report deposits and getting the outcomes.
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Amarnath K
OBIEE/ODI senior consultant at Kastech
The scalability is very good and use of the application is flexible.
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VikasKapoor
CFO at Travel Food Services ltd
The solution is scalable. We are a cluster of eight legal entities and we've been able to expand to all of them. We started with 20 outlets and today we have 350 outlets. We are more granular and today Power BI allows us to drill down to the last voucher. We have around 14 users from the finance and operations teams.
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BlessingSithole
Software Engineer at syntegra
We are rolling out the solution to various clients and one of them is a large client in the manufacturing industry. The solution scalability is very good, we can do a lot with it.
We have about 40 users at the moment. As we continue to expand, we are looking at approximately 20 companies with about five users at a time. Currently, we have done five companies, but I think by the end of this quarter, we should have about 100 users in total. At the end of the year, we hope to have at least 200 users from different financial departments in different companies. It is my team that does the financial reporting, we also have other companies that have the operations and logistics. We are looking to probably double that figure because eventually, we should be moving to the enterprise license. We had seen that the enterprise license will be beneficial to us. If everything goes as planned, we are looking at about 500 users at some point.
View full review »Microsoft BI is a very scalable tool. You can start small and build up your project as you wish.
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Rohit B
Lead Statistical Analyst | Innovation Champion at a pharma/biotech company with 10,001+ employees
I think it's very scalable. I don't even foresee that as a challenge.
We have five or six users who view the reports. There are other departments who might be using it as well but we have five or six in my department. It's expected to rise to 15, 20.
The users are managers who want to look at some of the resources.
View full review »Scalability-wise, I rate the solution a seven out of ten.
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Ariful Mondal
Global Data Architecture and Data Science Director at FH
Given that there is a server version for services that can be used to implement and roll out reports at the organizational level, it's scalable.
In my current organization, I am training 15 people on how to use it and I am looking to expand to 50 users.
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Manu Boudewyn
IT Enterprise Architect - Partnership at a consultancy with 51-200 employees
It's not easily scalable for us, in the way that we consider scalability. You have to be careful when considering an upgrade to your capacity plan, which comes with an extra cost. Alternatively, you need to simplify the reports that you have designed with your plan and eventually remodel them to accommodate further usage without unnecessary cost.
Even then, you are confronted with various product limitations or scalability constraints. For example, there is a maximum amount of queries that you can launch simultaneously. Ultimately, you need to remain cautious because it's not a one-size-fits-all approach especially when it comes to the price.
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Irving Ginzburg
President & Owner at Altrim Systems
I believe it is a scalable product. I'm aware that they have other products on the market, but I haven't tried them. To analyze data, it appears to be scalable to fairly large businesses. Scalability is quite good.
It is not a single organization. It's amongst a few clients of mine. I would estimate the number of users to be about 20, 25, or something along those lines. Their roles vary a lot. Several users are salespeople and people in purchasing. There are also people in management who use it and people in the accounting area as well. There are also one or two more technical users who use it to export data to Excel PivotTables. These are the people who make use of it.
For one client, it's very extensively used. Others, I wouldn't say that it is used as extensively. They could use it a lot more.
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Rakesh Acharya
Manager Technical Architect at Legato Health Technologies
I feel that scalability is one area where there is room for improvement. When there is a huge volume of data, like when we apply the aggregation, the reporting slows down. That's why we mostly build things in the SSAS cube itself instead of bringing it back to Microsoft BI to do the aggregation. Certain incredibly small aggregations can be done on the Microsoft BI side, but if the dashboard size is more than 1 Gigabyte, you start to see some performance issues.
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Nurul Asyikin Wahab
Portfolio manager at a transportation company with 5,001-10,000 employees
The solution can scale. If a company needs to expand it, it can do so. It's not a problem.
Right now, in our organization, only 15 of us have the full license for the Power BI Pro. Not everyone in the office actually uses it. However, we have over 1,000 people using various other Microsoft products in our company.
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reviewer1262910
Global Director - HR Technology & Platforms at a manufacturing company with 10,001+ employees
The solution can scale well if you need it to. That shouldn't be a problem for any organization.
I'm not sure how many people are actually using the solution in our organization. Everybody has been kind of encouraged to leverage the platform on an ongoing basis. However, obviously, those that are holding jobs related to any kind of analytics are probably more prone to using it.
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Gery Vasquez
New Digital Applications Specialist at Alpina Sa
I have plans to use the solution more in the future.
I rate the scalability of Microsoft BI an eight out of ten.
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Akhilesh Shrivas
Cognos Consultant at Surtel technologies
The scalability is great. If you need to expand the product, you can do so. You can easily add more users.
I'm not sure how many users are using the product.
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Christopher Preffer
Senior Product Manager Data Science at a insurance company with 1,001-5,000 employees
It is absolutely scalable. You can scale it a lot.
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YogendraSingh
Head-IT/SAP at Barista Coffee Company Ltd.
I have found Microsoft BI to be scalable.
View full review »The scalability of the product is quite good. If a company needs to expand it, it can.
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reviewer1620744
VP Cloud Platform
It's easy to scale if you have the premium model. We just started exploring that right now.
The clients we have that use it are medium-sized businesses. These are basically soccer clubs or sports clubs, who are internally using it. however, we want to give it to a larger audience. We haven't gone there yet, though likely we will in the future.
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Smita S
Founder/Director at Thoughtschools
More than 5,000 people are using Microsoft BI in our organization.
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reviewer1753443
Cloud business Director at a tech services company with 51-200 employees
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AndreaD'Orio
Chief Technical Officer at Value Partners
The product scales well. If a company needs to expand it, it's not a problem.
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Dan Moisescu
Advisor to the Zambia Revenues Authority at GIZ
We have not scaled the solution much. However, we will extend next year the number of users we currently have to 300. At the moment we're only working with a restricted number of users. We will also extend the number of sources of data.
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reviewer1638714
Junior Data Scientist at a university with 5,001-10,000 employees
Microsoft BI is quite scalable, especially with the number of coding languages that are available to use.
We have approximately 23 data scientists in our organization who are using this solution. We use it extensively.
We are mostly using Microsoft BI but we are trying to bring in Tableau and maximize the potential of both.
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Ankur Arya
Solution Architect
This solution is fully configurable and totally scalable. We are currently expanding the solution to include the area collections managers, the territory collection managers, and the regional collection managers. There are currently close to 3,000 users who are field collection agents. There is a maintenance cost but it's pretty low because it's an on-premise solution, so there is no cost attached to the server-based maintenance. Our support team is responsible for maintenance.
The solution is currently used throughout the company although there are geographical restrictions. They plan to extend usage to a pan-country level. It will take some time to implement but we are at the end stages of deployment on the pan-country level. Once completed, we expect there will be around 15,000 users.
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reviewer1565994
Technical Director, Information Management at a construction company with 5,001-10,000 employees
It is scalable based on licensing. You would need premium and additional organizational licenses. Mostly everyone in the organization uses this feature. We have around 4,000 users of this solution in our organization, which includes a lot of project management people.
We don't have any plans to increase the usage in the future. We are currently content with its usage.
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reviewer1537956
MI Manager at a recruiting/HR firm with 1,001-5,000 employees
It is scalable once you've got your ducks in a row. We live in a world of fast-paced data. The business I am working in is dealing with a lot of unstructured data, so it has to go through the data onboarding transformation piece. It is more scalable if it connects to a data warehouse, but connecting to an Excel spreadsheet or unstructured data requires enormous amounts of investment. I have seen some other tools that are more data wrangling tools, so you don't want to blur your line. You need to stick to what you're good at. Is it data visualization and modeling, or is it data transformation? They're trying to diversify and make the tool all-encompassing, but we're now having to use a different tool for data transformation or data wrangling. We then just connect it to a data warehouse, and it becomes a really slick and scalable tool.
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reviewer1477869
Senior Consultant at a computer software company with 10,001+ employees
The solution is pretty scalable. It meets all of my client's requirements. I'm able to make changes and expand if I need to. It's pretty simple to scale it out as necessary.
We deal, for the most part, with medium-sized companies. We don't really deal with smaller organizations or bigger enterprises.
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Murali_Krishna
Executive Vice President at a security firm with 201-500 employees
Its scalability is good. The only issue is the performance that degrades when more data comes in, but when it comes to scalability within a particular level of data, it is really good.
View full review »Adding extra machines to the cluster environment is not difficult but certainly needs experienced developers/implementers to do that.
View full review »It works well for a large number of users. We have almost 15 to 20 end users.
View full review »It is a scalable product. We have around 100 Microsoft Power BI users in our organization. We are expecting growth in the number of users.
View full review »The scalability of Power BI is quite good.
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reviewer1776825
Practice Manager at a computer software company with 10,001+ employees
I find Microsoft Power BI scalable.
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reviewer1236651
Accounting Services Finance Manager M&S at a hospitality company with 10,001+ employees
The scalability is good. If a company wants to, it can expand.
We have about 15 to 20 people that use the solution.
We're not sure if we will expand usage in the future or not. That's still to be decided.
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reviewer1417392
Contact Center Consultant at a consultancy with 51-200 employees
The solution has been scalable for what I use it for.
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reviewer1447362
Manager - Customer Success at a tech services company with 10,001+ employees
I wouldn't describe the solution as scalable.
While it is available as an option to most people in our organization, I'm not sure how many people are actually actively using it. I know that I use it myself quite often.
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reviewer1195206
Consultant at a computer software company with 10,001+ employees
I think we have scaled up Microsoft BI fairly easily because it's on a cloud. We've added users. We added more dashboards from our different service lines, and we found it fairly easy to scale up.
View full review »None.
View full review »As with any system, good design is paramount. I have certainly run into times when performance suffers, or changes and enhancements are slow and expensive. In every case, redesign has solved the issues. As hardware improves, and the many options (especially in the Azure and big data space) continue to evolve, designing for scale has become easier and easier. One of the difficulties that naturally occurs in this ecosystem is simply knowing how to design with so many options that can potentially do the same or similar task.
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Lorenzo Imperatrice
Software Engineer at Lorenzo Imperatrice
Ten users are using the solution.
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reviewer1789389
BI/BO Hana Application Consultant at a manufacturing company with 10,001+ employees
It's scalable and it scales quickly. Nowadays, being on the cloud, expanding is very easy.
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reviewer1785144
Strategy & Advisory - Solutions Architect at a financial services firm with 1,001-5,000 employees
This solution is scalable.
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reviewer1755777
Technical Analyst at a energy/utilities company with 10,001+ employees
It is easy to scale Microsoft BI.
We have a larger team. Microsoft BI specifically, is not limited to any subset or any team. I believe we have 1,000 plus users in my company currently who are using this application.
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Jose Antonio Lopez Mesa
Senior data Engineer at a tech services company with 1,001-5,000 employees
Scalability on the ETL side is not so good. When you run the workloads on service, you can fail almost anything, but it's not exactly the best for scaling.
On the virtualization side, I would say it's good.
View full review »No. In fact we were able to decommission servers and switch to using a virtual server for SSRS.
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reviewer1709679
Information Technology Architect at a financial services firm with 201-500 employees
We are not sure because we currently have a simple installation on the PC, but the idea is to scale it via Office 365 cloud implementation.
It seems suitable for small, medium, and large enterprises. It should be able to scale up. Based on the marketing slides, it should be able to handle all kinds of enterprises.
View full review »Microsoft BI is a scalable solution. Here in India, it is a popular tool for people to implement.
The client that we are working with has approximately 500 to 600 users.
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AndreasSemousu
Technical Sales Manager at Skhomo Technologies
It's highly scalable and stable.
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TariqMuhammad
Assistant General Manager at ELEVATE Solutions Limited
The product can scale. It's not an issue.
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reviewer1702647
Senior Technology Architect/Strategist at a aerospace/defense firm with 51-200 employees
Its scalability is good. I've used it in very large major banks down to smaller entities, and it seems to not care about the scale.
Currently, we probably have 50 users. Its usage is moderate. We will increase its usage if they come up with a fix for the issues such as the speed.
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Ayesha Imtiaz
Senior Analyst at a tech services company with 10,001+ employees
It is good in terms of scalability.
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Carlos Hulot
Product and Systems Director at SPCM
Microsoft BI is scalable.
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Nader MOALLA
Managing partner at a tech vendor with 1-10 employees
In our company, we have five users.
The price is an important consideration when upgrading or adding new users. In my opinion, it would be better for the price to be degressive by the user. For example, if you have five users, you simply multiply five by the unit price to find the total cost of the solution.
I believe the price should be degressive, and we should have a lower, or better unit price if we have more users.
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AmitKumar23
BI Analyst at Infosys Technology
This solution is very much scalable.
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Augusta Marbenny
MIS Specialist at a agriculture with 201-500 employees
I think Microsoft BI is scalable.
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reviewer1644669
PMO at a consultancy with 10,001+ employees
I have found it to be scalable.
We have approximately 1,000 people using the solution in my organization.
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Michele Nelson
BI Solution Engineer at DataSelf
It is complex to scale. There are just too many things you have to put in place. You got to have the gateways, and you got to have the premium service. There are a lot of components that get involved. It is not very straightforward.
We sell our own BI tool. So, we have hundreds of clients. They are mid-sized organizations. We're building out our Power BI stack because people do like it, but right now, we have most of our stuff in Tableau.
View full review »Yes.
View full review »I have found Microsoft BI to be scalable. We did an enterprise-wide deployment and every one of the 500 people in the company uses it.
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reviewer1062786
MBA, MS Business Analytics at a consultancy with 1,001-5,000 employees
Scalability is good; for the time being, it serves the purpose of what we are trying to achieve. However, we haven't attempted to scale it very much.
There should be more than a hundred users in our organization. I'm only referring to the people who develop and implement changes, whereas people who use the dashboards and view them on the entire URL on that page represent the entire organization. There are about 100 or 200 people who actually work and develop things.
For the time being, we are only using it for dashboards because we have other tools for analytics and other things.
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RichardDuggan
Owner at Richard Duggan Pty Ltd
It is scalable. I have a few large customers of this solution.
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OSCAR ACUNA
Innovation & Project Portfolio Management Practice Director at FACTUM
The scalability is good.
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Sai-Krishna
Manager, BI & Analytics at Perceptive Analytics
This product is scalable and in fact, I have worked on it with fairly large datasets. It also gives you the option of publishing onto a server. When the dashboard/report is published to the Power BI server, we get a link that can be shared with others in the organization. At the enterprise level, it is possible to give access to a list of users who will have a need to look at the report frequently. These users can just click on the link and view the report whenever they want to. It is also possible for them to use filters and interact with the report.
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reviewer936228
Manager- Projects at a computer software company with 10,001+ employees
Any Microsoft project is scalable.
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reviewer1023108
General Manager at a tech services company with 51-200 employees
While, for the most part, it is scalable, it still has its own limitations.
We have three customers that currently use the product.
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reviewer1736475
Graduate Engineer at a transportation company with 5,001-10,000 employees
Power BI is scalable. In my organization, there are probably 400 or 500 companies using this solution. We are probably going to increase our usage.
View full review »TS
reviewer1494948
Senior Manager Analytic & Insights at a hospitality company with 10,001+ employees
It can scale easily.
We have more than 50 people who are using this solution in my company. Across the company, most are in marketing and finance.
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Alberto Geminiani
Technical Director at Progetti e Soluzioni
It is easy to make it grow as a product. Our organization is not big. We have a total of 10 to 15 people who access this solution. We will continue to use it for sure.
In general, we are producing applications that we sell to our clients in a SaaS model. All data of our clients is inside our database. The clients have to manage the service. All this data that they are loading in our server can have interesting information for them. So, we are using it to understand our clients and the behavior of the user.
View full review »SH
reviewer1509708
Project Manager at a computer software company with 5,001-10,000 employees
We have not attempted to scale the solution yet. We are in the initial stage of exploring different features on it. We believe it to be a scalable product, however, we have not attempted it ourselves yet. We might in the future.
We don't have any customers on the solution right now as we are just trying to figure things out.
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Norbert Langewiesche
Interim Manager Supply Chain / IT at a consultancy with 501-1,000 employees
The scalability is good. It works for a large community just fine.
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reviewer1247253
DGM IT at a manufacturing company with 5,001-10,000 employees
The solution is scalable.
View full review »KS
KartikSharma
Lead Business Analyst at a media company with 501-1,000 employees
This is a scalable solution. We have 500 users.
View full review »GS
reviewer1722714
Operations Center Technician at a renewables & environment company with 501-1,000 employees
Microsoft BI is scalable. There are some limitations depending on the amount of data you need, but it's enough for me so far. We have about 50 users, and we'll likely increase our usage in the coming years as Microsoft adds more features and our people train themselves to do more with it.
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Bassem Amer
Technology Solutions Professional at OrchidaSoft
While the stability is okay, there is an occasional need to add extra products, such as those involving Azure data analysis and Azure Analytics Services.
Big data would require the involvement of different products, Microsoft sign ups, for example. While we did not go for this, our technical teams are trying to get up to speed to have big data rediness.
I feel like the solution has a comparatively inferior ELT or ETL tool when it comes to power and data cleansing and compares unfavorably with Informatica. There is occasionally a need to involve other solutions, such as Informatica and Alteryx.
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Chomanand Kokil
Analyst Operations with 5,001-10,000 employees
We have 30 users using the solution in my organization.
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Jose Dante Cruz Castillo
Director Comercial at Grupo Consultores
Being a cloud solution, it is very scalable. You can easily scale it based on the usage. If you're using it, you pay for it, and if you're not using it, you stop paying for it.
In our company, Power BI being used by maybe 15 people out of 70. It is a growing solution. Three years ago, we had only five people who were working with Power BI. Now, we are building more and more dashboards for our service desk area, and its usage is growing.
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CTOINBI874
Principal at a tech services company with 1-10 employees
The scaling is dependent on the data source itself, so it's not dependent on the solution. SQL Server, which is one of the strongest enterprise databases, makes that a good thing.
View full review »Microsoft BI is a scalable solution.
We have approximately 500 users using this solution in my organization. We have plans to increase the use of the solution. Our employees are getting better with the ability to use the solution.
View full review »We have not tried to scale this solution.
In our company, we have ten users.
We use this solution on a daily basis.
View full review »AN
AYANDA NKUNDLA
Senior Manager: ICT Compliance at Department of Public Service and Administration
The product is scalable. We currently have about two hundred users.
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Rajesh S
Technical Manager at a computer software company with 201-500 employees
Microsoft BI is scalable.
View full review »BY
reviewer1650804
Senior Data Engineer at a computer software company with 1,001-5,000 employees
The solution is scalable.
We have approximately 100 people in my organization using the solution and they are mostly managers.
We used the solution on a daily basis, we were using it extensively.
View full review »SM
reviewer1620273
Data Warehouse Engineer at a government with 1,001-5,000 employees
The solution is quite scalable, although, in our case, as we are not on the cloud, we are facing some issues.
We have more than ten people using the solution currently.
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reviewer1507608
New Build Completion & Commissioning at a energy/utilities company with 1,001-5,000 employees
While the scalability is there, the cost is what you have to factor in. It has to scale as if there's more data, it needs to meet that demand and be able to extract and analyze it.
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AYANDA NKUNDLA
Senior Manager: ICT Compliance at Department of Public Service and Administration
The solution is scalable. If your organization needs to expand it, it shouldn't be a problem to do so.
We have about five people on the solution, however, we don't have it fully functioning just yet.
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Salahuddin Almohammadi
Group IT Manager with 10,001+ employees
It is scalable.
View full review »RV
reviewer1268121
Technical coordinator at a university with 201-500 employees
For our use case, the solution offers reasonable scalability. We haven't run into issues.
We have 40 to 50 people using the product right now. They are across different roles.
I'm not sure if we have a plan to increase usage at this time. We likely will not.
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reviewer1759668
Associate Data Analyst at a financial services firm with 10,001+ employees
I don't know if BI is directly scalable, but we used a lot of aggregated marks in order to make sure it is able to work with a huge number of roles in the data set. Microsoft demonstrated that they were able to achieve up to one trillion rows, and we haven't got there, but we did get close.
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Greg Morley
Sales Director at Expeditus (Pty) Ltd
There are limitations and license restrictions. So if you're an enterprise that needs to increase the volume of data and users, you normally have to go to higher license models.
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Mahmoud Umar
Founder/CEO at Data.tac Nigeria Limited
We haven't had to expand because usually we just wait for the data. However, we do have plans to expand.
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reviewer1413633
Head of Digitalization at a mining and metals company with 5,001-10,000 employees
It is scalable. We have around 65 seniors managers who use it on a weekly or monthly basis. Some reports are done weekly and some monthly.
View full review »RA
reviewer1721040
Executive HR- Talent Acquisition at a computer software company with 1,001-5,000 employees
Microsoft Power BI is a scalable tool.
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reviewer1784373
Assistant Manager Databases at a retailer with 10,001+ employees
The scalability of Microsoft BI is fine.
We have approximately 45 people using the solution. We do not use the solution daily, but we use it frequently.
View full review »SK
Sai-Krishna
Manager, BI & Analytics at Perceptive Analytics
Microsoft BI is fairly scalable.
SK
reviewer1128492
System Engineer at a financial services firm with 10,001+ employees
Power BI has limited scalability. The modeling area needs to improve in this regard.
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reviewer916719
System Specialist at a government with 201-500 employees
We've never attempted to scale. I'm not sure what the process is like. I can't speak to if it's easy or difficult to do.
We have five people in our department that directly use Microsoft BI. They are professors.
While it is currently being used extensively, I cannot say that we have plans to increase usage.
View full review »NN
reviewer1028202
Functional Consultant at a manufacturing company with 1,001-5,000 employees
The scalability has been good. If a company needs to expand it, it can do so.
Right now, we have 200 people using the solution.
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LunikKanungo
Solutions Architect at a tech services company with 11-50 employees
With ITSM, there's a lot of data that they collect on that side. That could be an issue, scalability. It wasn't moved to production yet. I basically produced a report as there were some issues with the ICE data, the voicemail system, and data collection. They had some issues that they had to solve. However, they were collecting data on a daily basis. You get thousands and thousands of calls on a daily basis. It depends on how they want to store that data historically. There may be some performance issues and scalability issues, however, for me, I can't really address that, as I didn't see that side. There's always a potential for trouble.
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reviewer1517895
Partner at a tech services company with 1-10 employees
The solution is scalable. We have a couple of people using the solution in my organization.
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reviewer1467924
Compensation Coordinator at a computer software company with 1,001-5,000 employees
It is very scalable, especially because the pricing was great. Right now, they are integrating a lot with Microsoft Power Apps and the Power Platform as a whole. Power Ultimate and other things are being integrated into the system as well.
In my previous company, more than 200 to 300 people were using it on a daily basis. In my current company, we have less than ten people using it because we are still a very confined team.
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Samuel Kamau
Co-Founder at Beta Edge Technology Limited
The scalability is good. They allow for multiple types of data sources, so if you grow your databases or you change your data sources, it's easy to add them to the tool visually.
We are a startup with four people, and everybody is using it. We are proposing it to our clients in cases where we are selling analytics because it's a good option for them.
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Bidirect377
Manager at a logistics company with 501-1,000 employees
For me it's okay, I don't have any issues with scalability.
View full review »VA
reviewer1162596
Data Analyst at a healthcare company with 10,001+ employees
Microsoft BI is a scalable solution.
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reviewer1257072
Senior Business Analyst at a tech services company with 501-1,000 employees
The solution is scalable.
View full review »FM
reviewer1121292
MCSE at a financial services firm with 501-1,000 employees
We have approximately 30 people using the solution in my organization. This includes experts that make reports.
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reviewer1047609
Founder & CEO at a tech services company with 1-10 employees
I have not scaled the solution very much but I know it is highly scalable.
We have approximately five dashboard creators in my organization that is working on the solution.
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Aneesa Ebrahim
IT Service and Strategy Consultant, Facilitator at BCAP SOLUTIONS
The scalability is good.
View full review »RH
reviewer1537680
Head of Analytics Director at a tech services company with 51-200 employees
In my organization, we have around ten users. In our client's organization, we have about 100 users.
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reviewer1381863
CEO at a tech services company with 201-500 employees
You can scale it to thousands of users. It is a cloud product. Microsoft Cloud is being used by people across the world. So, there is no limitation in terms of scalability.
At the moment, we have about five users, but the number of users will increase to 50. We are absolutely going to keep using it.
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Monesh Sharma
Business Analyst at a non-tech company with 10,001+ employees
It's not very scalable because it's difficult to manage the Microsoft BI dashboard.
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Jose Barbosa
CEO at Finanblue
The scalability is good and powerful. Everyone in the company uses Microsoft tools, predictive tools. Microsoft 365, Power BI, SharePoint, Teams, Word, PowerPoint.
SR
itspec564565
IT Specialist at a wholesaler/distributor with 1-10 employees
The information which we are working on is not that deep.
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Arturo Laos
CEO at a tech services company
Our solutions are not for very many people, say 25 users. For them, it works very well. I don't know how it works with more users than that.
View full review »Sometimes, the scalability becomes an issue; instead of horizontal scaling, we always need vertical scaling.
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reviewer1760334
Head of Global Services Business Performance Management at a comms service provider with 10,001+ employees
I have found Microsoft BI to be scalable.
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Okay Akdeniz
Business Application Group Manager at OBASE
The scalability potential actually depends on your licenses. Microsoft provides three licenses. One of them is absolutely free. Another is called Pro. Yet another is per user or Premium. There is a huge difference between the Pro license and the Premium license. There is no need to scale the Pro license or other license models.
When you put the on-premise reports, you can scale out or scale up. It depends on your existing resources. However, in the services as a software (SaaS) version, it actually comes with Microsoft's units or Microsoft resources.
SG
Sumit_Gupta
BI Consultant at a manufacturing company with 1,001-5,000 employees
It has been pretty nice for us, in terms of scalability. There hasn't really been a problem, as such. We have approximately 300 users.
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Gary Gonsalves
Consultant at a consultancy with 11-50 employees
I've been using it for a year and it's only across my single department so I've not yet had to scale it to a very large level.
Across my department, there are two users. Across other departments at my company, there are many more. Most users are commercial or insights analysts.
Across our organization, Power BI is not extensively used, although I'm not privy to every department and their plans. I think it's being used moderately, but could be used more.
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Khumbulani Chikura
Business Intelligence Architect at a tech services company
Yes, SSRS reporting portal cannot run on tablets, iPads and all other mobile devices. But SQL 2016 has been shipped with this capability.
View full review »We have been able to scale it for our needs.
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reviewer1792206
Software developer
The scalability is good.
View full review »Because it's cloud-based, it's very scalable.
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Dung Dinh Tien
Database Expert & BI Developer at a outsourcing company with 10,001+ employees
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PerHemström
Partner at a consultancy with 11-50 employees
We don't have that experience yet. We still don't know how it is to deploy it in larger scales. So, that's my concern, but I haven't seen the scalability issues at our clients.
SA
reviewer1023108
General Manager at a tech services company with 51-200 employees
Although the solution comes with limitations, it is scalable.
View full review »DJ
Deepak Jhaveri
Director at Magnamious Systems Pvt. Ltd.
Power BI is scalable.
View full review »KB
reviewer1311126
Managing Partner at a tech services company with 51-200 employees
The scalability of the product is great. It's on the cloud, which makes it easy to scale.
View full review »AB
reviewer1556970
CEO Gerente General at a tech services company with 51-200 employees
The solution is easily scaled.
Most of our clients are quite large companies. The companies we deal with have thousands of users, however, only a few really use Power BI. Typically only the supervisors and managers use it, not everyone.
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reviewer1551786
Project Consultant at a financial services firm with 501-1,000 employees
It's quite scalable.
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Enrique Pacheco
Managing Director at IDMdev Tech Solutions®
We haven't used it a lot, but it seems good so far. We have only three users. We may include two or three more users to the platform.
View full review »From what I understand, it requires some level of expertise to even understand what it can do, how it can be used in a huge enterprise. That is not so easy for deployment. But for a medium sized organization, yes, it's scalable.
View full review »RH
reviewer1679622
Head of Internal Control at a tech company with 51-200 employees
Microsoft BI is scalable.
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RaphaelBilecki Freitas
Business Intelligence Coordinator Latam at a construction company with 5,001-10,000 employees
When you have to scale up, you must to pay double because you can't just scale up 10 or 15%. You need to double your extra storage, so it's really bad.
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reviewer1752738
BI and data chief consultant at a media company with 11-50 employees
Microsoft BI is scalable.
View full review »NH
reviewer1128801
Director of Analytics and Cognitive Computing at a consultancy with 11-50 employees
The scalability of Microsoft BI is good.
We have approximately 2,000 users using this solution.
View full review »FB
reviewer864999
Project Leader at a tech services company with 1,001-5,000 employees
The solution is scalable. It's not an issue.
We have about ten people using the solution currently.
View full review »KR
reviewer1482141
Strategic Market Development Sr. Manager at a pharma/biotech company with 201-500 employees
We have approximately 50 people using this solution in my organization.
View full review »DK
reviewer1590450
BI technical analyst at a government with 11-50 employees
The scalability is good. We have 20 people in my organization using this solution and plan to increase usage.
View full review »JS
reviewer1398615
Consultant at a training & coaching company with 201-500 employees
It's a scalable solution. We have 10 or 15 users in our organization.
View full review »VC
reviewer938061
Sr. Solution Architect at a computer software company with 5,001-10,000 employees
This solution is scalable.
View full review »ND
reviewer1391733
Business Intelligence Manager at a tech services company with 51-200 employees
Scalability depends on the kind of reports and data we are looking at. It has multiple features for us based on the functionality and the requirement of the customer. It's not limited only to enterprise-specific customers. Rather, It can be used by small, medium, as well as enterprise-based customers.
There is no limitation as such. So it's quite scalable.
I have work two different companies at this time, and as far as I know, there are between 1,500 and 2,000 people who use this product.
View full review »I can't speak about the scalability, but I can speak more towards the interoperability. There is a very rich capacity for sharing its functionality.
View full review »AJ
Amol Jaiswal
Head of Offshore Operations & Solutions at Techcarrot
The scalability at first was not the greatest but it has turned out it can be very good.
View full review »TB
reviewer1535370
Solutions Architect at a tech services company with 11-50 employees
The solution is highly scalable. We have approximately 100 people using the solution in my organization.
View full review »MB
reviewer1536369
Power BI Technical Specialist at a manufacturing company with 1,001-5,000 employees
It is scalable, and there are no issues with its scalability. I would rate it a ten out of ten in terms of scalability. We have around 300 users of this solution.
View full review »SB
reviewer1330689
Client Director, Head of Sales & Marketing, Partner at a tech services company with 11-50 employees
Scalability is very good. It can be pricey to move to the P1 licenses for $5,000 a month for smaller companies, but there are workarounds using A1 to A6 licenses which are cheaper and more flexible in the pricing. We have 50 users in the company.
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business811623
Data analyst at a tech services company with 51-200 employees
The solution is stable.
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reviewer1597356
Certification Division at a manufacturing company with 11-50 employees
Microsoft BI is scalable.
We have more than 50 users in our organization. More of the users are technical people.
View full review »For me, the scalability is sufficient.
View full review »Data set is not big enough to tell.
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Dhammika Weerakoon
Director of technology alliances at a tech services company with 201-500 employees
BI is scalable, but there are some problems with limited online storage and always having to go back to the data warehouse.
View full review »SM
reviewer1586415
Associate Director at a tech services company with 51-200 employees
In my experience the scalability is good. You are able to increase users and add more data.
View full review »IS
reviewer1517100
CEO at a tech services company with 1,001-5,000 employees
It is scalable.
View full review »The scalability is quite good.
View full review »Integrates really well.
View full review »There were scalability issues. It does half the work like any other product in the market.
View full review »The product is scalable.
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reviewer96678
Managing Director at a tech services company with 1-10 employees
The current deployment of the solution is up to 2TB. Do note that it still is not to the “Big Data” level.
View full review »Only when data models were faulty of when the infrastructure was not compliant to MS recommendations.
View full review »No issues encountered.
View full review »There are some problems with huge chunks of data. Some of these can be addressed with appropriate hardware appliances and a lot of tweaking.
View full review »JV
reviewer1501212
Part Owner at a tech services company with 11-50 employees
The scalability is excellent, all our professional consultants use it. Where we deploy in the banking sector, they can have 1,000 licensed users; in smaller companies there can be 50 users.
PA
reviewer1499169
Research & Development Expert at a energy/utilities company with 11-50 employees
We have approximately 10 users. I don't expect that we will expand our usage or continue using this product.
View full review »I have not yet encountered any issues with scalability.
View full review »It’s easy to integrate with the other Microsoft products. However, it is not as easy when connecting to other data sources like SAP ERP.
View full review »We do have issues, but we can solve them ourselves.
View full review »CM
reviewer1514799
Project Business Analyst RPA at a consultancy with 11-50 employees
The solution is scalable. We are able to see the users and the capability from the cloud platform.
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