You can learn a lot of things quickly using resources like ChatGPT or Microsoft's own solutions, which are very helpful within the Microsoft ecosystem.
Data integration is very useful in Power BI. It lets me collect data from many sources. For example, I can get data from Oracle databases and SQL Server databases at the same time.
Power BI, once made available, can connect to various data sources, irrespective of the application, whether it be HR or business applications. The bank has many applications, but all eventually need to generate reports for tracking, distribution, or problem-finding based on analysis. Power BI was made available as part of the productivity suite to all businesses, which can connect to their applications and provide the reports and analysis they require.
The easy way to create reports and dashboards, the integration available with Microsot products like MS Excel could bring up a new experience to evaluate data and transform in information quickly.
Power BI stands out because it provides considerable flexibility in creating reports, dashboards, and various types of analytics to meet those dynamic requirements. It is lightweight and easy to use with good support.
BI Developer at a tech services company with 51-200 employees
Real User
2023-05-19T14:04:39Z
May 19, 2023
They find Power BI's data pull mechanism to be sufficient and cost-effective, especially considering the stability it provides. In comparison with other solutions, Power BI stands out as a fantastic choice. Therefore, I would definitely recommend sticking with the Pro license.
Director of Systems of the TCESP at a government with 501-1,000 employees
Real User
2022-03-03T09:25:52Z
Mar 3, 2022
The most valuable features in Microsoft BI are the analysis using the feature drag and drop function. It's very easy to load and use different data sources.
Data Engineer at a financial services firm with 1,001-5,000 employees
Real User
Top 10
2022-02-28T18:26:00Z
Feb 28, 2022
What's most valuable in this tool is that it gives its users detailed error messages. It's a very stable data analytics tool, and it offers good scalability.
Power BI has strong support from Microsoft. If you need help, they answer promptly. There are also several discussion groups where you can get information, like the product roadmap and any new things coming up.
Being able to transfer data with the Power Query feature is great for teaching with about one to two hundred rows of data. I am also able to see the relationship between multiple tables and create various sheets and dashboards.
Business Intelligence Developer at lagozon technologies private limited
Real User
2022-02-16T15:03:32Z
Feb 16, 2022
When we are introducing Microsoft BI to our clients, if they're familiar with Excel, the transition phase will be much easier for them. They can easily switch from Microsoft Excel to Microsoft BI. The core foundation or the base technology is the same in both tools. There are a few limitations in Microsoft Excel, and this is where Microsoft BI comes in.
The one feature most of our customers like is data visualization. When we were doing BI directly from SQL, most users found it challenging to create their own reports. Power BI has self-serve analytics that the end-users can do themselves. On most projects, people are primarily using data visualization and self-serve analytics.
Head of business transformation and digitalization at Apple
MSP
2022-02-09T14:45:17Z
Feb 9, 2022
Considering that it's Microsoft, it can be integrated with the Power Platform, which is also Microsoft-based, like SharePoint, Power apps, Power Automate, and Power BI, which is the most user-friendly.
We encourage end users to use Power BI because it's quite easy for them to interact with the menus and the navigation bar. Even for ordinary users, they can create their own dashboard using Power BI.
The good part of it is that you can do whatever you want with it when it comes to building BI. In terms of languages, it supports Python, and it also natively supports R.
IT Enterprise Architect - Partnership at a consultancy with 51-200 employees
Real User
2022-01-25T10:30:22Z
Jan 25, 2022
There is a lot of variety in Power BI. In particular, the visuals are quite rich and the feature set has been growing rapidly in the last two years. Possibly the best part for me is that there are a lot of ways to connect with data sources.
Head of Global Services Business Performance Management at Nokia Corporation
Real User
2022-01-13T14:20:38Z
Jan 13, 2022
The most valuable features of Microsoft BI are the variety of possibilities to connect to various data sources. The visualizations are easily done, have useful rollover functions, and there are continuous updates being made to the system. You can benefit from the various improvements.
Associate Data Analyst at a financial services firm with 10,001+ employees
MSP
2022-01-12T16:27:05Z
Jan 12, 2022
Previously we used Excel, which took a long time - two or three weeks - to bring the data into a uniform format, whereas BI can do the same job in a day.
System Engineer at a financial services firm with 10,001+ employees
Real User
2021-12-27T19:55:11Z
Dec 27, 2021
Power BI is more powerful than other tools because it is new for us. Each new version has more capabilities, and we're expecting AI and ML features in the next version.
I find Power BI's reporting feature the most valuable. The solution has improved a lot. There are new features getting added day by day. In the past, they didn't even have the printing feature, but now they have it.
Graduate Engineer at a transportation company with 5,001-10,000 employees
Real User
2021-12-08T08:56:15Z
Dec 8, 2021
One of the most valuable features of Power BI is the ease of use. It is comfortable and there is not a steep learning curve for this solution. If you have some idea of the data and basic visualization ideas, you can use this solution comfortably.
Microsoft B's beneficial features are that it is a Microsoft product and it is well known by the staff here in the company. It suited the available skills.
MCSE at a financial services firm with 501-1,000 employees
Real User
2021-11-26T18:56:01Z
Nov 26, 2021
I like all the tools in Microsoft BI because they all have different purposes. There are a lot of people using Microsoft BI, and everybody is using it. The users have adapted well to the technology.
The most valuable feature is that it's easy to use. It's very useful for non-engineers and it is the ultimate solution for providing information and insights. Power BI is the best visualization tool I have ever worked with.
Its connectivity with other Office applications, mostly with Excel, and the ability to deploy it very easily are the most valuable features. It comes sort of bundled with the cloud, so you don't need to set up a server and a standalone infrastructure. So, getting into the system or building something that you can deploy is very easy and very cheap. With other systems, you need to have a server, and you need to have a license for the server. The initial setup is very costly.
IT Expert in Project Finance in Government of Serbia at ICTPro
Real User
Top 5
2021-10-12T17:26:00Z
Oct 12, 2021
Many of my customers already use Microsoft products like Office 365, so I often propose Microsoft Power BI because it integrates well with all the standard Microsoft business tools. And it's the quickest tool to implement and start using daily.
Analyst Operations at a government with 1-10 employees
Real User
2021-10-11T17:23:53Z
Oct 11, 2021
In the process of using data there is the Extract, Transform and Load (ETL). For extracting we are using another software, for transforming we are using our own coding in C#, and then we use Microsoft BI for loading the information. Microsoft BI displays information very well.
Program Director Education Technology & Data Services at a government with 5,001-10,000 employees
Real User
2021-09-24T23:07:00Z
Sep 24, 2021
I like the fact that Power BI lets me use Excel data. At least 90% of my state data is in Excel spreadsheets. Having the ability to just attach a spreadsheet as a data source is very, very important. It's also good for training and teaching. Sometimes you don't always have access to a live production database, so having a spreadsheet with sample data is always nice.
What I like about Power BI is how fast you are able to create dashboards and how fast you are able to fetch the data. You can connect to the database or data source, and then you can design your dashboards very easily.
Manager Technical Architect at Legato Health Technologies
Real User
2021-09-13T17:00:00Z
Sep 13, 2021
It works well with SSAS, which we use to generate all different kinds of trending and analytics reports. Sometimes we use Power Query and DAX to build some aggregations on the Power BI side as well.
BI Expert at Business Intelligence | DW Consultant
Real User
Top 10
2021-09-10T23:40:00Z
Sep 10, 2021
You don't need much support with Microsoft Power BI because it has such a large base of users who can answer your questions on their forums. There are also many video tutorials and webinars available online that offer solutions to whatever problems you may have.
Microsoft BI was very helpful for me because I had a huge variety of connections. It is very convenient to build reports, even if somebody has no experience using BI tools or data visualizations. Additionally, the performance is very good when generating reports.
What I have found valuable about Microsoft BI is its performance and ease of use. The interface is very simple and it is accessible to everyone. If someone is new to this type of solution it is straightforward to understand.
It is easy to use. It has got a desktop where people can develop their own dashboards. Basically, we have figured out how to connect finance contracts and all programs for the government agency. So, they can see everything in a dashboard. So, it is very easy to use from a technical standpoint of view.
Project Business Analyst RPA at a consultancy with 11-50 employees
Real User
2021-08-18T16:03:21Z
Aug 18, 2021
The most useful features are the ability to connect different databases to Microsoft BI and explore them. Once the database information has been extracted, you have the ability to construct indicators and dashboards from the information.
Management Design Civil Structure at Malaysia Airports Holdings Bhd
Real User
Top 10
2021-07-29T17:39:02Z
Jul 29, 2021
The visuals are great and make everything look very professional. We can change the look and feel or manipulate the data according to our requirements. It's extremely flexible.
Engagement Professional at a consultancy with 51-200 employees
Real User
2021-07-11T12:41:09Z
Jul 11, 2021
The best feature for me is Power Query. I know that probably sounds strange, but you can't do too much with visuals and reports if the backend stuff is horribly dirty and just bad. But for me, that is absolutely fantastic. I can load the data and do the transformation and be able to load it in a useful way. There are tons of connections, which is absolutely fantastic as well. It's been fairly easy, and it's intuitive.
Data Scientist at a tech vendor with 201-500 employees
Real User
2021-07-07T03:07:59Z
Jul 7, 2021
The most valuable features are the easy creation of reports, dashboards, and the ability to perform analysis. It is important for us to create reports because we have some operations during certain hours and we can use this tool to track the information.
I liked that Microsoft Power BI handles a large amount of data. I can handle hundreds of rows from Postgres in a few minutes. I also like how it detects the relationship between the tables without explicitly saying that. It just detects the relationship automatically. That made it easier to work with the data.
Senior Analyst at a tech services company with 10,001+ employees
Real User
2021-05-19T22:14:12Z
May 19, 2021
Its visualizations and dashboards are most valuable. Power BI is great in terms of visualizations and dashboards. The reports that we previously had were not very nice in terms of visualization. It also provides the ability to play with the data.
It integrates better with other Microsoft products. It is very easy to use and has very powerful visualizations. It has also got a lot of development going on.
Responsable Industrie 4.0 at a engineering company with 10,001+ employees
Real User
2021-05-07T09:02:43Z
May 7, 2021
I like data modeling. You can connect with your database, which is quite useful for me. It is a good tool if you have a large amount of data and you want to gather different data and interconnect it.
The Power Query functionality is quite an interesting feature. If you have a query in Excel, you can also copy your query and run it in Power BI.
Its dashboard is also very nice and not complicated. You don't need to be a developer to be able to use it. I am not an IT guy, and it is quite easy to use for somebody who is not an IT person.
Vice President & Head at a tech services company with 501-1,000 employees
Real User
2021-05-05T08:31:29Z
May 5, 2021
It gives you an edge if you are on the Microsoft platform. If you have been using Microsoft products for a long time or if you have the Microsoft infrastructure, this is the right tool for you. It has seamless integration with Microsoft SQL Server and other sources, and you get the best of the three things (SSIS, SSAS, and SSRS) in one suite.
Microsoft Power BI is a powerful tool for data analysis and visualization. This tool stands out for its ability to merge and analyze data from various sources. Widely adopted across different industries and departments, Power BI is instrumental in creating visually appealing dashboards and generating insightful business intelligence reports. Its intuitive interface, robust visualization capabilities, and seamless integration with other Microsoft applications empower users to...
You can learn a lot of things quickly using resources like ChatGPT or Microsoft's own solutions, which are very helpful within the Microsoft ecosystem.
Data integration is very useful in Power BI. It lets me collect data from many sources. For example, I can get data from Oracle databases and SQL Server databases at the same time.
Power BI, once made available, can connect to various data sources, irrespective of the application, whether it be HR or business applications. The bank has many applications, but all eventually need to generate reports for tracking, distribution, or problem-finding based on analysis. Power BI was made available as part of the productivity suite to all businesses, which can connect to their applications and provide the reports and analysis they require.
Scalability-wise, I rate the solution a nine out of ten.
It has greatly improved our reporting capabilities.
The most valuable feature of Power BI is its ability to provide customized visualizations and insights tailored to specific business needs.
The sharing features are vital, especially the ability to share and test different shared dashboards.
Reporting is the best thing about Power BI. And it could help improve decision-making in many ways.
Power BI is flexible and easier to use compared to tools.
The most valuable feature of Microsoft Power BI is the drill-through feature that takes you to a details page the users want to see.
It offers a lot of information and is very flexible and interactive.
1. Its price! The PowerBI Pro goes for only 10$ a month/user
2. Its simplicity for designing reports and dashboards
3. Its rich (and evolving all the time) community Add-ons
4. Its complete Software As A Service concept. Simple deployment.
The easy way to create reports and dashboards, the integration available with Microsot products like MS Excel could bring up a new experience to evaluate data and transform in information quickly.
Power BI stands out because it provides considerable flexibility in creating reports, dashboards, and various types of analytics to meet those dynamic requirements. It is lightweight and easy to use with good support.
The most valuable feature of the solution is that it is an easy-to-use tool.
One of the most valuable aspects of this tool is its ease of use and the ability to easily share information with others.
They find Power BI's data pull mechanism to be sufficient and cost-effective, especially considering the stability it provides. In comparison with other solutions, Power BI stands out as a fantastic choice. Therefore, I would definitely recommend sticking with the Pro license.
It provides good visibility.
The most valuable features of Microsoft BI are its intuitiveness and ease to use.
The most interesting feature of Microsoft Power BI is that it's very user-friendly.
The most valuable features in Microsoft BI are the analysis using the feature drag and drop function. It's very easy to load and use different data sources.
What's most valuable in this tool is that it gives its users detailed error messages. It's a very stable data analytics tool, and it offers good scalability.
The stability is great and continues to get better and better.
The stability is good.
It's the analytic engine in terms of the interface on the Power BI environment, as opposed to pivot tables, and it's a mobile solution.
It is very good, and it supports the Microsoft ecosystem, including Excel, etc.
Implementation is very quick and the solution is very user-friendly.
Power BI has strong support from Microsoft. If you need help, they answer promptly. There are also several discussion groups where you can get information, like the product roadmap and any new things coming up.
I like having the ability to connect Excel files as data inputs.
Being able to transfer data with the Power Query feature is great for teaching with about one to two hundred rows of data. I am also able to see the relationship between multiple tables and create various sheets and dashboards.
We have found the product very stable and reliable.
Microsoft BI's most valuable features are the user interface, which is easy to use and light.
When we are introducing Microsoft BI to our clients, if they're familiar with Excel, the transition phase will be much easier for them. They can easily switch from Microsoft Excel to Microsoft BI. The core foundation or the base technology is the same in both tools. There are a few limitations in Microsoft Excel, and this is where Microsoft BI comes in.
Management reporting solution that's very stable and scalable.
Microsoft BI's most valuable feature is flexibility.
Good reporting and data analysis tool that's user-friendly, easy to deploy, stable, and scalable.
The one feature most of our customers like is data visualization. When we were doing BI directly from SQL, most users found it challenging to create their own reports. Power BI has self-serve analytics that the end-users can do themselves. On most projects, people are primarily using data visualization and self-serve analytics.
Considering that it's Microsoft, it can be integrated with the Power Platform, which is also Microsoft-based, like SharePoint, Power apps, Power Automate, and Power BI, which is the most user-friendly.
The user experience is easy. Users get familiar with it quickly.
There is also a chart store where we can download charts, which is extremely useful.
It is really flexible. The charts and reports are really nice. You have the flexibility of self-service.
The solution is very easy to use.
The initial setup is simple to do.
We encourage end users to use Power BI because it's quite easy for them to interact with the menus and the navigation bar. Even for ordinary users, they can create their own dashboard using Power BI.
The initial setup is relatively simple.
The flexibility of the program is valuable. We are able to add other information to the reporting information and expand upon it.
The good part of it is that you can do whatever you want with it when it comes to building BI. In terms of languages, it supports Python, and it also natively supports R.
There is a lot of variety in Power BI. In particular, the visuals are quite rich and the feature set has been growing rapidly in the last two years. Possibly the best part for me is that there are a lot of ways to connect with data sources.
We have found that the reporting and publishing are great.
It is more user-friendly compared to SSRS.
The data can be accessed from anywhere.
The dashboards of Microsoft BI are easy to use.
Everything that's in M Query and DAX is the heart of Power BI because with these tools you can make up for a lot of other missing features.
In my opinion, Microsoft BI is a low-cost solution, and it could be an interesting solution for a tourism company.
It's a very easy-to-use solution.
Like all Microsoft products, it is very easy to set up initially.
The most valuable features of Microsoft BI are the variety of possibilities to connect to various data sources. The visualizations are easily done, have useful rollover functions, and there are continuous updates being made to the system. You can benefit from the various improvements.
Previously we used Excel, which took a long time - two or three weeks - to bring the data into a uniform format, whereas BI can do the same job in a day.
The solution is not that difficult to install, although this will vary with the experience of the person responsible for its installation.
ou can pull reports, visualize them in real-time, and connect them to a variety of other data sources.
Power BI allows you to create user defined charts which is really useful.
The solution is stable.
It's a powerful platform.
The solution is easy to use and charts can be built quickly with the tools.
My understanding is that the initial setup is pretty easy.
The amount of customization that you can do is good, and it's relatively straightforward to do.
I like how the Query Editor lets me manipulate the data, and the available visuals are good. You can do everything using the UI.
There are some great automation elements in the product.
Power BI is more powerful than other tools because it is new for us. Each new version has more capabilities, and we're expecting AI and ML features in the next version.
I like that I can use Power BI to upload data. That is very important for me. The visualization is also convenient and easy to use.
I've seen no issues with BI's stability.
This product has a lot of features and most of them are user-friendly.
It's a straightforward setup.
I find Power BI's reporting feature the most valuable. The solution has improved a lot. There are new features getting added day by day. In the past, they didn't even have the printing feature, but now they have it.
We find the solution offers good stability.
The stability is good.
The most valuable feature is definitely the visual aspect and the DAX capabilities to virtually do anything.
Microsoft BI is easy to use and to design. I found Microsoft BI a lot easier than Tableau.
It is useful for bringing visualization to data. It calculates counts, ratios, etc.
The most valuable feature of Microsoft BI is its visualization and its ease of use.
It gives us, the ability to do a lot of analysis quickly, similar to ad hoc analysis.
The virtualization of Microsoft BI is very good.
It's pretty easy to set up the product.
One of the most valuable features of Power BI is the ease of use. It is comfortable and there is not a steep learning curve for this solution. If you have some idea of the data and basic visualization ideas, you can use this solution comfortably.
Microsoft B's beneficial features are that it is a Microsoft product and it is well known by the staff here in the company. It suited the available skills.
I like all the tools in Microsoft BI because they all have different purposes. There are a lot of people using Microsoft BI, and everybody is using it. The users have adapted well to the technology.
The scalability overall has been quite good.
The most valuable feature is that it's easy to use. It's very useful for non-engineers and it is the ultimate solution for providing information and insights. Power BI is the best visualization tool I have ever worked with.
There is a feature in Microsoft BI that allows JSON data to SQL on the dashboards effectively and quickly.
My favorite feature is the power query editor, where it can do the data transformations.
The initial setup is easy.
The solution overall is very useful. The reports that are generated and the reporting functionality management are beneficial.
It seems stable. I haven't heard of any difficulties from my clients that utilize Power BI.
Its ease of use is most valuable.
Its connectivity with other Office applications, mostly with Excel, and the ability to deploy it very easily are the most valuable features. It comes sort of bundled with the cloud, so you don't need to set up a server and a standalone infrastructure. So, getting into the system or building something that you can deploy is very easy and very cheap. With other systems, you need to have a server, and you need to have a license for the server. The initial setup is very costly.
I like Microsoft BI's drill-down feature and its overall ease of use.
The solution is quite scalable.
The most valuable feature would be the abundance of connectors. It is also easy to use.
Microsoft BI's dashboards are helpful.
Microsoft BI is better than most solutions we have. It's pretty easy to conduct analysis with it.
The solution is stable with reasonable performance.
Many of my customers already use Microsoft products like Office 365, so I often propose Microsoft Power BI because it integrates well with all the standard Microsoft business tools. And it's the quickest tool to implement and start using daily.
In the process of using data there is the Extract, Transform and Load (ETL). For extracting we are using another software, for transforming we are using our own coding in C#, and then we use Microsoft BI for loading the information. Microsoft BI displays information very well.
The solution is easy to set up and implement.
We have found the solution to be stable.
The solution is very intuitive, you do not need to have too much programming knowledge to use it. Advanced Excel users can use it very easily.
I like the fact that Power BI lets me use Excel data. At least 90% of my state data is in Excel spreadsheets. Having the ability to just attach a spreadsheet as a data source is very, very important. It's also good for training and teaching. Sometimes you don't always have access to a live production database, so having a spreadsheet with sample data is always nice.
What I like about Power BI is how fast you are able to create dashboards and how fast you are able to fetch the data. You can connect to the database or data source, and then you can design your dashboards very easily.
It works well with SSAS, which we use to generate all different kinds of trending and analytics reports. Sometimes we use Power Query and DAX to build some aggregations on the Power BI side as well.
Easy to use and the visualization is valuable.
You don't need much support with Microsoft Power BI because it has such a large base of users who can answer your questions on their forums. There are also many video tutorials and webinars available online that offer solutions to whatever problems you may have.
Microsoft BI was very helpful for me because I had a huge variety of connections. It is very convenient to build reports, even if somebody has no experience using BI tools or data visualizations. Additionally, the performance is very good when generating reports.
The solution integrates with other Microsoft solutions very well.
The solution has a good toggling feature.
We have found the product to be scalable.
Its visualization capabilities are pretty good. It is very easy to use. You can easily make your dashboard.
What I have found valuable about Microsoft BI is its performance and ease of use. The interface is very simple and it is accessible to everyone. If someone is new to this type of solution it is straightforward to understand.
The reports are easy to create.
It is easy to use. It has got a desktop where people can develop their own dashboards. Basically, we have figured out how to connect finance contracts and all programs for the government agency. So, they can see everything in a dashboard. So, it is very easy to use from a technical standpoint of view.
It is a little easier at buildings charts and graphs than Tableau.
The most useful features are the ability to connect different databases to Microsoft BI and explore them. Once the database information has been extracted, you have the ability to construct indicators and dashboards from the information.
The visualization part and its inclusion in a cloud-based application are valuable features.
As it was my first time using Power BI, I can say that it was fairly easy to learn, especially if you already know BI-type tools.
It is quite easy to use and it helps me to achieve the projects that I've been assigned.
The visuals are great and make everything look very professional. We can change the look and feel or manipulate the data according to our requirements. It's extremely flexible.
The solution is easy to use and flexible.
The product is stable.
The best feature for me is Power Query. I know that probably sounds strange, but you can't do too much with visuals and reports if the backend stuff is horribly dirty and just bad. But for me, that is absolutely fantastic. I can load the data and do the transformation and be able to load it in a useful way. There are tons of connections, which is absolutely fantastic as well. It's been fairly easy, and it's intuitive.
The product is easy to use and simple to navigate.
The initial setup is straightforward.
I have found the most valuable feature of this solution is the Natural Language tool.
The visualization and reporting are the most valuable features of this solution.
The most valuable features are the easy creation of reports, dashboards, and the ability to perform analysis. It is important for us to create reports because we have some operations during certain hours and we can use this tool to track the information.
Connectivity, installation, and configuration are pretty fast and seamless compared to Cognos.
Technical support has been great.
The interface is very easy to use.
In contrast to what we were using before I think that Power BI has given us more extensive results.
Microsoft BI is scalable.
I liked that Microsoft Power BI handles a large amount of data. I can handle hundreds of rows from Postgres in a few minutes. I also like how it detects the relationship between the tables without explicitly saying that. It just detects the relationship automatically. That made it easier to work with the data.
In my experience the scalability is good. You are able to increase users and add more data.
The scalability is good. We have 20 people in my organization using this solution and plan to increase usage.
It's quite flexible, and it's easy to create reports using this system. It is very graphic and very user friendly.
The most valuable feature of this solution is real-time report tracking.
The interface is very fluid.
Its visualizations and dashboards are most valuable. Power BI is great in terms of visualizations and dashboards. The reports that we previously had were not very nice in terms of visualization. It also provides the ability to play with the data.
Provides good data flow related to the container and control flow.
Technical support is quite responsive.
It integrates better with other Microsoft products. It is very easy to use and has very powerful visualizations. It has also got a lot of development going on.
I like data modeling. You can connect with your database, which is quite useful for me. It is a good tool if you have a large amount of data and you want to gather different data and interconnect it.
The Power Query functionality is quite an interesting feature. If you have a query in Excel, you can also copy your query and run it in Power BI.
Its dashboard is also very nice and not complicated. You don't need to be a developer to be able to use it. I am not an IT guy, and it is quite easy to use for somebody who is not an IT person.
I have found the best features to be the dashboard creation, graphs, charts, and presentation bar graphs.
It gives you an edge if you are on the Microsoft platform. If you have been using Microsoft products for a long time or if you have the Microsoft infrastructure, this is the right tool for you. It has seamless integration with Microsoft SQL Server and other sources, and you get the best of the three things (SSIS, SSAS, and SSRS) in one suite.