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Azure Analysis Services Reviews

9 Reviews

The best business analysis tool for any organization: MicrosoftAzure Analysis Services

Rating: 9 out of 10
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Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Microsoft Azure Analysis Services is among one of the most helpful and advanced business intelligence tool. This solution is offered as a platform as a service. It is packed with great features and functionalities which makes the business more productive and drives the revenue growth as many critical decision are based on the analysis of this service. The solution can be integrated with different types of Azure services which makes our work easier. We use this tool for different type of use cases like providing secure access, analyzing data, getting insights, providing role based access, depth analysis of data and for other data related use cases. The tool has proved it's worth and never disappointed us.

Pros

  • Providing role based access or we can say privilege based on the role to the user if it is integrated with Azure active directory and hence securing the access to sensitive data.
  • We use to run different type of analytics services to get the better result which is hectic if done manually or with human efforts.
  • We also use to collect bulk of data with the help of this tool and run customized test cases for better efficiency of result and better decision making. The result are very crucial and helps in taking big decision.
  • It supports different or we can say heterogeneous database vendors like the Oracle, SQL, and hence make the task easy.

Cons

  • Microsoft Azure Analysis Services is very costly solution and in that price we can get some better business intelligence tool with lot more of capabilities
  • The dashboard or we can say user interface is complex and need time to understand and gain expertise in order for proper working.
  • It needs continuation monitoring which is sometime a big task.
  • Sometime, the tool shows unusual behavior and become unstable, so we need to clear temp files for proper functioning.

Likelihood to Recommend

Microsoft Azure Analysis Services is best tool which is well suited for many type of scenarios. Like if the organization is dealing with a lot of critical data and need some better analysis and insights for that data then tool serves the best. It helps in depth analysis and getting the desired result which helps in making big decision for any organization. We can create role based access for sensitive data hence it is very helpful for security point of view. Helps in making the business more productive and taking decision based on facts. It is less appropriate for scenarios like where data amount is less and the solution is very costly and someone can get a cheaper solution. Also not suited for environment where user directory do not exist because without the help of user directory role could not be created hence proper utilization of this tool will not be possible.
Vetted Review
Azure Analysis Services
1 year of experience

Best Analysis Service

Rating: 9 out of 10
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Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We create powerful analytics solutions with Azure Analysis Services' integration with many other Azure services. The crucial data may be accessed securely and based on roles thanks to its interaction with the Azure Active Directory.

Pros

  • Integrates with many Azure services
  • Provides secure, role-based access to your critical data.

Cons

  • Very least content available on Microsoft docs
  • Need for platform experience or expertise

Likelihood to Recommend

Using well-known data visualization tools like Microsoft Power BI and Microsoft Excel, we can create comprehensive, enterprise-scale analytics solutions with Microsoft Analysis Services. Power BI users and reports can have consistent data thanks to Azure Analysis Services
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Azure Analysis Services
2 years of experience

The Perfect Tool (if you have expertise)

Rating: 10 out of 10
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Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Azure, until now, is the best platform to analyze and transform data I've ever tried. We use Azure to generate insights by importing data from different sources.

Pros

  • You can import data from various sources (i.e. Oracle, Azure SQL...)
  • You can store data models
  • You can elaborate data and create insights
  • Perfect integration with Excel and Power BI

Cons

  • The user interface is a little bit complex if you don't have experience with a similar platform (and it's difficult to find tutorials about it)

Likelihood to Recommend

Azure Analysis Services is not a tool for startups but for enterprises who has to manage complex data. If you have the expertise, it will never disappoint you. Could be costly but is a warranty in terms of performance and security
Vetted Review
Azure Analysis Services
1 year of experience

"Microsoft's best cloud tool, Best for analytics"

Rating: 8 out of 10
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Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Azure Analysis Services support various data sources like Azure SQL server, On-prem SQL, Oracle, etc. We can run models and various analytics services. The burden of maintaining servers and storage is not there as it is supported by Azure and is offered as a Platform as a service.

Pros

  • Use advanced mashup and modeling features to combine data from multiple data sources, define metrics, and secure your data in a single, trusted tabular semantic data model.
  • I have used AAS in establishing the Tabular Semantic model for one of my client's assignments.

Cons

  • There is very least content available on Microsoft docs and the Internet to get through with AAS.
  • i faced lots of connection issues while implementation.
  • The need for serious platform experience or expertise.

Likelihood to Recommend

Microsoft is the pioneer in the software industry, and its new tool Azure takes cloud computing to the next level with ease of use and accessibility. Don't need a VM to have access to SSAS. Azure Analytics Services has changed the name of the game for our analytics. It takes you above and beyond your typical Google Analytics Platform with in-depth analytics and needed metrics for performance goals.

Stunning product with great visuals

Rating: 9 out of 10
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Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We built a connector for this tool for customers to use when they want to get more insight into their consumer behavior or collect statistics related to certain actions in the product itself. Our goal was to build an easy connector that takes information from our software and sends it over to Azure Analysis Services.

Pros

  • Visually pleasing
  • Easy to write queries
  • Easy to read results

Cons

  • Web version is a bit weaker
  • Publishing issues sometimes are a bit too complex

Likelihood to Recommend

It is really good when analyzing services. It works generally as expected and brings the same quality that is expected from every other Azure product. If you are a company or an user that puts a lot of focus on security and focus a lot on the matter that your data does not get leaked, then Azure Analysis Services is the way to move forward.
Vetted Review
Azure Analysis Services
2 years of experience

Worth your investment

Rating: 9 out of 10
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Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We use this product in our organization for Data modeling that is further used for BI tools and excels to get analytics. This data is then used for generating insights and taking actions accordingly.

Pros

  • Analytics
  • Generating insights
  • Provides platform as a service for data models

Cons

  • Interface is challenging for beginners
  • Regular monitoring is needed.

Likelihood to Recommend

Using this product, we can have semantic data models from all the sources whether it is Oracle or MSSQL. We can then connect to these models to convert data to excel, reports and use this as an input to Power BI tools. Also ad hoc analysis can be performed.
Vetted Review
Azure Analysis Services
1 year of experience

Can't Go Wrong With It!

Rating: 10 out of 10
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Use Cases and Deployment Scope

I've used this at two companies recently. It seems like when a truly large amount of data is needing to be stored in a cloud with the best security possible, Azure Analysis Services has been where we turn to. We love the security it gives our organization and how simple it is to use as well. Convenience is what I enjoy most as a user.

Pros

  • Cloud storage
  • Seemless layering
  • Most affordable cloud service we've used so far
  • Very secure

Cons

  • A better interface design would be more visually appealing.

Likelihood to Recommend

We would have many technical issues and glitches with previous similar providers but found that Azure Analysis Services can simply handle our workload and memory better. I remember we lost an account due to cloud issues not fully saving or corrupting some files. Granted, this is rare with any cloud but haven't had that issue with the same load of memory with Azure Analysis Services.
Vetted Review
Azure Analysis Services
1 year of experience

Good Analytics Tool

Rating: 8 out of 10
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Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Great product for Analytics and Visualizations of Data. Easy to scale and very powerful. Can add Role based authorizations to the dashboards as well to limit who views what. Easy to connect to various types of data sources. It also has the option to export dashboards in PDF, etc. Should definitely try it out.

Pros

  • Visualizations
  • Analysis
  • Dashboarding
  • RBAC

Cons

  • Documentation
  • Drill Down & Up Capabilities
  • Ability to connect to external sources of data

Likelihood to Recommend

Azure Analysis Services is well suited when you have uniform data which you want to easily visualize and have a high level overview. it is very easy to use for business users as well who don't have to know anything technical to use this product. You can also connect it to various types of Data Sources.
Vetted Review
Azure Analysis Services
1 year of experience

Cloud Platform to Ease Clouded Thinking

Rating: 9 out of 10
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Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Used by the whole organization to maintain the data in a cloud environment for scalability and moving towards Big Data implementation

Pros

  • Ease of use
  • Easy to integrate with other Microsoft related software
  • Intuitive app

Cons

  • More tooltip instructions

Likelihood to Recommend

Suited for companies that [have] been using Microsoft environment for reporting, maintaining data and would like to migrate to a Cloud environment. Also good for companies that [have] low to mid maturity on the cloud environment usage to get buy-in from the working members. Recommended for companies that would like an alternative to other vendors.
Vetted Review
Azure Analysis Services
1 year of experience