![]() To date, Microsoft has lacked a credible mobile (tablet-based) BI solution and has only exposed small pieces of its BI stack in its Office 365 and Windows Azure cloud platforms. ![]() ![]() Microsoft’s recent " Data Explorer" and " GeoFlow" preview BI add-ins for Excel have enhanced the picture further.īut gaps have remained. Add to that the company’s close collaboration with Hortonworks on its HDInsight Hadoop offering, and things have been looking like they are starting to come together. One could thus say that PowerPivot and Power View constitute a sort of BI renaissance at Microsoft. Microsoft introduced PerformancePoint – a rather mediocre dashboarding and analytics product, in 2007 and it wasn’t until last year’s release of Power View that Microsoft got data exploration and visualization right. But Microsoft has added value to its BI stack only in fits and starts.įor example, Microsoft took a nearly five year hiatus in improving its Analysis Services engine, between the release of SQL Server 2005 and that of PowerPivot in 2010. Microsoft’s been in the Business Intelligence (BI) game since the late 1990s, and its products in that space have been genuinely innovative. ![]()
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