I’ve been speaking to a lot of clients lately about the visualization capabilities of the Microsoft BI platform and want to clarify a point of confusion. When building an enterprise analytics platform you will be faced with several decisions around architecture as well as delivery. The architectural options will be vetted by your IT department, but in large part they will be driven by how you want to deliver and consume information in your organization. Typically there will be a balance between ‘traditional’ BI delivery and ‘self-service’ BI delivery.
What’s the difference? Traditional BI delivery comes in the form of reports and dashboards that are built by your IT department with tools such as SSRS or PerformancePoint. Both are solid tools with a lot of functionality. In contrast, most organizations are looking for ways to reduce their dependency on IT-built reports and therefore need a technology that enables their business users to be self-sufficient. This comes in the form of Excel with PowerPivot and PowerView.
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