Transforming your business through business intelligence - with Microsoft modern BI & adv. analytics
Updated: Aug 9, 2021
This is part 4 of a 4 part business intelligence (Microsoft Power BI) series.
For the 10th consecutive year, Gartner has positioned Microsoft as a leader in its Magic Quadrant for Business Intelligence and Analytics Platforms, recognizing Microsoft’s completeness of vision as well as its ability to execute.
According to Gartner Microsoft's customer reference scores place it in the top quartile for ease of use, with 14% of customers citing this as the main buying criterion. Power BI's reference scores also place it in the top quartile for visual appeal. Winning customers within the first few minutes has been part of Microsoft's "five by five" strategy — five seconds to sign up and five minutes to "wow" the customer. There are a number of features within the product that contribute to its overall ease of use, including its primarily cloud deployment model. Microsoft was early to the industry in terms of a natural language/search interface with Microsoft Q&A (Question and Answers), which allows users to create a visualization using search terms.
Gartner went on to say - Microsoft scored the highest customer reference scores in this Magic Quadrant for achievement of business benefits. In particular, in terms of making better information and insights available to more users. The high achievement of this business benefit is enhanced by both the low price and cloud deployment. User enablement and the availability of skilled resources are other elements of the overall customer experience for which Microsoft is evaluated as above average. The vendor has a strong community of partners, resellers and individual users; and this community extends the product with prebuilt apps, visualizations and video tutorials, in addition to the content provided directly by Microsoft.
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Retail
The Hershey Company: https://customers.microsoft.com/en-us/story/hershey-office365
Mars Drinks: https://customers.microsoft.com/en-us/story/connecting-beverage-machines-to-the-cloud-to-power-productivity
Ziosk: https://customers.microsoft.com/en-US/story/what-game-will-you-want-to-go-with-that-burger-ziosk-m
G&J Pepsi-Cola Bottlers, Inc.: https://customers.microsoft.com/en-us/story/gj-pepsi-bubbles-up-good-ideas-by-equipping-field-workers-with-secure-managed-mobile-devices
Manufacturing
Rockwell Automation: https://customers.microsoft.com/Pages/CustomerStory.aspx?recid=18356
Ecolab: https://customers.microsoft.com/Pages/CustomerStory.aspx?recid=26527
Rolls-Royce: https://customers.microsoft.com/en-us/story/rollsroycestory
Kennametal: https://customers.microsoft.com/en-us/story/engineering-the-next-innovation-in-material-science-wi
Johnson Controls: https://customers.microsoft.com/en-us/story/connecting-buildings-to-the-cloud-for-a-greener-planet
Renault Sport: https://customers.microsoft.com/en-us/story/renault-sport-formula-one-team-discrete-manufacturing
Government & Education
Carnegie Mellon University/OSIsoft: https://customers.microsoft.com/en-us/story/carnegie-mellon-sees-a-way-to-cut-energy-use-by-20-per
Metropolitan School District of Lawrence Township: https://customers.microsoft.com/en-us/story/transformin-lives-by-improving-access-to-student-data
City of Kansas City: https://blogs.office.com/2016/10/04/city-of-kansas-city-empowers-employees-provides-better-services-with-office-365/
Glasgow City Council: https://customers.microsoft.com/en-us/story/how-glasgow-is-reinventing-itself-with-data
Volunteer Service Abroad (VSA) - New Zealand: https://customers.microsoft.com/en-us/story/volunteer-service-abroad-improves-business-efficiency
Healthcare
Elizabeth Glaser Pediatric AIDS Foundation: http://customers.microsoft.com/en-us/story/in-the-fight-against-pediatric-aids-data-helps-save-li
Helse Sør-Øst RHF: https://customers.microsoft.com/en-us/story/hospital-analyzes-healthcare-practices-in-hours-instea
Hôpital Montfort: https://customers.microsoft.com/en-us/story/hopital-montfort-builds-a-case-for-better-healthcare-with-power-bi
Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center: https://customers.microsoft.com/en-us/story/strengthening-data-security-and-creating-more-time-for
Aerocrine: https://customers.microsoft.com/en-us/story/deeper-data-better-health
Financial Services
Tangerine: https://customers.microsoft.com/Pages/CustomerStory.aspx?recid=14594
Metrobank https://customers.microsoft.com/Pages/CustomerStory.aspx?recid=8173.
Flandes: https://customers.microsoft.com/en-us/story/flanders-investment-and-trade-mise-sur-le-travail-mobi
HBOR: https://customers.microsoft.com/en-us/story/with-power-bi-implementation-hbor-now-has-fast-and-acc
Professional Services
WASH Multifamily Laundry Systems: https://customers.microsoft.com/Pages/CustomerStory.aspx?recid=11768
Infosys: https://customers.microsoft.com/en-us/story/infosys-professional-services-dynamics-crm
IMS Health: https://customers.microsoft.com/Pages/CustomerStory.aspx?recid=20136
DocuSign: https://customers.microsoft.com/en-us/story/docusign-writes-its-name-on-a-new-market
Codit: https://customers.microsoft.com/Pages/CustomerStory.aspx?recid=26340
Financial Fabric: https://customers.microsoft.com/en-US/story/transforming-hedge-fund-management-with-new-business-models-and-data-platforms-on-azure
The Microsoft BI platform offers the flexibility that customers need to transition to Modern BI in their terms.
This 4 part series overview shows that Microsoft has been delivering BI capabilities to help customers model, analyze, and deliver business insights, which can be consumed by business users on mobile devices, on the web or embedded in apps. Most capabilities have been available on-premises with SQL Server Analysis Services and Reporting Services as well as Power BI Desktop and Excel.
A recent key addition to the Power BI portfolio is Power BI Report Server. Power BI Report Server offers self-service BI and enterprise reporting in one solution, being the perfect bridge to move to the cloud at your pace.
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