Enhancing customer experience, increasing return on investment, driving innovation, and ultimately improvising the overall business impact is the primary objective of leading organizations in today’s environment. Azure Analysis Services streamlines operations and can be implemented in a quick manner without giving more importance to infrastructure management. Data can be visualized with your integrated data visualization tool and resources can be scaled up to match the requirement of your business. It’s a fully managed PaaS (Platform-as-a-Service) and the business owners can deploy, govern, test, manage and deliver BI solutions with ease and confidence. It provides enterprise-grade cloud data models, and this provides users with an agile and easier way to perform ad-hoc analysis using powerful tools like Excel and Power BI.
Top features of Microsoft Azure Analysis Services that boost organizations’ performance and productivity are as follows:
To Create and Deploy Azure Analysis Services in an efficient and quick way
Azure Resource Manager can be used to create and deploy Microsoft Azure Analysis Services in a few seconds and with backup restore, you can move existing models. With the power of the cloud, organizations benefit from the flexibility, scaling up, and management benefits of Azure Analysis Services. Also, users can pay for what they use providing the fact that an Azure cloud platform is certainly a cost-efficient option to the traditional way and reaps huge benefits.
Transform Multiple Complex Data into a Single Version
Cloud facilitates combining and aggregating data from different sources into a trusted & one BI semantic model which makes the end users use it with ease. Going the extra mile, Azure Analysis Services backed up by the simple structure eliminates the intermediate by connecting data analytics directly to the end-users, and it can be accessed from anywhere across the world.
Improves Speed which enhances the Organization’s Performance
In today’s highly fluid business scenario, information becomes obsolete within minutes meaning that we are missing out on worthy and lucrative opportunities on the essence of Speed. With the advent of Microsoft Azure Analysis Services, business professionals keep track of the emerging trends related to their real-time business. Azure Analysis Services reduces time-to-insights on complex and large datasets, and it improvises response time, meaning your BI solution meets the pace of the business users. Using DirectQuery, real-time operational data can be connected.
Secured Access Anytime Anywhere
One of the powerful traits of cloud services is Security. On the same front, Azure Analysis Services host the latest features such as dynamic data masking, row-level security, and transparent data encryption. Authorized users can access data models with role-based security and Azure Active Directory from anywhere in the world. With full-time availability, users can access vital information when they require it. For instance, Connect Health monitors the performance and users’ log-In activity at Active directory on-premises infrastructure, which helps to track and identify suspicious activities. Azure Analysis service also infuses flexibility in the security domain and certain new access policies require multi-factor authentication for critical security-sensitive applications.
Time to delivery is accelerated
BI solutions are released in a highly predictable and secure way. With the aid of robust applications lifestyle management, deployment, and delivery of BI solutions can be quicker.For instance, Connect Health monitors the performance and users’ log-In activity at Active directory on-premises infrastructure, which helps to track and identify suspicious activities. Azure Analysis service also infuses flexibility in the security domain and certain new access policies require multi-factor authentication for critical security-sensitive applications.
Familiar Environment
Azure Analysis Services is appropriate and compatible with a series of databases, such as Azure SQL, SQL Server, Azure SQL Data Warehouse, Database, Teradata, and Oracle. Visual Studio’s suite of integrated development environments facilitates the seamless integration of existing SQL servers with the Cloud. The technologies cited above have been there for years and have had a big impact.
Overall, businesses that leverage Microsoft Azure Analysis Services gain huge benefits that turn data into actionable insightful analysis. As it offers a cloud-hosted, data analytics platform, & PaaS, massive amounts of data are queried for ad-hoc analysis. It is easier to get deployed, ingest data from multiple sources and build data models. Highly interactive visualizations can be gained with out-of-box connectors for both Power BI as well as for Excel, which makes the data insights simple and quick.