As a Microsoft Solutions Partner, Alistar offers a full range of BI tools, ensuring the right solution for every information need.
With Power BI, everyone in your organization can easily gain insights through powerful dashboards, while Azure, as a smart cloud platform, ensures integration, management, and optimal use of your data.
Microsoft’s Azure cloud platform offers countless possibilities for managing your data and infrastructure in one central location. With Azure Data Factory, Azure SQL Database, and Azure Analysis Services, you can take advantage of the power and flexibility of cloud services without the administrative burden. You can purchase BI features as a service and pay based on usage, or opt for your own virtual machine with SQL Server on Azure—where you can even bring your own license.
Power BI is Microsoft's user-friendly tool for dashboards, visualizations, and data analysis. Even without technical knowledge, you can uncover insights from a variety of data sources or work with existing models, such as those in our QuickStart solutions.
Available as a free Desktop, Pro, or Premium license. Premium includes Power BI Report Builder for paginated reports in the cloud, while Power BI Report Server enables on-premises reporting.
The SQL Server database forms the foundation for countless applications and is Microsoft’s premier data platform. In addition to data storage, SQL Server offers a complete suite of Business Intelligence tools for reporting and advanced analytics. That is why Alistar uses SQL Server as the foundation for Data Automation—our solution for quickly setting up a data warehouse, especially when data from multiple sources needs to be consolidated.
SQL Server Analysis Services (SSAS) is a component of SQL Server that provides lightning-fast access to large amounts of data. You can efficiently navigate through data in both multidimensional mode (traditional OLAP cubes) and tabular mode (in-memory analytics). With Data Tools, you can build reporting models in Analysis Services that can be used in Microsoft BI tools such as Power BI and Report Builder, as well as in solutions from other vendors.
SQL Server Reporting Services (SSRS) is part of SQL Server and is often already present in your environment. It’s ideal for complex, richly formatted standard reports alongside Power BI. With Report Builder, you can design reports down to the finest detail and publish them through the SSRS portal. In Power BI Premium, you can use Power BI Report Builder to share the same paginated reports in the cloud via PowerBI.com.
SQL Server Integration Services (SSIS) is part of SQL Server and provides a powerful, workflow-based solution for data integration, migration, and transformation (ETL). Thanks to its seamless integration with the SQL Server database engine, SSIS serves as a reliable foundation for any data architecture.
By asking these questions, you can figure out which BI tool is right for your business. Want to learn more? Check out all 10 questions in our blog post.
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Alistar is a Microsoft Power BI Certified partner and has a team of experienced business consultants, data analysts, and Power BI experts who are happy to guide you through the entire process. Our goal is to make your BI journey as smooth as possible.
Sander Honig
Commercial Manager, Data & BI – Netherlands
