Excel is very familiar to many business users, and SSAS + Excel makes a powerful combo.
Currently I am working with a combination of PostgreSQL and Tableau, and find it a nicer environment to work with (coming from a MSSQL shop). I do not have the same automated aggregation engine supplied by SSAS, but Tableau in part makes up for that with visualization tools that require no coding on the UI side. I can focus my efforts on the data layer.
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Excel is very familiar to many business users, and SSAS + Excel makes a powerful combo.
Currently I am working with a combination of PostgreSQL and Tableau, and find it a nicer environment to work with (coming from a MSSQL shop). I do not have the same automated aggregation engine supplied by SSAS, but Tableau in part makes up for that with visualization tools that require no coding on the UI side. I can focus my efforts on the data layer.