Microsoft added muscle to Power BI Report Server (PBRS), its on-premises self-service analytics and enterprise reporting solution, in the latest preview release.

Lots of duplicated effort. Now, I can pull from multiple data sources directly into Excel and manipulate the data there. It even provides easy query builders, both for SQL and MDX, so that you don’t ...

Microsoft already supports business intelligence (BI) as part of Analysis Services, Excel and Power BI for Office 365; complex event processing with StreamInsight; and in-memory columnstore in SQL ...