--- title: Azure Analysis Services Reviews meta\_title: 'Azure Analysis Services Reviews 2026: Details, Pricing, & Features | G2' meta\_description: Filter 157 reviews by the users' company size, role or industry to find out how Azure Analysis Services works for a business like yours. aggregate\_rating: rating\_value: 4.4 review\_count: 157 scale: '5' date\_modified: '2026-08-09' parent\_category: name: Analytics Tools & Software url: https://www.g2.com/categories/analytics-tools-software --- # Azure Analysis Services Reviews & Product Details Azure Analysis Services integrates with many Azure services enabling you to build sophisticated analytics solutions.Its integration with Azure Active Directory provides secure, role-based access to your critical data. * * * Seller [Microsoft](https://www.g2.com/sellers/microsoft) Discussions [Azure Analysis Services Community](https://www.g2.com/products/azure-analysis-services/discuss) Solution Type All-in-One Show More ## Value at a Glance Averages based on real user reviews. ### Time to Implement 3 months ### Return on Investment 17 months [ View More Pricing Information ](https://www.g2.com/products/azure-analysis-services/pricing) ## Top-Rated Alternatives [ ![AWS Trusted Advisor](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "AWS Trusted Advisor") AWS Trusted Advisor 4.4/5(24) ](https://www.g2.com/products/aws-trusted-advisor/reviews) [ ![Google API Analytics](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Google API Analytics") Google API Analytics 4/5(13) ](https://www.g2.com/products/google-api-analytics/reviews) [ ![Google Cloud Video Intelligence API](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Google Cloud Video Intelligence API") Google Cloud Video Intelligence API 4/5(17) ](https://www.g2.com/products/google-cloud-video-intelligence-api/reviews) [ View All Alternatives ](https://www.g2.com/products/azure-analysis-services/competitors/alternatives) ## User Insights Average based on 157 real user reviews. Implementation Time 3 months Perceived Cost $$$$$ [Log in to unlock pricing and user insights](/login) ![adrien j.](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "adrien j.") AJ adrien j. Freelance Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) 3/17/2026 "Paas and semantic data analysis." 5/5 What do you like best about Azure Analysis Services? The best thing about it is it's help with Paas and ability to use semantic data analysis. It is a great way to combine data from multiple sources, the direct query is also a good use. Tbeing able to query data at high speed is great. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about Azure Analysis Services? Sometimes the input of data can be tedious. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is Azure Analysis Services solving and how is that benefiting you? It helps by giving a system to analyze data. The ability to combine different data sets. The speed of querying data once you input what you need. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More 3/24/2026 Validated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite ![Mustafa G.](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Mustafa G.") MG Mustafa G. Archiving officer Education Management Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) 4/27/2023 "Azure Analysis Services : Powerful Cloud-Based Data Modeling for BI" 4/5 What do you like best about Azure Analysis Services? The coolest thing approximately Purplish blue Investigation Administrations is that it lets you construct effective information models within the cloud. No more stressing almost servers, it fair scales up and down as you wish it, and everything is secure with Microsoft backing it up. Think of it as super simple to utilize building squares for your trade bits of knowledge! Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about Azure Analysis Services? The coolest highlight of Sky blue Investigation Administrations is that it's like enchantment building pieces for your commerce information within the cloud. No servers to mess with, fair develop it as you need! Downside? Can be pricier than a few less difficult devices and takes a small learning to utilize. But hello, in case you're genuine almost information bits of knowledge, it's worth it! Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is Azure Analysis Services solving and how is that benefiting you? Envision you have got formula boxes scattered around your kitchen, each with bits and pieces from distinctive suppers. It's a mess! Purplish blue Investigation Administrations acts like a super-organizer, taking all those formulas (your information) and putting them in one clean, easy-to-use box. This makes it way speedier to discover what you wish (bits of knowledge from your information) and even lets you share the box effortlessly (collaborate on information examination). There's a bit of a learning bend, and it might fetched a small more than a straightforward box, but the benefits are clear! Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More 11/18/2024 Validated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite ![Samrat D.](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Samrat D.") SD Samrat D. Data Engineering Specialist Enterprise (\> 1000 emp.) 12/13/2023 "AAS is always a great tool atleast better than SSAS in every way" 4.5/5 What do you like best about Azure Analysis Services? Support of HD Insights, and because of this it can handle large datasets without any problem which can be pretty difficult with SSAS. Also, azure is always less expensive than SSAS as this will only charge when we are actually using it. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about Azure Analysis Services? There is not much i dislike about AAS. I find it much better than other analysis tool. But i find it a little bit difficult to use it compare to SSAS. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is Azure Analysis Services solving and how is that benefiting you? We developer power bi reports for our client and recently we have moved out data in cloud and the dataset is really big approx 500 million data to process so azure helped us alot on this. So we decomissioned ssas and our client is only investing on Azure. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Current UserValidated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite ![Mohan N.](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Mohan N.") MN Mohan N. Programming Analyst - AIA Data. (Azure Data Engineer) Enterprise (\> 1000 emp.) 12/9/2023 "Best azure service for analytics workload at scale." 4/5 What do you like best about Azure Analysis Services? Azure analytics service (AAS) provide the compute engine to process large amount of data and do large scale data modelling, relationships and calculations. Previously for analytics, we had a limit in PowerBI to store data for premium users and it was hard to do complex data modelling using DBMS normalisations and denormalizations as PBI will take more time to process to change even simple data type. So for big data workload, specially if you are using streaming data, live data to generate reports the to improve the dynamic capabilities of PBI reports AAS is good. Also you can easily integrate this with other azure services like ADF, Databricks to do your ETL process. Also, AAS support the ETL as well and we can group the relationship in hierarchy in folder like one to one, many to one etc. Also auto detect saves lot of time. If you have large number of users for report sharing and if they need the visuals, dashboards at real time for complex data AAS helps to achieve that. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about Azure Analysis Services? Well, for actual analytics we need to connect with powerbi in order to make visuals, tiles, reports, KPIs as AAS doens't support end report analytics . It adds additional layer of complexity and can't easily see the dynamic change we doing in tabular data model in dashboard. We need jump everytime to PBI for that. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is Azure Analysis Services solving and how is that benefiting you? We are using it for HealthCare data to for large scale workload we are getting from ADF And databricks to do the data modelling at report level. It support many connectors and we are also using CSV and tsv file getting from AWS S3 to use in AAS. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Validated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite ![Chris G.](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Chris G.") CG Chris G. SME - Data Business Analyst Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) 12/7/2023 "Azure Analysis services Review" 4/5 What do you like best about Azure Analysis Services? It's very secure in first place. Scalability is easy task to bring up or bring down based on business needs. It can be integrated with multiple microsoft tools that aids analysis services. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about Azure Analysis Services? Eventhough it got hosts of features that considered as pros but it need expertise and experience to handle things that needs to be done in this platforms Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is Azure Analysis Services solving and how is that benefiting you? I work with complete full cycle data migration projects from on-prem to cloud where we are catergorizing the data based on products, business and this service is helpful to us a lot. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Current UserValidated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite ![Verified User in Consulting](/assets/icons/anonymous-avatar-purple-4ae1032bdb50ee5682003170c8184aee790d25958bd397abbd384ba52c596a7b.svg "Verified User in Consulting") IC Verified User in Consulting Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) 12/6/2023 "My Experience working with Microsoft Azure TechStacks" 4/5 What do you like best about Azure Analysis Services? Well as you might already know Azure is more dependable for its scalability,performance & security which can be more helpful while processing large amounts of bigdata from different sources and file types.Also we can integrate AAS with other microsoft tools which will make it easy for the organisations who are already ising Microsoft related tools to be integrated with it Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about Azure Analysis Services? Well,obviously since its a cloud service the cost would be higher than other local mainframe services since for every instances we use it takes alot of credits out of each instances, also there will be a slight learning curve for people who are new to azure services...also one of the main issues we face is its performance tuning which is kind of subpar and we spend so much time in tuning it to get our desired response Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is Azure Analysis Services solving and how is that benefiting you? Well it is helping in building complex datamodelings which helps me in deriving meaningful insights from the data through aggregation also it is quite useful for datas requiring real-time analytics in which it can process quickly...and it has some tight security authentication features to restrict access to unwanted personnals Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Validated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite DP dipesh P. Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) 9/20/2023 "One of the most useful tools I have ever used" 4.5/5 What do you like best about Azure Analysis Services? First of all, its integration with other azure services is seamless which makes it perfect to use secondly it security which is unmatched. Thirdly the user interface is so friendly even a not tech person can understand it. One more feature which i like most is it works with all the datasets irrespective of the length of data set. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about Azure Analysis Services? I personally did not find any issue with the Azure services, however users have to commit to the azure ecosystem which could be limitations to the several companies sepcially the companies using mix cloud providers. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is Azure Analysis Services solving and how is that benefiting you? All major problems related to the data analysis and reporting are resolved with the services. Specially data analysis of complex datasets could be easily resolve as it provides feature to create structured data models, The problem of integrating the tool was also resolved by the services as it can integrated with the other services such as Power BI and Azure SQL data warehouse. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Validated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite PA Prakhar A. Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) 9/19/2023 "One of the best I have ever used" 4.5/5 What do you like best about Azure Analysis Services? The most helpful of Azure Analysis Services are as follows:- -Scalability-Azure Analytics Services can handle large volumes of data and can scale up or down based on your organization's needs. You can provision the necessary resources to ensure optimal performance. -Integration-It seamlessly integrates with other Azure services and tools, such as Power BI, Azure Data Factory, and Azure SQL, Data Warehouse, making it easy to create end to end data analytics solutions. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about Azure Analysis Services? Dislikes:- -Lack of Direct Query for certain data sources:- While Azure Analysis Services supports DirectQuery for some data sources, it may not be available for all, potentially requiring data duplication or additional data integration steps. -Services Outages:- Like any cloud service, Azure Analysis Services can experience occasional service outages or disruptions, which can impact business operation if not properly mitigated Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is Azure Analysis Services solving and how is that benefiting you? - Complex Data Analysis- Many organizations have large and complex datasets scattered across multiple sources. Azure Analysis Services helps simplify the process of aggregating, transforming, and analyzing this data to extract meaningful insights. - Data Integration- Integrating data from diverse sources with different formats can be challenging. Azure Analysis services allows user to create a unified data model that combines data from on-premises sources, cloud databases, and more. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Validated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite ![Emilio A.](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Emilio A.") EA Emilio A. Software Engineer Information Technology and Services Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) 8/23/2023 "Professional data analysis in the cloud" 4.5/5 What do you like best about Azure Analysis Services? While Azure Analysis Services offers an intuitive interface, it requires some technical knowledge to operate. It is recommended that users have some experience in data analysis to take full advantage of all the features of this tool, but in general it is a tool with great business benefits Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about Azure Analysis Services? I like it because it is a powerful tool that allows for efficient and scalable data analysis in the cloud. This platform allows you to create analytical models, perform queries and generate data visualizations quickly and accurately, in addition this platform integrates natively with other Microsoft data analysis tools, such as Power BI and Excel, which facilitates the generation of interactive reports and visualizations, also allowing to automatically adjust the resources according to the user's needs, which allows analysis of large volumes of data without worrying about processing capacity. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is Azure Analysis Services solving and how is that benefiting you? It provides us with a high level of security to protect sensitive company data, allowing us to apply access policies and data encryption to guarantee the confidentiality and privacy of information. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Validated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite RL rahul l. Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) 1/8/2024 "azure analysis for new age" 5/5 What do you like best about Azure Analysis Services? easy to use and implement ,easy to integrate with other microsft product ,best in class product support by microsoft team ,multiple number of feature availble to use ,used number of times by various user means great user frequancy Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about Azure Analysis Services? cost needs to be reduced ,can be copled with many other third part BI tools Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is Azure Analysis Services solving and how is that benefiting you? its helping us to greatly review busines intelligence to make it world class very fast ,efficent to use to many multiple people,proper pipline integration is easy to use Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Validated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite ## Questions about Azure Analysis Services? Ask real users or explore answers from the community Get practical answers, real workflows, and honest pros and cons from the G2 community or share your insights. 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