Argos makes it fairly easy to access the information you want. It can quickly access tables, give you previews, and set up a basic form very quickly.

I like its ease of use the most. It's intuitive so once the SQL is developed, everything else falls into place.

The current integration needs to be done through the  application server and IIS. Once this step fails, nothing happen.

Argos is a great software to create reports, even using different databases. I am able to compile reports from the whole department and read and compare results.

The customer service is the best in the business at Evisions. There are a ton of training videos that help in the transition and ongoing use.

Argos is great at populating student data as well as faculty data for reporting of accreditation, etc.

The best part of Argos is that it is inexpensive. For regular simple reports this is a great software to use at the enterprise level.

Affordable, yet powerful, especially for a small institution. I love the Evisions team - they are incredibly supportive and customer focused.

For some reason, there seemed to be an issue with how to set up different reports in the IT department. I don't know if this was a software issue or user error.

Being able to distribute to many users more user friendly reports, more flexibility in report distribution options and robust functionality.

When our central IT has problem in nightly ODS update.

I was very happy to find how knowledgeable technical support is. There wasn't a question that was'st ansnwered until it was clear.

Excellent solution for all our reporting needs. Easy to use for developers and end users.

This is a much better product than Crystal Reports which we used before.

Argos is very simple to use and easy to learn, it has very rich of features that meet the requirement of my school.

What I like most is that when you print out a data sheet/report on the last page it leaves a trail of how you got to that report.

My school is still cannot use single sign on to the Argo server, it may be something missing from the set up in my school.

I have no real complaints. I think the advanced charting functionality could use some updating, but the chart wizard handles most of my needs.

I also like that you can save the reports in various formats to ensure the data prints out accurately.

In addition, the customer support team is great. Compared to other reporting tools, Argos is definitely worth its value for money.

It's a bit clunky at times, but as we've figured it out Argos can be pretty good at putting together reports and dashboards.

It's a fairly robust reporting tool. It isn't perfect but it is quite useful.

We used Argos to build Dashboard. There are many strong functions we like, such as automatically report through email.

If using a lot of filters, you must code the cascading filter logic yourself, which makes it a pain if you have changes later on (adding or subtracting filters).

The only thing I have a problem with is at how massive the acronyms are. We have to create a cheat sheet to find certain information.

Perfect integration with Microsoft solutions. Ease to share with other partners.

In my opinion, it helps its users create very professional-looking and most importantly dynamic reports with stunning visuals.

In general I'm very pleased with the software and it meets the needs I need - a good opportunity to say thank you.

I have trouble connecting it to an analysis cube and making a website version.

The brightest part of Power BI for us has been the ability to create rich data driven dashboards without having to invest in an entire new platform.

The dashboards and reports are limited in visual design, so they all look the same and quite ugly.

Overall a great solution at a great price. Easy to learn, hard to master, but can deliver business benefit within hours.

This is a powerful software that makes it easy to demonstrate the data analyzing and create a fantastic view for different reports.

The PowerBI experience is excellent, especially I appreciate the integration with Office 365, also the mobile version works very easily.

Power BI is user friendly and helps the companies to present data in a beautiful way.

Some find it too complicated to use and are intimidated by the format. I have not been able to find training for management on how to use a report that someone else with PowerBI skills created.

One feature I like so much is the ability to import data from multiple sources. Also, the fact that there is a mobile version of the software makes it a wonderful choice.

It has lot of learning curve and has very limited support available on internet. Configuration is a hell.

I have always had a dislike of the methodology and training materials Microsoft subscribes to.

Power BI has been a welcome addition to our tech stack. The ability to create visual reports and quickly export them to add to presentations is a great little addition.

Amazing product, very inexpensive, great support, fantastic visualizations, great data transformation.

It’s the best for the presentation and to make the presentation more interesting.

Overall, it's a great program and solves our needs in visualizing data. With most Microsoft products, we'll be excited with future updates.

I love Power BI's ability to translate complex data into simple to understand visualizations that is helpful for making business decisions.

It is also excellent all the integrations you can do with systems, the cloud, etc. The data transformation module I find wonderful how fast it is, even with large amounts of information.

Additionally, there are times that my computer struggles to keep up with the program causing it to become non-responsive or crash.

Having switched from excel recently, Microsoft Power BI has been of great help. Having good visuals for data is a plus to us as an organization for they help do comparisons at a glance.

The best feature that Power BI has to deliver, in my view, is its visuals. Charts and diagrams are also more visually appealing, which helps me communicate my messages to my friends and colleagues.

It has a lot of powerful features and potentials in showing data and making nice graphs/tables to show the facts/numbers that you want. It works way better and is way more efficient than Excel.

Great user friendly interface, which can be overwhelming at first, but is well worth getting to grips with. There is plenty of online and community support for Power BI.

Excellent customer support. Using the power bi web dashboard is a great way to gain the visibility that you need to make this Business intelligence  valuable.

The big advantage is that the program is easy to use. Microsoft has developed some great tutorials that you can download on their site.

I like this software because I have the chance to create amazing graphics and those are dynamic.

The visuals are great and integrates excellently with other Microsoft applications. It is also very easy to deploy and work with.

This product is a great cost solution and is only getting more powerful as time goes on.

Rearranging dashboards can be a bit frustrating, and it’s web-add on EasyBI has very limiting features.

Having knowledge of Excel, it made it much easier to adopt and when I ran into trouble there was great help in the Power BI online community.

It is almost like Excel but with great visuals and scalable dashboards for quick preview into useful information.

The graphics are really nice and it makes building a report the such an easy task I loved this.

The negative thing about Power BI is that you need a lot of effort to edit the data that you have imported as a table.

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Argos is an on-premise business intelligence (BI) solution for higher education institutions. Key features include ad hoc report creation, report filtering, report exporting, connections with multiple data sources and object and data libraries.


Argos enables users to generate reports and data visualizations and automatically distribute reports to key users according to a predetermined schedule. Report execution can be specified by both date and time, and users can "burst" reports into sub-reports to be delivered separately which can be used in letter generation, budget reporting and departmental reporting.


Argos includes a data dictionary which provides field descriptions, as well as common table and view joins. Users can save and reuse frequently-needed objects and controls, as well as store templates, styles, and objects such as drop-down controls, list boxes, images, charts, and OLAP data cubes.


Argos is able to integrate with SQL-compliant databases such as Oracle, MS SQL, DB2, Informix, Access, Excel, MySQL, and more.



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Faculty/Staff Management

Admissions Management

Financial Aid Management

Student Portal

Charting

OLAP

Ad hoc Reporting

Financial Management

Attendance Management

Attendance Tracking

Student Information/Records

Scheduled/Automated Reports

Collaboration Tools

Scheduling

Data Import/Export

Assessment Management

Facility Management

Online Payments

Dashboard Creation

Real Time Data

Curriculum Management

Data Connectors

Fundraising Management

Role-Based Permissions

Budgeting/Forecasting

Online Calendar

Reporting & Statistics

Data Visualization

Multiple Data Sources

Independent/Private

Customizable Templates

Real Time Reporting

Customizable Branding

Reporting/Analytics

Higher Education

Alumni Management

Customizable Dashboard

Summary Reports

Drag & Drop

Third-Party Integrations

Financial Reporting

Search/Filter

Windows 8

Windows 10

Request a demo and pricing information via the Evisions website.

Email/Help Desk

Phone Support

Chat

Self-Employed

2-10

11-50

51-200

201-500

501-1000

1000+

Argos

In Person

Live Online

Webinars

Documentation

Microsoft Power BI is a web-based business analytics and data visualization platform that is suitable for businesses of all sizes. It monitors important organizational data and also from all apps used by organizations. Microsoft Power BI provides tools to quickly analyze, transform and visualize data, and also share reports.

Microsoft Power BI offers SQL Server Analysis Services through which users can quickly build reusable models using the overall data. The software enables users to integrate their apps, so as to deliver reports along with real-time dashboards.

Microsoft Power BI also provides self-service access to major third-party cloud sources such as GitHub, Zendesk, Marketo and Salesforce.

Microsoft Power BI is available both in free and paid (Pro) versions. The free version is not limited by any time period; however, data of only 1GB per user can be analyzed. Otherwise, it costs $10 per user per month for 10GB of storage.



Real-Time Analytics

Integration into Third Party Applications

High Volume Processing

Customizable Reports

Data Synchronization

Natural Language Search

Geographic Maps

Self Service Data Preparation

Data Quality Control

Mobile Access

Data Cleansing

Data Discovery

Ad hoc Query

Real-Time Updates

Visual Analytics

Activity Dashboard

Interactive Reports

Data Blending

Dashboard

Data Transformation

Ad hoc Analysis

Self-service Analytics

Data Management

KPI Monitoring

Single Page View

AI/Machine Learning

Windows 7

Windows Vista

Windows XP

Mac OS

Web browser (OS agnostic)

Windows 2000

Power BI Pro: $9.99 per user, per month
Power BI Premium: $20 Per user/month and $4,995 Per capacity/month

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