Summary

In this chapter, we learned how to integrate Microsoft self-service BI tools with Hadoop and Hive to consume data and generate powerful visualizations on the data. With the paradigm shifts in technology, the industry is trending towards an era where Information Technology will be a consumer product. An individual should be able to visualize the insights he needs to an extent from a client side add-in like Power View. These self-service BI tools provide the capability of connecting and talking to a wide variety of data sources seamlessly and create in-memory data models combining the data from these diverse sources for powerful reporting.