Microsoft's PowerBI platform is growing on me for an end-user UI. You're definitely right that none of the enterprise solutions are completely "there." It sti

Microsoft's PowerBI platform is growing on me for an end-user UI. You're definitely right that none of the enterprise solutions are completely "there." It still seems to me that "Export to Excel" is the strongest BI feature of any tool. Pivot tables are ubiquitous. Throw any OLAP cube up on a server and host a workbook on SharePoint and you're probably 60% of the way to a good BI ecosystem. ^^ This is in terms of data vis and presentation ^^ The backend work still dominates. Fair disclosure: my company is a Microsoft Partner, so my primary exposure and all of my work is in that ecosystem. For geek-cred, I run Arch and OpenBSD for all my personal systems.