Pivot tables powered by SSAS cubes may be the best self serve analytics tool I've ever seen (where "best" is measured by how much users actually use it). The ability to meet business users where they are is huge for actual adoption, especially compared to something like Looker (which is hot garbage for other reasons as well). Plus, 9 times out of 10 people want to apply additional lightweight transformations/calculations to the data, so nothing beats being in Excel already.
Too bad OSX support is non existent and writing MDX is a pain in the fucking ass.
Too bad OSX support is non existent and writing MDX is a pain in the fucking ass.