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Discover all the answers to your questions about MS4BI and learn how to maximize your analyses and decisions with an innovative BI solution.

✔ Simple, ✔ Agile, ✔ Powerful

FAQ MS4BI

Discover MS4BI: Revolutionize Your Business Intelligence

MS4BI is not just a BI tool: it’s an agile, powerful, and accessible solution designed to optimize your analyses and decisions.

1. No Code with MS4Designer

Go beyond static reports. Create interactive web applications that allow real-time updates of your insights and adapt your strategies directly from the user interface.

2. Low Code with MS4Script

Develop faster with MS4Script. Generate reports, dashboards, and applications in just a few lines of low-code. Over 900 examples guide you for a quick start.

3. Accessibility for Everyone

Whether you are an expert or a beginner, MS4BI adapts to everyone. Integrated guides, tutorials, and an intuitive interface enable easy adoption, while advanced users benefit from extensive customization.

4. Advanced Graphic Integration

MS4BI supports 8 graphic libraries. Create pie charts, Gantt charts, timelines, bar charts, and more to represent your data with clarity and impact.

5. Real-Time Insights

React quickly with up-to-date real-time data. MS4BI ensures relevant analyses for informed decisions.

6. Cost Reduction

With a lightweight architecture and MS4Script, reduce your operational costs without compromising the quality of your analyses.

7. Agile Deployment

Deploy your solutions quickly with MS4BI. Achieve tangible results in a matter of days with optimized infrastructure costs and reduced per-PC overhead.

8. What Does MS4BI Mean?

MS4BI stands for "Mandragore System 4GL Business Intelligence." A solution designed to simplify data collection, analysis, and management of your insights.

9. Practical Use Cases

Visualize your sales by region with pie charts, track your HR projects with Gantt charts, or create dashboards to optimize your marketing campaigns.

🆚 What sets MS4BI Web Applications apart

MS4BI

  • ✔ Inline data update
  • ✔ Advanced Web customization (CSS, HTML, JS)
  • ✔ Integrated actions: buttons, menus, forms
  • ✔ Native binding to Excel, SQLite, ODBC, etc.
  • ✔ No Code / Low Code using MS4Script
  • ✔ 100% web execution with built-in server

Power BI

  • ❌ No native inline update
  • ❌ Limited web customization
  • ❌ Complex actions via PowerApps
  • ✔ SQL/ODBC connections but no write access to Excel
  • ✔ User-friendly graphical interface
  • ✔ Uses DAX, Power Query, or R / Python for advanced scenarios
  • ❌ Requires installation + license

Tableau

  • ❌ No inline update
  • ❌ Very limited web customization
  • ❌ Little built-in application logic
  • ✔ Connection to many databases
  • ✔ Excellent data visualization
  • ✔ Uses Tableau Calculations, LOD Expressions, or R / Python for experts
  • ❌ Requires Tableau Server or license

This comparison table highlights real-world functional differences.

🆚 Objective comparison with other BI tools

MS4BI

  • ✅ SQL & Web Query
  • ✅ Native Excel query
  • ✅ Built-in dynamic filters
  • ✅ Automatic web interface
  • ✅ Native inline editing

Power BI

  • ❌ No direct web support
  • ✔ SQL possible (via data sources)
  • ❌ Complex data transformations
  • ❌ No direct Excel query
  • ❌ No inline editing

Tableau

  • ✔ SQL supported
  • ❌ No easy Excel querying
  • ❌ No direct web customization
  • ❌ No inline editing

This comparison table highlights real-world functional differences.

🆚 Custom Menus: MS4BI vs Other BI Tools

MS4BI

  • ✔ Fully customizable menus
  • ✔ Logical management with MS4Script
  • ✔ CSS/JS/HTML customization
  • ✔ Actions, conditions, submenus
  • ✔ Designed for web applications

Power BI

  • ❌ No native menu engine
  • ✔ Navigation via buttons/bookmarks
  • ❌ No complex application logic
  • ❌ Limited visual customization
  • ❌ No dynamic submenus

Tableau

  • ❌ No real application menus
  • ✔ Navigation between dashboards
  • ❌ No native conditional logic
  • ❌ Limited customization
  • ❌ No native support for hierarchical menus

This comparison table highlights real-world functional differences.

🆚 Excel + BI: MS4BI vs Other Tools

MS4BI

  • ✔ Direct SQL queries on Excel
  • ✔ Web publication in 3 lines of code
  • ✔ Collaboration and updates via Web
  • ✔ Native Excel chart integration
  • ✔ Multi-sheet, multi-file import
  • ✔ Native CSV, Excel, JSON export

Power BI

  • ✔ Excel connection possible
  • ❌ No direct SQL query support
  • ❌ No native Web publishing
  • ✔ Excel chart support (import only)
  • ❌ No Web update of source Excel
  • ✔ Limited export (static CSV, Excel)

Tableau

  • ✔ Excel connection via import
  • ❌ No SQL querying on Excel
  • ❌ No direct Web publishing of Excel
  • ❌ No Web editing of Excel
  • ✔ Visualization export supported
  • ❌ No native Excel sheet integration

This comparison table highlights real-world functional differences.

💡 Why MS4BI Stands Out with Excel

🔍 And What About Other Tools?

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MS4BI vs Power BI vs Tableau: User Interface Creation

MS4BI

  • ✔ Widgets, buttons, forms, badges, cards...
  • ✔ Ultra-simplified MS4Script syntax
  • ✔ Native HTML/CSS/PHP support (BEGIN_SW...END_SW)
  • ✔ Seamless Bootstrap & FontAwesome compatibility
  • ✔ Automatic Responsive Web Design
  • ✔ Advanced customization without heavy coding

Power BI

  • ✔ Configurable visual themes and styles
  • ✔ Buttons and bookmarks for navigation
  • ❌ No free HTML/CSS customization
  • ❌ No native code injection
  • ❌ Design limited to Power BI capabilities
  • ✔ Partial responsiveness depending on template

Tableau

  • ✔ Elegant dashboards
  • ✔ Visualization actions (filter, navigation)
  • ❌ No fully free interface
  • ❌ No direct native HTML/CSS insertion
  • ✔ Flexible layout but no pure widgets
  • ❌ Limited fine integration without external API

This comparison table highlights real-world functional differences.

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