The people responsible for architecting the "solutions" for a business should be about the business' data primarily and about the tools/technology secondarily. (I was a statistical data analyst before I became a database programmer.) Use the minimum technology to report the data to the data owners. In many situations, this means Excel is better than adequate and the business has no need for the expense of SSAS or Sharepoint technology or technologists-- even though technology vendors have a need to sell their wares.

The managers who are my customers for Excel "reports" are old hands at "Data - Filter - AutoFilter" and now they use the same Excel they used to grow the business to filter the result sets delivered to Excel by the views.

As the SQL Server DBA **and SQL Server sysadmin** I spend my time on data quality, data integrity, data security-- and on fixing "architecture" devised by network and Windows admins who seem to have some real blind spots about business requirements.