Business Intelligence Overview
The Microsoft Business Intelligence (BI) platform delivers on the vision of “BI for everyone” by making BI accessible to more people in the organization through a familiar, collaborative, and managed solution. The platform brings together Microsoft® SQL Server® as the information platform, Microsoft® SharePoint® technology for business collaboration, and Microsoft Office to provide a user experience that business users know and use on a daily basis.
The Microsoft Business Intelligence solution is designed to:
Empower people through familiar tools
Microsoft Business Intelligence (BI) solutions integrate the strengths of our popular business productivity suite, Microsoft® Office. Microsoft Business Intelligence is designed to empower business users through the familiar tools they already know how to use today. End users can create their own reports and analysis and easily share with their colleagues. Meanwhile, Microsoft Business Intelligence is designed with manageability in mind, enabling real-time feedback and significantly improving IT’s overall visibility of potential issues, allowing for a better governed system.
Enhance collaboration & better decision making
People working together drive business results. Through Microsoft® SharePoint® technology, collaboration and discovery are enhanced with new social networking concepts and advanced search capabilities, making it easier for users to find the right information, people, and knowledge when they need it. SharePoint provides dashboards with up-to-the minute information from across the business and transforms reports and analyses into sharable, interactive business views over which business users collaborate to make decisions.
Increase IT efficiency and reducing cost
Microsoft Business Intelligence builds on Microsoft® SQL Server® features and along with Microsoft® SharePoint® and Microsoft® Office, provides a complete information platform. Microsoft Business Intelligence delivers scale to meet the needs of the entire organization and provides IT with flexibility to respond quickly to the evolving needs of the business. Organizations can bring great new experiences and empowerment to their end users on a familiar IT infrastructure that's more manageable and cost effective. SQL Server includes features to help you manage critical data assets company-wide and across diverse systems, helping to ensure integrity of information, and spanning the desktop, datacenter, and cloud.
Explore Capabilities
Dashboards & Scorecards
Microsoft Business Intelligence allows you to create rich, interactive, content-driven dashboards and scorecards. These enable users to access the information they need from a variety of sources combining multiple systems and content into a single browser-based experience. Dashboards display relevant information and enable users to ask and analyze information pertinent to their business. For more information, visit SharePoint Server 2010 Insights.
Collaboration & Search
Collaboration and Search work together the way you want. Connect and engage all of your employees with a flexible collaboration platform and a diverse set of tools that range from Wikis to Workflows to Workspaces - allowing people to work together the way they want. Enable users to find the information they need across unstructured information (blogs, wikis, presentations, documents) and structured information (reports, spreadsheets, analytical systems). Empower users to discover the right people and expertise to make better informed and more agile business decisions. For more information, visit SharePoint Server 2010 Communities.
Reporting & Analysis
Reporting and Analysis drive business insight. Create highly formatted and interactive reports and consolidate information from across all business dimensions for business users to analyze and gain insight. Empower people though new self-service capabilities allowing them to create and share their own business reports and analysis in a centralized, managed, and secure environment, without requiring additional IT support. Use IT dashboards to gain better insight and oversight over what is created to allow for better governing of the system overall. For more information, visit SQL Server 2008 R2 and PowerPivot.
Predictive Analysis & Data Mining
Predictive Analysis and Data Mining let you dig deeper to deduce knowledge. Microsoft data mining solutions empower people to go beyond simple data analysis to identify hidden trends, problems or relationships in the information. Once insights are extracted from patterns, clusters and trends, employees can better identify root causes of problems and predict future outcomes. For more information, visit SQL Server 2008 R2 Data Mining.
Data Warehousing
Data Warehousing and ETL handle your data in a scalable, integrated system. Microsoft data warehousing solutions are designed to help you store, connect and protect your information, making the extraction, transformation, and loading (ETL) processes easier. Because data is aggregated, compressed and stored in a dynamic, scalable, integrated system, organizations can reduce long-term storage requirements and generate reports faster. In this economic climate Microsoft offers the best return on your data warehouse investments. Also available for high levels of scalability is Microsoft® SQL Server® 2008 R2 Parallel Data Warehousing, which delivers high scalability for performance at low cost through massively parallel processing (MPP).
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