Personal BI
What Is Personal BI?
If business intelligence (BI) is going to fulfill its promise of enabling better decision making across your organization, it must be available to help all employees as they solve critical business issues daily.
Personal BI is based on people's need for immediate information. It is content created "for me, by me"—such as an Excel spreadsheet, an e-mail, a PowerPoint deck, or a Word document—and it's usually related, even if loosely, to team and corporate goals.
Every Individual Makes an Impact
So how do you equip individuals to access and incorporate relevant data, turn their hunches into insights, and turn their insights into decisions that impact the business? Put BI in everyone's hands.
You'll enable critical decision making that is local, relevant, and immediate. And increasing the velocity of your decision making will help you drive productivity and improve business performance.
It helps to have a friendly interface: Microsoft Excel.
Excel is the most commonly used analysis tool for individual productivity, and it's the key interface people use to analyze corporate BI data. Excel helps decision makers move the decision-making process forward by putting together the centralized, secure data from a corporate BI system and the disparate data they receive daily.
SQL Server is the scalable, secure platform that unifies data. It provides individual information workers access to trusted data that is integrated, aggregated, and easily available through familiar applications like Excel. SQL Server provides the structure for trusted decision making.
How It All Comes Together
Personal, team, and organizational BI feed into one another. A personal insight may have ramifications within your team—helping to inform your decision making and affecting your organization's goals. By providing individuals at all levels of your organization with the tools and data they need in a familiar, flexible environment, you ensure the flow of insights that can advance team and organization goals.
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