Business Intelligence in Office and SQL Server

Bring the power of data to every user in your organization

To fully benefit from the power of data, organizations need to make it easy for all users to get access to the right data, at the right time, so they can make more informed decisions, while also giving IT the tools to manage data access, quality and compliance. User expectations, however, are changing, and they are demanding self-service access to more types of data than ever before. A BI solution isn’t complete if it can’t pull in external data from a marketplace, or unstructured data from Hadoop, and easily combine it with existing enterprise data that may live on premises or in the cloud. Customers can build these modern BI solutions on-premises using SQL Server, SharePoint and Excel or simply subscribe to Power BI for Office 365 and let Microsoft manage the infrastructure for them, so they can focus on unlocking new insights.

Learn about Power BI for Office 365 Download the SQL Server 2014 trial How to set up and configure SharePoint Server 2013 and SQL Server BI

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Data services firm uses Microsoft BI and Hadoop to boost insight into big data

Klout wanted to give consumers, brands, and partners faster, more detailed insight into hundreds of terabytes of social-network data. It also wanted to boost efficiency. To do so, Klout deployed a business intelligence solution based on Microsoft SQL Server 2012 Enterprise and Apache Hadoop.

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Benefits

Empower users to discover, analyze and visualize data with powerful self-service BI in Excel
Enable collaboration and sharing of reports and data in a managed and secure environment with SharePoint or SharePoint Online

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Capabilities

Self-service

Excel provides new self-service capabilities and empowers users with data discovery, analysis, and visual exploration. Uncover hidden insights and facilitate ease of collaboration and access from anywhere through HTML5 and mobile applications.

Dashboards

SharePoint Server provides a full set of rich dashboard and scorecard capabilities including advanced filtering, guided navigation, interactive analytics, and visualizations.

Reporting

SQL Server Reporting Services is a comprehensive, highly scalable solution providing operational reporting for pixel-perfect printing and browser-based viewing, as well as ad-hoc data exploration and visualization.

Analysis

SQL Server Analysis Services empowers you to build comprehensive, enterprise-scale analytic solutions that leverage in-memory technology and provide interactive exploration of aggregated data.