Microsoft Viewpoint
Big Data, Deep Insights
Unlock actionable insights from all your structured and unstructured data with the Microsoft Big Data Solution. Analyze Hadoop data with familiar tools, and enrich your information by connecting to the world’s data and services.
Expand the Availability in Business Intelligence
Often, the complex and costly nature of implementing and learning business intelligence (BI) tools limits their adoption across an organization. Microsoft Business Intelligence solutions help you expand the availability of BI through familiar and intuitive business productivity tools like Microsoft Excel. This helps decision-makers at all levels make effective, strategic, operational, and tactical decisions. With broadly implemented BI, your operations manager can get better visibility into operational costs, your customer-support rep can identify opportunities to cross-sell or upsell, and your sales director can identify which deals will help grow the business.
Self-Service Business Intelligence
In order to make business-critical decisions, employees need rapid access to real-time data. But that data may be spread across disparate tools in multiple departments in a variety of formats, ranging from unstructured spreadsheet data to structured CRM data. Microsoft BI solutions provide immediate access to this range of information as they present it on easy-to-comprehend, interactive dashboards that allow your people to work productively with personalized, relevant views of information at the right level of detail. Using powerful, yet intuitive Excel-based tools such as PowerPivot and PowerView, any business user can analyze millions of rows of data, and create engagingly-visual reporting experiences that are presentation ready at all times.
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Customer Evidence
Tricubes
“We implemented a big system using Microsoft technologies in a little more than two months. We could not have implemented it so quickly if we had gone with another cloud provider.”
S. Vishnu Shankar
Vice President for Software Development, Tricubes
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Hy-Vee
"The SQL Server 2008 R2 Parallel Data Warehouse solution helps us recognize changes in our customers’ buying habits. We can then respond to those changes before our competitors do, and that gives us a huge business advantage."
Tom Settle
Assistant Vice President, Data Warehousing, Hy-Vee
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Banco Central do Brasil
"We saw a 30 percent improvement in data warehouse queries using SQL Server 2012 with the xVelocity feature.... that performance will help our financial analysts get risk data to customers faster."
José Cláudio Mendonça de Freitas
Banco Central do Brasil