Business Intelligence for Government

As the diversity, scale, and constraints of your mission increase, your agency may find it more challenging to organize and distribute the information you need to make decisions, improve performance, and achieve your agency goals. You need consistent capabilities for accessing, analyzing, and sharing data throughout (and beyond) your organization—without removing and replacing existing systems with risky new implementations.

	Related link

	Microsoft Brings Business Intelligence to the Masses With SharePoint

	Webcasts


	Thinking Bigger About Business Intelligence (Level 200) (8 MB)

	Case studies

	Government Agency Speeds Calculation by 25 Times with Custom Database Solution
	The Illinois Department of Transportation Saves Lives with Microsoft Business Intelligence Solution

	Downloads

	Microsoft Business Intelligence for Government Portable Document Format, 280 KB
	Monitoring and Analytics: Bringing Business Intelligence to SharePoint Portable Document Format, 325 KB

	Products and technologies

	Microsoft SQL Server 2008
	The 2007 Microsoft Office system

	Get Adobe Acrobat Reader

Share this on:
	Digg	Facebook
	del.icio.us	StumbleUpon

Microsoft business intelligence (BI) solutions build on the technologies you already own, delivering a cost-effective way to help you:

Unify information access across the enterprise.
Collect and present information in its most useful format.
Accommodate varying needs at every level of the organization.
Deliver new applications for information management and sharing.

You can use Microsoft business intelligence solutions to develop a complete, end-to-end platform for assessing the challenges you face, tracking performance, documenting results, and defending your decisions. With a Microsoft BI solution in place, you can more easily find information, understand it, and use it to affect outcomes—all with essential capabilities for:

Data consolidation: Supports enterprise-wide stores for data populated and synchronized from disparate sources to help you maximize analytical and reporting performance without affecting original source applications; integrate, analyze, and generate reports on data from multiple sources, often in real time or near-real time; and create intuitive, user-oriented labels to replace long or cryptic data table names.
Data integration: Performs even complex data integration at high speeds across large volumes. Helps you to ensure consistency for data spread across databases, operational systems, and external sources; reduce performance lags as data is acquired, combined, and made available; and cleanse and transform data according to policies.
Solution development: Helps you build and deliver BI applications rapidly with a programming environment, utilities, wizards, and tools that you can use to build in best practices, increase productivity, enhance control, and reduce overhead.
Reporting and analysis: Provides a comprehensive, server-based reporting solution that helps you build dynamic managed, interactive, and embedded reports, which you can deliver on demand or push to authorized recipients. Supports customized reporting to help users satisfy their own information needs, reducing the burden on IT.
Streamlined governance: Supports policy-based management, so administrators can govern common operations with a global set of business rules. Automatically maintains detailed audit trails to help you ensure information is traceable and certifiable.
Taking action on information: Allows you to build easy-to-read scorecards and dashboards that represent data against performance criteria visually with graphs, reports, key performance indicators, and analyses. Users can survey results at an overall level, and then analyze the details to determine the causes of variances and outcomes. By assigning owners to key business metrics, agencies can build in accountability from the individual to the enterprise.
Microsoft Office integration: Facilitates acceptance and helps to reduce training requirements by giving employees access to information and BI capabilities within established workflows and applications they already know how to use. Helps you combine BI capabilities with enterprise search, collaboration, and content management functionality.

The Microsoft business intelligence platform complements your existing systems with the tools and technologies you need to help you deliver highly scalable, enterprise-grade BI applications. Microsoft and its partners will help you determine your information requirements, and then work with you through every stage of BI development and deployment.

If it’s vital to government, it’s mission critical to Microsoft.

The following Microsoft partners can help you implement a business intelligence solution.

Download

Business Intelligence Solutions for Government

Partners

Showcase your solution

Share this on:
	Digg	Facebook
	del.icio.us	StumbleUpon

Artis Consulting is a professional services firm dedicated to delivering business intelligence and performance management solutions that provide the right information to the right person at the right time. Our offerings are focused on Microsoft business intelligence technologies—portals and collaboration content delivery (Microsoft Office SharePoint), enterprise reporting and analysis (SQL Server), and performance management applications (PerformancePoint)—all of which can help your organization improve business performance. Contact Artis Consulting at 972-702-9500, ext. 109.

Ascendra specializes in Enterprise Performance Management (EPM) for the project centric organization. Ascendra helps its clients leverage their investment in people and technology to reduce costs, and improve efficiency and accountability. By offering a packaged solution that brings together industry expertise with the Microsoft PerformancePoint Server and industry-focused Accelerators, Ascendra can provide your agency with a powerful, cost effective Enterprise Performance Management solution. Contact Ascendra at 301-461-6460.

Insight Public Sector's Business Intelligence (BI) includes complete solutions that allow you to easily access performance data, track your operations progress, analyze results and trends, and plan for the future of your mission using any combination of Microsoft products including Microsoft BizTalk Server, Microsoft Office PerformancePoint, Microsoft SQL Server, and Microsoft Office SharePoint Server. Insight Public Sector can implement any of these solutions to help you manage your Business Intelligence initiatives. Contact Insight Public Sector at 800.INSIGHT.

MicroLink LLC, Microsoft Federal Partner of the Year (2007), and Microsoft DoD Partner of the Year (2006, 2007), has deep technology and industry expertise in knowledge management enterprise solutions that include Business Intelligence, CRM, Enterprise Search, and Collaboration Portals. Utilizing these enterprise solutions to discover, share, manage, and leverage information is how the company’s customers improve their business processes and decision-making abilities, collaborate across their organizational silos and enhance their stakeholder services. The MicroLink Business Intelligence Roadmap leverages the functionality, power and flexibility of Microsoft technologies to help its customers progress from simple data collection to proactive performance management.

Planet Technologies, a three-time Microsoft federal partner of the year winner, provides deep expertise across Microsoft’s technologies with a Business Intelligence (BI) focus. Planet Technologies have proven expertise in SQL, Analysis Services, Performance Point, and rich interactive dash-boarding that can help your department or agency act quickly on the critical information Business Intelligence offers. Contact Planet Technologies at 301-721-0100.

Scalability Experts is in the business of helping organizations maximize the productivity, efficiency and investment in their SQL Server environment. Areas of expertise include Business Intelligence/Data Warehousing built on Microsoft Business Intelligence (BI) technologies, SQL Server BI scalability analysis, and BI migration/upgrade analysis. Scalability Experts can help you implement one or more of these BI solutions, so you can track, manage, and quickly act on critical information. Contact Scalability Experts at 469-635-6200.

Microsoft Services exists to help Microsoft customers and partners maximize the potential of their Microsoft technology investment. It offers architecture, implementation, and sustainment services—with a level of vision, expertise, and insight that you’d expect from Microsoft. Together with partners, Microsoft Services matches agency requirements with a safety net of support and direct access to the Microsoft teams that develop the products and understand future product direction. Contact Federal Services at AskUSPSS@microsoft.com.

Find a partner

Search for additional partners in the Microsoft Public Sector Partner Solution MarketPlace an easy resource for finding technology partners that offer a broad range of products, services, and solutions based on Microsoft technologies. The marketplace includes packaged software, solutions offerings, and training from Microsoft Gold Certified Partners, Microsoft Certified Partners, and registered members.

Microsoft makes no representations or warranties, either expressed, implied or statutory, regarding any company presented herein or its products or services. The inclusion of a company does not imply endorsement by Microsoft of the company or its products or services. The names of actual companies and products mentioned herein may be the trademarks of their respective owners.