When you need to know where your business stands, right now, we
can offer a range of solutions to give you usable,
action-orientated information. We ensure that it is structured for
results and to help you take decisions.
Microsoft Business Intelligence Overview
Meet the business intelligence needs of executives and
employees while minimizing associated IT management issues and cost
with Microsoft Business Intelligence solutions. Available as part
of the familiar Microsoft Office and Microsoft SharePoint Server
products, and built on the powerful Microsoft SQL Server platform.
Take advantage of the following Microsoft Business Intelligence
capabilities to connect people to data and to each other, while
easing the burden on IT staff and maintaining proper
governance.
Self-Service
Your employees often use office productivitytools such as
Microsoft Excel to pull together and analyze data to
help make daily decisions. Although these tools
offerflexibility and speed over relying on the ITdepartment to
help pull data together for them, data integrity is
often at risk. With the self-service capabilities offered
by Microsoft Business Intelligence solutions, employees can
continue to use the tools they prefer, while giving the IT
department the ability to monitor, manage, and govern the data and
solutions that end users work with, so that the integrity of data
and the stability of the system can be maintained.
Dashboards and Scorecards
Provide access to information and
performance monitoring from virtually any data source
across the organization throughinteractive,
content-driven dashboards and scorecards that combine
data from multiple systems into a single
browser-basedexperience. Dashboards enable users with
advanced filtering, analytics and data exploration
from within the browser, allowing them to find answers to
question and the root cause behind performance measures. Because
these capabilities ship as part of SharePoint Server, you can
utilize current investments to deploy dashboards and scorecards
broadly across your organization while benefiting from ease of
central management and administration.
Collaboration
Through SharePoint Server, employees canmore easily connect
and collaborate with each other, find peers
with subject expertise , and share content to
make better informed and more agile business
decisions.Employees can share their own business reports
and analysis in a centralized,managed, and secure environment.
They can effortlessly find information across unstructured sources
(blogs, wikis, presentations, documents) as well as structured
sources (reports, spreadsheets, analytical systems) all from one
environment. Providing seamless end-to-end business collaboration
for increased user productivity and decision making.
Reporting
The market share-leading reporting solution
from Microsoft, Microsoft SQL Server Reporting
Services is the solution of choicefor businesses that
require enterprise reporting capabilities. Because
Reporting Services ships with SQL Server, you can fully
utilize your current investments to access and
combine data from virtually anydata source to meet
the reporting needs of your business. Covering the full
range of reporting through highly intuitive ad-hoc reporting for
business users as well as providing powerful report authoring
environments for IT professionals and developers. Microsoft also
offer agility and choice by extending reporting into the cloud
through Microsoft SQL Azure Reporting, allowing you to take
advantage of the accessibility and elasticity of the cloud.
Analytics
The best analysts, and often the best assets, in most
organizations are those who love to dig into the data
and really understand why the business is performingthe
way it is. They may complete a financial
modeling exercise to predict future revenue or drill
into sales data to understand why a store in one
region is outperforming all theother stores.
Because Microsoft SQL Server Analysis Services ships with SQL
Server, you can fully utilize your current investments to pull
together analytical models from virtually any data source across
your organization with the industry's leading OLAP solution. Users
can access these analytical capabilities through the familiar
Microsoft Excel and SharePoint Server environments, extending the
reach to more employees throughout the organization.
Predictive Analytics and Data Mining
Dig deeper to deduce knowledge. Move beyond simple
data analysis to identify hidden trends, problems, or
relationships in the data. After insights are extracted
from patterns, clusters, and trends, people can better
identify the root cause of problemsand predict future
outcomes. Microsoft builds these powerful data mining
capabilities into SQL Server AnalysisServices, allowing
you to fully utilize your current investments in SQL Server to
surface predictive analytics in your reports, dashboards, and
scorecards to provide deeper insights to more employees. Through
the Data Mining Add-ins for Excel we make the power of data mining
available through the familiar and intuitive Excel experience,
making these capabilities accessible to a broader range of
users.
Data Integration and Data Warehousing
Store and connect information securely, and make
the extraction, transformation, and loading
processes easier by using Microsoft data ware-housing
solutions. Organizations can reducelong-term storage
requirements and generate reports faster because these
solutions aggregate, compress, and store data in a
dynamic, scalable, integrated system. Mission-critical
applications require nonstop access to data. Meet your business
continuity goals with Microsoft SQL Server 2008 R2
high-availability technologies, which offers high scalability and
performance at low cost through massively parallel
processing(MPP).