A focus on MICROSOFT BI

Moving the dashboarding, scorecarding, and analytic functionality from the standalone product PerformancePoint Server 2007 and making it a component of SharePoint Server. Watch this short video explaining the update (5 min. 19 sec.).

Business Intelligence White Papers

Building Business Value from the Bottom Up: a Radical Approach to Integrating Predictive Analytics

Democratizing Data Mining – a Radical Approach to Pervasive Predictive Analytics

Improving Organizational Performance with Business Intelligence

Technical Evolution of BI – Envisioning the Future

 

Special Reports

IDC: Another Step Toward Pervasive Business Intelligence: Microsoft Realigns BI Product Portfolio and Its Internal Organization “The closer alignment of these technologies positions Microsoft well to take advantage of the current broad trend for more pervasive availability of BI and related solutions.” – Dan Vesset, IDC

AMR: Microsoft Repackages BI and PM Products to Further Promote Mass Adoption “This decision, which was not wholly unanticipated, streamlines Microsoft's BI story and uses its trinity of beachhead products – MOSS, Excel, and SQL Server – as the vehicles to cost-effectively bring business intelligence to the masses.” – John Hagerty, AMR Research

 

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