Microsoft has been in the BI space for more than 10 years, starting with a world-class BI platform and extending into tools and BI applications for managing business performance. Our goal is to transform how companies use business intelligence, giving every employee access to the data required to make informed decisions—in the right tool and in the right format.
Microsoft BI delivers a full range of familiar, tightly integrated BI capabilities that enable individuals, teams, and organizations to better achieve performance management.

A few years ago, people were challenged to make decisions without having access to all the information they needed. Technology was rudimentary and connecting to corporate data sources was difficult.

Today's challenge is the opposite: data is on the Internet, in formal data systems, documents, e-mail, spreadsheets, and in our own knowledge and experience. We're inundated with information that impacts how we make decisions, and we're finding it increasingly difficult to harness the power of this information.

Traditional business intelligence (BI) approaches address only a fraction of the information we use in decision making. For one thing, they're limited to the ERP system, the data warehouse, or other transactional systems we have in place. For another, they are often inflexible, making us adapt to them instead of conforming to the natural decision-making flow within our organizations. In the end, productivity suffers.

Microsoft has been in the BI space for more than 10 years, starting with a world-class BI platform and extending into tools and BI applications for managing business performance. Microsoft's goal is to transform how companies use business intelligence, giving every employee access to the data required to make informed decisions—in the right tool and in the right format.

Microsoft's BI offering integrates with your existing environment and takes advantage of your existing assets. You can deploy Microsoft BI to more people inside and outside of your organization. You can affect your entire value chain at a fraction of the cost of traditional offerings.

Microsoft BI delivers a full range of familiar, tightly integrated BI capabilities that enable individuals, teams, and organizations to better achieve performance management. Most likely, your organization already uses these tools:

• Microsoft Excel is the world's No. 1 personal BI productivity tool.
• SharePoint Server offers team and organizational collaboration capabilities.
• PerformancePoint Server provides performance management capabilities for the entire organization.
• SQL Server is the foundation for Microsoft BI, providing the infrastructure to bring everything together through its integration, reporting, and analysis capabilities.

Microsoft BI was designed to drive productivity and business performance, in one solution, for the way you already work.

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