Business Intelligence... Microsoft Business Intelligence (BI) offering If you find it challenging to quickly, effectively, and economically get access to, analyze, report on, and share the information you need to achieve corporate objectives, we suggest you strongly consider business intelligence (BI). In particular, Microsoft BI — a complete, fully integrated set of BI technologies that can help reduce the complexity of organizing and distributing information and lead to competitive advantages, overall better decisions, and an improved bottom line. Having the relevant information available is important in any situation, not at least when you face the customer in a project. BI delivers on a simple promise: improved business performance by delivering better decision-making throughout your entire organization. When you know that your insight into corporate data is sound, informed, and complete, you can trust every decision you make. With that level of confidence securely in hand, you can improve business performance, create competitive advantage, and achieve corporate objectives. Microsoft BI is delivered through three layers or workloads: data warehousing, reporting and analysis, and performance management. These are designed to provide a consolidated, comprehensive data source and tools to help improve decision-making. In our view, the promise of Microsoft BI is to help decision makers at all levels throughout your organization have confidence that their decisions support your company’s goals and initiatives. Data Warehousing Using the information that you already have, but do not utilize effectively, Data Warehousing can provide insight into your corporate data through an integrated, centrally managed, and trusted data source. Microsoft BI provides the proven capabilities of Microsoft SQL Server and SQL Server Integration Services that can help you easily build and manage data warehouses that scale to meet the needs of even the largest and most complex organizations. Reporting and Analysis Microsoft BI provides you with reporting tools, analysis tools, and technologies that can map to your specific needs. You can work with the widely used and now improved Microsoft Office Excel 2007, SQL Server Reporting Services, SQL Server Analysis Services, Report Builder, ProClarity Analytics, and data mining. What’s more, to help you share insights with others, Microsoft BI uses both the BI capabilities built into Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 and its core collaboration, search, and document management capabilities. With Microsoft BI, you have easy-to-use, economical tools that can help you access, report, analyze, and share information across your organization. Performance Management Microsoft BI can help your organization align the decision-making process through three capabilities: monitoring, analytics, and planning. These capabilities are built into Microsoft Office PerformancePoint Server 2007, a powerful performance management application that provides you with the infrastructure to link people at all levels of your organization—from executives to individual contributors—to your overall corporate strategy. Office PerformancePoint Server 2007 builds on the familiar Microsoft Office system environment and Microsoft SQL Server. BI in Microsoft Dynamics Business Management Solutions In addition to "generic" BI solutions, Microsoft also offers specific BI solutions for Microsoft Dynamics™ CRM. Contact us for more information. For more information, Contact us or visit Microsoft BI website