MICROSOFT BUSINESS INTELLIGENCE
Microsoft® Business Intelligence offers a complete suite of products that supports all facets of decision making. Through tight integration with the powerful, proven, and scalable Microsoft SQL Server™ 2005 platform, Microsoft Office® SharePoint® Server 2007, Microsoft Office Business Scorecard Manager 2005, ProClarity Analytics 6, and Microsoft Office PerformancePoint™ Server 2007, Microsoft provides complete business intelligence (BI) capabilities that deliver the right information, at the right time, and in the right format.
Building on the innovative features in SQL Server 2005 that help businesses understand and analyze large volumes of rapidly changing data, the 2007 Microsoft Office system enables decision makers to predict and harness the power of change to create competitive advantages, achieve corporate objectives, and make better decisions, faster. Now, with tighter integration with SQL Server 2005, the 2007 Microsoft Office system empowers people to be more productive by answering their own questions in a security-enhanced, familiar, and easier-to-use environment. This enables IT to focus their resources on higher-value BI projects and enables everyone else to focus on doing their jobs and less on getting the information needed to do their jobs.
New to the 2007 Microsoft Office system is a product called Office PerformancePoint Server, an extension and evolution of Microsoft Office Business Scorecard Manager and ProClarity Analytics. Office PerformancePoint Server is a performance management application that enables businesses to improve their performance by providing all employees with the ability to plan, budget, forecast, report, analyze and scorecard their activities using the familiar Microsoft Office system and SQL Server technology. Office PerformancePoint Server will help companies align metrics to strategy and improve performance by enabling every employee to understand business drivers, shape solutions, and execute shared plans.
In addition, Office SharePoint Server 2007 introduces Microsoft Excel® Services, which delivers the power, functionality, and accessibility of Microsoft Office Excel 2007 in a zero-client format. Now everyone can easily interact with live data over the Web.
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