Microsoft Business Intelligence

Microsoft Business Intelligence solutions build upon your existing technology investments, enabling employees to gain access to accurate up-to-date information for better and more relevant decision-making. Microsoft's BI solutions combine the advantages of a SQL server, Share Point and Office into a single platform, promoting business decision-making based upon quality information that will ensure your company's growth.

Using Microsoft's existing productivity improvement technologies allows companies to reduce their investment in BI solutions while shortening implementation times (as the systems are already being used), which produces an immediate positive impact on productivity owing to the users' close familiarity with the technologies.

Even though it has numerous functions, Microsoft's best known tool, Microsoft Office Excel, is not suitable for supporting business intelligence on a company-wide level, because it is inadequate for analysing large quantities of data, and because it creates islands of data and various versions of the truth. Furthermore, it does not support all needed visualisation and analytical techniques. The above-mentioned problems are addressed by a different group of Microsoft's BI tools based upon Microsoft SQL Server and its related services: Integration, Analysis and Reporting Services. Data, analyses and reports are distributed to end users via a SharePoint server. Advanced users can also analyse them in Excel.