Business intelligence is all about helping people at all levels of an organization to get the information that they need to make faster, better decisions that drive the business forward.  Timely access to critical data, reporting, and analytics—personalized by role—can empower your information workers to become real-time decision makers who take informed actions that reflect and achieve your corporate goals. And by building a single, complete system, you can contain costs by relieving your IT professionals of the need to maintain disparate business intelligence systems. With a flexible, integrated platform that enables you to simply connect back-end systems and that provides easy-to-use tools that give your people rich, actionable insights, you can maximize the business value of your data.

Drive pervasive business performance

• Align activities to corporate strategy, measure performance, and ensure compliance.
• Reduce the time and effort required to plan, budget, forecast, and report on the business.
• Empower all employees to contribute to managing the business.
• Unlock the value of information in ERP systems and custom applications.

Implement a complete and integrated business intelligence solution

• A tightly integrated offering that solves the client and server problem at the same time.
• Support for the entire breadth of a customer’s BI needs including business score carding, analysis and reporting.
• Faster time market; quicker time to solution.
• Less need to build large staffs developing BI from scratch allowing them to focus on higher value tasks.
• Simpler management through a common management environment.
• Lower development costs through a common development environment.
• An offering that delivers greater value because of the tight integration.

Deliver widespread intelligence through Microsoft Office

• The ability for customers to interact with analytic data where they feel most comfortable, Microsoft Office Excel.
• The ease of use and familiarity with which they’ve grown accustomed applied to business intelligence.
• The ability to easily share and collaborate with insight gained from business intelligence.
• Common, familiar interface that is integrated with the BI platform.

Meet enterprise needs with affordable economics

• Peace of mind knowing that the most critical systems will remain running and performing.
• The ability to scale without limits adding data, users, and complexity.
• The capability to finally drive business intelligence to the entire organization (any and all users).
• The capability to finally afford business intelligence for the entire organization.
• The ease of use and management that customers have come to expect from Microsoft.