Enabling Business Intelligence for Everyone

From boardroom executives to frontline operation managers, the uncertain economy has highlighted the necessity—and the benefits—of making informed decisions. To cut costs, streamline operations, and fuel continual process improvements, employees must be empowered to make better decisions at every level in the organization. Critical business data needs to be accessible to all employees, so that they can perform their own analyses and freely share insights with team members. With access to relevant data, employees can find opportunities to operate more efficiently and grow revenues, so the company can emerge stronger from any economic environment.

Microsoft delivers a complete Business Intelligence (BI) suite with the familiar productivity tools in Microsoft® Office 2010 and the collaboration and search technologies in Microsoft® SharePoint Server® 2010. Using Microsoft Business Intelligence, your employees gain deep business insights while working in familiar environments, and then easily share these insights across the organization.

Organizations typically already own much of the Microsoft Business Intelligence solution —including Microsoft Office, Microsoft SharePoint, and Microsoft® SQL Server® —making it the most cost-effective choice for deploying Business Intelligence throughout your organization.

This paper describes typical BI implementation challenges and details how Microsoft Business Intelligence applications are designed to overcome these challenges—while empowering your people with business insights, improving your organizational effectiveness, and enabling IT and developer efficiencies.

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