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 (illustrated in Figure below)—including Microsoft Office, Microsoft SharePoint, and Microsoft® SQL Server® —making it the most cost-effective choice for deploying Business Intelligence throughout your organization.
So Microsoft SQL Server 2008 R2 serves as the BI Foundation where SQL Server Integration Services, Analysis Services and Reporting Services play a vital part in performing Data Mining and Analysis further SharePoint 2010 is an excellent platform to Share, Collaborate & Report the Analysis and Findings and obviously to empower your End Users you need to serve them with BI in their already known and familiar tools like Excel. So Office 2010 is the tool which empowers your end users to play an important part of your organization’s BI Lifecycle.
