If you find it challenging to quickly, effectively, and economically get access to, analyze, report on, and share the information you need to achieve corporate objectives, we suggest you strongly consider business intelligence (BI). In particular, Microsoft Business Intelligence—a complete, fully integrated set of BI technologies that can help reduce the complexity of organizing and distributing information and lead to competitive advantages, overall better decisions, and an improved bottom line.

Microsoft BI is delivered through three layers or workloads: data warehousing, reporting and analysis, and performance management. These are designed to provide a consolidated, comprehensive data source and tools to help improve decision making. In our view, the promise of Microsoft BI is to help decision makers at all levels throughout your organization have confidence that their decisions support your company’s goals and initiatives.

To derive the maximum value from business intelligence solutions, you need technology that can perform these functions in real time and enable decision-makers at every level of your organization to analyze and act on the information.

The integrated Microsoft Business Intelligence platform includes:

• Microsoft .NET Servers and custom solutions for e-commerce and enterprise systems
• Microsoft SQL Server 2005 and SQL Server Analysis Services for data management and analysis
• Microsoft Office 2007 applications and technologies for analysis and reporting functionality
• Microsoft Office PerformancePoint Server 2007 for monitoring, analyzing, and planning
• Third-party partner solutions built on the Microsoft platform