Business IntelligenceMicrosoft in the Enterprise

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“Newly minted executives, managers, and operational staff who have been exposed to

better, more integrated information access, analysis, and

management tools will expect to use

them to increase the

performance and

competitiveness of their

organizations.”

“Worldwide Business Intelligence Tools

Software 2009–2013 Forecast,” IDC,

Doc #217443, March 2009

“Through 2012, more than 35 per cent of the top 5,000 global companies will

regularly fail to make insightful decisions about significant changes in their business and markets due to underinvestment in their information infrastructure and business user tools.”“Predicts 2009: Business Intelligence and Performance Management Will Deliver Greater Business Value,” Gartner, Inc., December 2008

Why Talk About Business Intelligence?

“The broader the distribution of business intelligence and performance

management tools, the higher the potential return on the investment.”“The Payoff of Pervasive Performance Management,” BusinessWeek Research Services, May 2008

“More advanced enterprises leverage BI as a

corporate asset to survive,

compete — and even thrive — in tough economic

times.”

“BI Belt Tightening In A Tough Economic Climate: Practical Advice Applicable To Any Economic Condition,” Forrester Research, Inc., February 2009

Helping Your Organization Achieve Better Insights

Improving organizational effectiveness

Enabling IT efficiency

Empowering your people

with business insights

Empowering Your People with Business Insights

Business is challenged to… Microsoft offers…

Empower decision makers at all levels—strategic, tactical, and operationalDrive BI adoption with the familiar, intuitive tools they already use

Empowering Your People with Business InsightsIncrease Individual Productivity

Give users flexible, self-service BI capabilities so they can get the insight they need fast:

Analyze data and render reports directly within their familiar spreadsheet programExplore and drill into data in portals through their browserEasily and quickly build reports, dashboards, and analytics

Free IT to focus on more strategic efforts

Empowering Your People with Business InsightsEmpower Users While Reducing the Burden on IT

Help users distribute and collaborate on BI with their peers more easilyHelp keep data sound/ensure a single “version” of the numbers

Easily and dependably discover insights

Empowering Your People with Business InsightsImprove User Sharing and Discovery of Insights

Improving Organizational Effectiveness

Business is challenged to… Microsoft offers…

Improving Organizational EffectivenessIncrease Team and Organizational Productivity

Bring together structured and unstructured data from heterogeneous data sources in an interactive, easy-to-grasp formatEnable personalized, role-based views of data at the right depth:

FINANCE needs to…

Get a complete picture of the organization’s financial health

SALESneeds to…

Quickly understand the best targets and increase profitability

OPERATIONSneeds to…

Gain a big picture view of the organization’s performance

Improving Organizational EffectivenessImprove Visibility into Team/Organizational Objectives & Metrics

Help everyone across the organization understand:

Their own accountabilitiesTheir department’s accountabilitiesHow those accountabilities roll up to higher level organizational performance metrics

OPERATIONS

MARKETING

FINANCE HR ITSALES

ORGANIZATION

Improving Organizational EffectivenessIncrease Business User Efficiency

Boost efficiency with BI integrated as part of your wider business productivity platform:

LINE-OF-BUSINESS DATA

COLLABORATION

THIRD-PARTY REPORTS/DATA

ENTERPRISE SEARCH

BUSINESS INTELLIGENCE

ENTERPRISE CONTENT

MANAGEMENT

Enabling IT Efficiency

Business is challenged to… Microsoft offers…

Enabling IT EfficiencyCut Cost and Complexity

Reduce licensing, implementation, training, and ongoing support costs by using existing licensed technology (e.g. spreadsheet and portal software)

Reduce complexity with: Support for industry standards for easy interoperabilityOut-of-the-box tools for interoperability

Reduce hardware, energy, cooling, real-estate, licensing, and administrative costs and complexity with:

ConsolidationData compression

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Enabling IT EfficiencyScale Out to Support BI for All Users at a Lower TCO

Support massive amounts of dataSupport high query loads and clustering

Enabling IT EfficiencyIncrease IT Productivity

Boost productivity without requiring developers and administrators to learn new, specialized skills:

Enable developers to rapidly deliver new BI capabilities with an integrated design and development environmentEnable administrators to spend less time on routine maintenance and tuning with an integrated management experience

Delivering on the VisionTechnologies to Support BI

Existing investments , interoperable platform, storage optimization

Enterprise-class scalability

Familiar, intuitive IT tools

Dashboards Scorecards Unified business

productivity platform

Familiar, intuitive user tools

Self-service BI Centralized portals Integrated search

Improving organizational effectiveness

Enabling IT efficiency

Empowering your people

with business insight

Data infrastructure and BI platform

Business collaboration platform

Business user experience

Why Microsoft for BI?

Providing BI to all employees to help drive business performanceFamiliar, intuitive interface and self-service capabilitiesRelevant, consolidated views of business dataIntegrated with a collaborative infrastructureEnterprise-ready on a trusted and extensible platformUnparalleled economic value

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