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Business Intelligence

Notes You both as an external or interior client will achieve much quicker difficulty explaining
and conclusion making ability at all grades strategic, operational and tactical

You get the right information at the right time to facilitate and expedite key decisions
5.4.2 Microsoft’s Business Intelligence Platform Strategy

Microsoft’s business intelligence platform strategy is rooted in its database proposing: SQL
Server 2000. SQL Server 2000 is the anchor storage and query expertise behind.NET servers. And,
one of the key applications for SQL Server is business intelligence. The business intelligence
platform scheme for Microsoft leverages SQL Server-based technologies and goods through
these components:
Deliver a comprehensive business intelligence platform with sophisticated data
warehousing techniques, large analytic functionality, and very good presentation and
scalability across all platform components
Through Microsoft’s business intelligence platform:

impel business intelligence to the edges of the business
Make business intelligence more pervasive inside the corporation
Make business intelligence more reachable for more users and more types of users
Microsoft applies this platform strategy through the application of a well-known and well-
proven Microsoft product trading equation. That equation has these key components:
very quick implementation
Ease of discovering and ease of use
reduced cost and high worth

fast return on investment (ROI)
This is the equation that Microsoft has frequently demonstrated and consistently proven. The
business has used it effectively for its Windows platform (now .NET platform), its SQL Server
database as utilised for OLTP applications, its e-commerce platform, business Server, and its
application development suite, Visual Studio. While all of us have been trained to be sceptical
(even very unlikely) about phrases like “fast implementation” and “ease of use,” Microsoft has
always consigned on them. And, this is not just a vision for little organizations with little
allowances. Microsoft consigns data warehousing worth to companies of all dimensions.
Netting it out, Microsoft’s business intelligence platform scheme endows companies of any
dimensions, of any grade of business intelligence skill and know-how, of any IT budget to
establish business understanding all through and to deliver and accomplish the benefits of
business intelligence—improved effectiveness, greater efficiency, and higher quality throughout
all their business methods.

5.4.3 Partnerships

Microsoft’s business intelligence platform is built on Microsoft expertise. Microsoft controls all
aspects of it creation, development, product trading, and support. The firm feels that this platform
is core to its database scheme and an integral constituent of snare. Control of the whole platform
from designing, design, development, and product marketing perspectives is absolutely vital in
alignment to supply consistency, integration, and timely technology delivery for both Microsoft’s
customers and its partners. However, partnerships are critical to Microsoft and to its business

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