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Improve Business InsightHow Technology Can Help You Manage Business Performance More EffectivelyWhy, How, What, Who & When

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TopicsIntroductionTodays Worker ChallengesMeet Current Market Challenges with Business Insight For Performance ManagementStrategic Value / Emerging StrongerHow Technology Can HelpImprove Business InsightSolution ShowcaseDemosBusiness Insight Solutions In ActionOwnership / TeamworkNext Steps

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Why?To improve the organization by providing business insights to all employees leading to better, faster, more relevantdecisions.

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People Drive Business Outcomes

The New World Of Work

One world of businessAlways on,always connectedTransparentorganizationSimplifyworking togetherFind info andimprovebusiness insightSecure andmanage contentWorkplaceTrendsRole ofSoftware

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One of the key challenges for our information workers and people throughout our organization has to do with the wealth of information available to them with which theyre now expected to use to make the right decision, in time, to have an impact on the organization.

This information hits us throughout the day and impacts how we make decisions, steers our individual goals, our work across our teams, even impacting the overall results our company is able to achieve.

Whereas a few years back the challenge was that we didnt have the capability to get to the informationthe tools were rudimentary, there were not enough data connections, the bandwidth was not there, etc., todays challenge is that its everywhere you look, we have too much access, its in too many places, and now its hard to corral it all in time to help us in our jobs.

The challenge for organizations, teams, and individuals today is to find a way to harness the power of this information to make it work to our advantage. And thats where BI comes into play. When you use BI you get better results throughout our organization.6

The Need For Better Insight and Visibility Exists Throughout The Organization

VP, operationsVP, sales and marketingChief financial officer (CFO)

Chief executive officer (CEO)

I need to have the right demographic information so I can better target my opportunity prospecting.Sales rep

Customer support repI need better access to information to make better decisions on cross-sell and up-sell opportunities.

I need to know that the people in my organization have the right goals in place to understand and execute on the strategic initiatives of the company.I need better visibility into our pipeline performance so I can focus on deals that help me grow business with my most profitable customers.I need better visibility into my cost of operations so I can target specific cost reduction opportunities that wont have a negative impact.I need to improve our analytics capabilities so we can understand our current business performance and do a better job of planning for the future.Source: Creating the Office of Strategy Management by Robert Kaplan and David P. Norton, Harvard Business School, April 2005

Delivering business intelligence starts with our people at the center of the equation. At the end of the day, its all about how our people need to use information to make better business decisions.

Before today BI technology was developed and the people are told to adapt to the technology, our view is that the technology needs to adapt to our people. It needs to be flexible to account for the many different use cases, departments, and needs of the information in our organization.

And these needs differ all around our company. Our finance team may need information in one way and format and based on their own timelines, while sales and operations have completely different needseach team may want to see the data differently, have it refreshed at a different rate, and access different data sources from which they make their decisions.

This is a fundamental tenet for our view on how we help our customers. People Ready Business is not just a slogan for Microsoft company, its a guiding principle on how thay look at the BI technology, and how they deliver solutions that address customers most important business issues.

Performance ManagementIntegrated solution to align and measure the businessImprove corporate performanceScorecards to orient measurement to corporate goalsSingle model to align planning and analysis to the business processSpan the organization with planning and measurement capabilities

Accelerate management decision makingIntegrated scorecarding, analysis and planningIntegrated workflow for simpler consolidation and reporting Common model for planning used in analysis

Enable collaborative analysisIntegration with Office Excel for broad deployment of analysis capabilitiesPersonalized scorecards and KPIs for individual viewsCollaborative environment with context for analysis

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How Technology Can Help

Get more work done with fewer resources in the office, at home, or on the road.Improve Business InsightReduce IT Costs and RisksGain better insight into business drivers to make more informed decisions about improving competitive position.

Find customers more cost-effectively, close deals faster, and gain better insight into customer preferences to improve customer service, satisfaction, and loyalty.Reduce IT cost and complexity by deploying high-value, easy-to-manage technology products that helps keep sensitive data highly protected and systems active and available.

PrioritiesSave Time and Get Organized

Find and Retain Customers

There are four basic areas in which technology can drive success for your business.

Deploying our services and Microsoft technology can help you:

Save Time & Get Organized: Get more work done with fewer resources (time, people, and finances); improve teamwork and collaboration, manage your company information efficiently, and stay connected to the business while away from the office. Improve Business Insight: Gain better insight into operational and financial drivers so you can make more informed decisions about where to best allocate resources to improve your competitive position.Find and Retain Customers: Find customers more cost-effectively, close deals faster, and gain better insight on customer preferences to improve customer service, satisfaction and loyalty.Reduce IT Costs and Risks: Stay focused on running the business by simplifying your IT environment, minimizing network disruptions, and keeping your important data highly secure.9

Three Ways to Emerge StrongerLeverage existing systems to strengthen the business10Identify cost cutting opportunities and improve financial visibilityFinance & cost managementFree cash from operations while keeping operational strength Operational improvementStrengthen the customer base and find new sources of revenueSales and Marketing1

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How?With a complete and integrated BI for Performance Management affordable technology solution

that provides widespread delivery of intelligence insight through familiar tools such as Microsoft Office

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Solution Showcase

Aligning past information, present conditions, and predicting future outcomes

MonitorAnalyzePlanWhat happened?Reporting, ConsolidationWhat is happening?Scorecards and DashboardsWhy did it happen?AnalyticsWhat will happen?ForecastingWhat do I want to happen?Planning, Budgeting Microsoft Business Intelligence

2003-2005 Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved.This presentation is for informational purposes only. Microsoft makes no warranties, express or implied, in this summary.1212A successful business process management (BPM) solution enforces the necessary elements of closed-loop performance management processes that enable control, continuous feedback, and decision support, as well as information transparency strategies that standardize and increase the quality of corporate information.

A BPM strategy supported by technology moves organizations from a historically focused, manually driven reporting process to on-demand analysis and dynamic decision support.

IDC: http://mslibrary/research/MktResearch/IDC/Intranet/35063.htm

Office SharePoint helps you manage BPM through integrated monitoring, analyzing, and planning.

Office SharePoint offers reporting, scorecarding, and dashboarding to bring rapid visibility to performance against plan metrics to all users, providing a solid view of what is happening in the business.

Integrating those capabilities with analytics, lets users analyze the performance of their KPIs in context, pulling up highly relevant analytic views that help them understand performance.

Finally, integration with planning capabilities, allows organizations to drive performance across departments or across the entire organization. Hopefully reaching much more than the finance department and doing much more than year end budgeting and planning but involving other departments such as operations, manufacturing, and sales. Hopefully by integrating all these processes we can also drive out corporate alignment so that the entire organization is driving toward common objectives and able to measure efficiently how they are doing against those objectives.

Delivery through SharePoint Server:Provides an integrated application for managing performanceIs affordable to buy and deployIs flexible enough to handle complexityIs scalable enough to handle the enterprise demandsOffers access via easy-to-use Office environment, including Excel.Helps you drive business performance

MonitoringWhat is happening? What happened?Key performance indicators measure business performance at all levels of the organizationScorecards and KPIs are cascaded throughout the business to align, monitor, and drive performance

Analysis Why?Business users can easily analyze key business measures (for example, sales or profitability) by product, customer, channel, segment, or other filtersBusiness users can have the information their wayin exactly the view they need and without reliance on IT

PlanningWhat do I want to happen? What will happen?Planning based on analytical models for each business area with accurate measures of resources and resultsAssumptions and business drivers are part of the system, not offlineModel what if outcomes to determine best course, alternatives, and opportunities

SoundDataScalableConsistentIntegratedPersonaland TeamInsightSharableFamiliarProductiveCorporateDecisionsAlignedAccountableAgileStrategicValueMicrosoft Business Intelligence

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How does an organization derive the most value from their business intelligence investments? Over the last decade businesses have invested in multiple applications to help drive their business operations. Over time, allowing users to get a sense of overall business health became difficult and extremely challenging. Data was stored in different applications with different structures and elements like product and customer have been defined differently in different systems.

Thats when tools that helped businesses connect to those various applications and data sources were incredibly useful. These tools allowed users to build sound data. Data that was consistent, well defined as the users understood it, and integrated to help provide a broader access to business operational data.

In addition to those data integration tools it was imperative that businesses had the ability to collect and store this cleaned information for historical analysis purposes and increasingly regulatory reason, be able to manage it effectively. As data size grew, it became important to provide subset views of the data to the users that they cared about. Integrating a couple of the operational aspects of the business and presenting it to the user so that they can slice and dice the information became increasingly critical.

Together, integrating data from multiple sources, storing and managing this data and making it available in a way users can query the data is referred to the act of building sound data.

The issue is that so many businesses focused their efforts on building Sound Data, which is complex just by its nature, they did not focus on how the users will actually use this data. Will the users be able to get to this data using tools they feel most comfortable with, anytime and anywhere? Will they be able to share the insight they derived out of this data with their immediate team or with the entire organization at large? Because if the users cant derive personal insight and have the ability to share that insight with a broader team, then the value of Sound Data is very limited.

Finally, in today's world leveraging business insight to advance in front of competition and even use business insight to generate new revenue is a desired state by many businesses. Being able to plan business outcomes, monitor and analyze events as they happen and changing the plan with agility if desired outcomes are not materializing is one way of staying ahead of competition. Empowering users to align to a plan and providing them with the ability to drive actions with full knowledge of the planned outcomes, enables the best out of employees. Leveraging collective insights and driving an aligned organization provides the most strategic value to the investments that businesses make in BI technology.13

StrategicValueSoundDataPersonaland TeamInsightCorporateDecisionsScorecardsPlanningAuthoringConsolidationReportsAd hoc QueryDashboardsAnalysisData IntegrationStorageAnalyticsDataManagementMicrosoft Business Intelligence

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Users dont usually come to technology looking for sound data and business users dont come out and say they want to be empowered with personal insight and need to drive corporate decisions. Depending on the person in the organization there are various tools and technologies needed to help build sound data, enable personal and team insight and drive corporate decisions. 14

What?

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End-user Tools

Performance Management ApplicationsEnd-user ToolsPersonal and team Insights: Support individuals gaining and sharing insight throughout the organization

PlatformSound Data: Manage consistent and quality data once for all BI and performance management needs

Performance Management ApplicationsCorporate Decisions: Support decision making and action within corporate processes

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Microsoft has focused its investment in BI technologies in helping customers:

Build sound data by providing a sound BI platform that can help you integrate data, prepare data for analysis, and report on data Build end user tools that can connect to the BI platform to enable users to derive personal and team insight. And build performance management applications that let business monitor, analyze, and plan corporate decisions15

Application Platform InfrastructureAdvance the business with IT solutions that maximize business opportunity

16The catalyst for business growth therefore, is the right application infrastructure and capabilities to manage risk, efficiencies and change while driving better levels of customer experience. We see that there are five essential functional areas or capabilities that organizations must focus on to provide the application environment that will move IT from simply an enabler to contributor of business innovation:Data management: We are seeing more and more industry demand for data management that spans beyond the data center to encompass a broad set of data types as well as the secure capture of the high volume anonymous data that sits outside the data center. The ability to access, integrate and manage disparate data sources in mixed IT environments drives greater operational efficiency. Further scalable and high transactional support provides for always on reliable business operations.

Business intelligence: Customers want a more complete view of the business to inform decision making. Our is goal help people and their organizations by providing actionable business insights to all employees so that they are able to better identify and seize opportunity while mitigating potential risk

SOA and business process: We also understand the inherent complexities of connecting systems in heterogeneous environments and aligning core business activities. Our commitment is to provide a flexible service oriented approach to help customers manage change, streamline, connect and automate business processes and interoperate with existing IT investments

Development: Delivering software initiatives that drive business value on time and at desired quality requires aligning the right roles and teams across business and IT. Our commitment is to ensure individual and team productivity by offering the right level of visibility, collaboration and control within the software development process. Real-time data capture (BI on software initiatives) and customizable lightweight process and reporting are vital for compliance, project estimation, impact analysis and repeatable success

User experience: Business growth through customer expansion and retention through to individual and organizational productivity is rooted in the experience that people have with a companys applications and services. We are committed to making it easier for IT to deliver customizable and superior user experiences that offer greater competitive differentiationAs IT competencies, these are represented through our application platform strategy spanning our underlying platform architecture .NET and WinFX run time components through to core products such as SQL Server; Biztalk Server and Visual Studio combined with Office System and Windows Server System. Our goal is to ensure a trusted adaptable foundation for modern applications.

Business User Experience

Microsoft Solutions for Business InsightGet more out of products already owned

Data Infrastructure and BI PlatformAnalysis ServicesReporting ServicesIntegration ServicesMaster Data ServicesData MiningData WarehousingBusiness Collaboration PlatformDashboards & ScorecardsExcel ServicesWeb based forms & workflowCollaborationSearchContent ManagementLOB data integrationFamiliar User Experience Self-Service access & insightData exploration & analysisPredictive analysisData visualizationContextual visualizationBusiness Collaboration PlatformData Infrastructure & BI Platform23

A trusted platform is critical for a business intelligence solution to work today. If were going to achieve the promise of BI, we need to have the confidence and trust in the data, we need to know where it came from, and that it is both timely and reliable for us to use to make a decision. Thats where the power of an integrated BI platform like SQL Server comes into play.

Once you have the data ready to use, the middle tier comes into play, where business users actually interact with the data and turn it into something that is useful to them to make the right decision. The numbers that we pull from other systems are just thatwe need applications and content to turn them into actionable itemsand thats where the middle tier comes into play.

Finally, we need the right tools and applications to ensure that we can use that data in the way we want to in order to make our decisions. Applications and tools that range from personal, to team, to organizational and corporate tools, all with a familiar look and feel, all integrated and working with my operating system, email, Internet search function. And this is what the power of integration through Microsoft Office brings you. From the Office productivity tools like Excel, through to the team and collaboration tools of SharePoint. By integrating BI seamlessly into a broader business productivity suite that includes search, collaboration, unified communications, and content management, we offer the end user a much richer experience.

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Reporting and AnalysisBroad reach tools for insightAnalyze information with powerful and familiar toolsNew Office Excel Pivot Tables for analyzing information using business termsTight integration between Office Excel and Microsoft SQL Server Analysis ServicesEnabling end-users with ad hoc reporting capabilitiesReport Builder for ad hoc reporting of relational or OLAP dataMicrosoft SQL Server Reporting Services for personalized views of management dataShare reports and analysis over the webExcel Services for web based viewing of analysisScorecards and dashboards for quickly disseminating informationReport Center for centralized report management and repository


Deeper Intuitive Shared Insight

Business Insight Solution Scenario RoadmapInteractive Reporting withAdvanced Dashboards and ScorecardsDoing More with Ad Hoc Reporting and Scorecards

Basic Business Insight

Getting Started with Reporting and Data Visualization

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Delivering the right BI tool for every Role in the OrganizationAgilityPersonal BIAccountabilityTeam BIAlignmentOrganizational BI

Demos: BI for your role

Point of the slide: Show that from Office Excel, to Office SharePoint we need the right tool to fit the needs of every BI user in the organization, focused on the key differentiating themes of personal, team, and corporate BI needs in the organization.

Flow of the slide: People use BI for many different tasks within their organizations. So, you need a flexible solution that delivers information to people when they need it, and in the format they need, in order for it to be used. That extends to delivering agile solutions focused on personal BI and personal productivity, as found in the Office Enterprise 2007 solutions like Excel, Visio, and other tools. But we dont only work as individualswe work in groups and teams to get our projects done. That requires a different kind of BIone that is focused on accountability throughout the team, to ensure the team is able to work in an environment that promotes collaboration and rapid sharing of information to drive to a common decision. And, Office SharePoint 2007 is being used in organizations everywhere to accomplish this task. Lastly, the work we do is ultimately aligned to the overall company goals and objectives. This is BI that everyone can get behind. The company goals and metrics, and our team and personal tasks should be aligned and integrated. You need BI that lets everyone have access to organizational goals and metrics, ensuring organizational alignment. And, with Office SharePoint Server 2007, you have an easy to use and powerful corporate BI tool that allows you to do just that.

Soundbite: This is the most flexible and familiar set of BI tools that fits the needs of all users throughout the organizationdriving personal agility through Office, Team accountability through Office SharePoint Server, and corporate alignment through Office PerformancePoint Server.20

Business intelligence (BI) is the process of aggregating, storing, analyzing, and reporting on business data in order to support informed business decisions. Microsoft Office SharePoint Server provides a number of tools that can help you extract data from a variety of sources and present that data in ways that facilitate analysis and decision making.Play Demo

Microsoft Business IntelligenceDemo: Make Better Business Decisions With Reports & Dashboards

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Better decisions by individuals, teams and org

Effective execution of key process

Risk avoidance

Improved governance and transparency

Intelligent resource deployment and utilization

More agile strategy execution

MEASURABLE RESULTS

Performance Management ApplicationsEnabling featuresdemo: Sample Report Center dashboard usingExcel Services, KPIs, and filtered Web Parts

demo: Publishing & viewing an Excel worksheet from a Web browser using Excel Services.

Product Data SheetWhitepaper: Transforming Your Business with SharePoint Products & Technologies

These results are realized by: Better execution of key processes within their organization, such as the planning process, period closing processes, sales planning, forecasting processes, and other key processes that organizations must engage in to achieve the results they seek The ability to avoid risk or at least to identify the level of risk, explore alternatives, and pick a course of action that appropriately balances risks, outcomes, and positive results Improved governance and transparency. As shareholders, regulators, governments, and the public look to organizations to be more transparent and accountable, they need solutions that help to communicate effectively how they achieve business results, how they measure and evaluate risk and the effects of different factorssuch as competitive, environmental, governmental, societal, and supply chain factorsinfluence the business More intelligent deployment and utilization of the organizations resources, whether it be human resources, capital, or operational expenditures More agile execution of strategy, through better alternative analysis, improved decision making, and better use of organizational resources Better decisions across the organization, from individuals, through teams, and ultimately throughout the organization22

With Microsoft Office SharePoint Server, organizations can easily create portal sites that connect individual sites across an organization and consolidate access to existing business applicationsMicrosoft Business IntelligenceDemo: Connect People To Information With Portals

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Improve Business InsightGain deeper insight into the business so you can make more informed decisions that produce better results. Deploy technology that delivers:At-a-Glance DashboardsCustomized ReportingPowerful Data AnalysisAutomated Business Processes

Having the right technology can help you:Manage business performance more effectivelyIncrease operational efficiency



Empowered Aligned

Partner: Use any the following proof points to support the business benefits outlined on the slide. Customize depending on the size and needs of your prospect.

Manage business performance more effectivelyQuickly analyze data and create charts easily, so you can better monitor inventory, operations, and other information to make more informed decisions about where to best invest cash and resources.Easily reconcile your bank accounts, directly compare your receivables and payables, compare actual postings against budget, and analyze data to track and forecast future cash flow.Get a snapshot of information such as bank account balances, important reminders, and accounts receivable and payable on one screen to track and forecast future cash flows to make better-informed business decisions.Make sophisticated data analysis easier through redesigned interfaces and simple data visualization tools so you can make quicker and more informed business decisions.Combine data from different business applications and data sources to create customized reports for deeper data analysis.

Increase operational efficiencyStreamline manual processes (e.g., inventory, ROI calculations and cash flow overviews) to reduce costs and improve efficiency.Automate tasks such as order fulfillment and supply procurement to ensure accuracy and confidence, and to reduce wasted time and paperwork.

Key ProductsMicrosoft Office 2007 (1-4 PCs, 5-49 PCs)Microsoft SQL Server 2008Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007

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Integrated End-to-EndEnd-User Tool and Performance Management Applications

BI Platform (RDBMS, ETL, OLAP, Reporting)

Delivery

SAP

ORACLEIBMSIEBEL

Mainframe/ Departmental Systems

Embracing the BI platform by Microsoft enables delivery of the right level of information to the various users across the organization, all from a tightly integrated range of products. Whether it be personal, team, or corporate-wide BI requirements, this provides a single BI environment focused on two main productsOffice, and SQL Server. The unification and integration of these products ensures that we can deliver information in the right context in a unified experience to anyone in the organization.

Integration is the second component of our BI mission.

Definitions:

RDBMS: Relational Database Management SystemOLAP: Online Analytical ProcessingETL: Extract, Transform, Load

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Who?Performance Management Needs Ownership Beyond IT

Personal BI

StrategyObjectivesMetric Definitions Operational Data from LOB SystemsOperational Data from LOB SystemsActionsAdjustmentsPlanningScorecards,Planning, Applications,AnalyticsBusiness IntelligencePerformance ManagementInfrastructure and PlatformsPeople, Processes, and ApplicationsBusiness DrivenIT-Driven

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Who? Effective Performance Management Requires Ownership Beyond IT

Effective performance management is driven by strategy, a top-down approach. An organization needs to articulate where it wants to go and how it is going to get there. From this are derived a set of key objectives and associated metrics that should be driven down the organization, establishing alignment and understanding at all levels of the business.

At the same time, information about the current and past state of the business needs to be bubbled up from the underlying operational business systems. This information is used to populate the defined metrics, allowing insight and action on the key objectives associated with the organizations strategy.

This is where performance management and BI meet. Performance management defines the structure and context, BI provides the data and tools to make this work.

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Key Roles

BusinessProcess ExpertsProject /ArchitectureExpertsImplementationExpertsSalesFinanceOperationsHR Business Intelligence Manager / ArchitectProject ManagersETL developers, OLAP developers, report developers, dashboard, and analysis developers, planning developerScalability, availability, and performance experts

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Roles in a Business Intelligence Project Implementation

Business Process Experts

SalesFinanceOperationsHR

Project/Architecture Experts

Business Intelligence Manager / ArchitectProject Managers

Implementation Experts

BI DeveloperData Integration (ETL) developerBI DeveloperTSQL developerBI DeveloperMultidimensional/OLAP developerBI DeveloperReport DeveloperBI DeveloperMonitoring and Analysis dashboard developerBI DeveloperPlanning applications developerBI DeveloperManagement Reporter developerIT ImplementerInstallation, Configuration, Security, Management, Performance Tuning

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When? .. Take the Next Steps Today!Get actively Engaged With BI At This OrganizationFamiliarize staff on Planned Solid BI / PM Initiative plans --why--who--how

Define BI roles, accountabilities & responsibilitiesComplete BI / PM competency training;Excel 2007Office SharePoint

Make Purchasing & Implementation PlansDesign, Develop, Test & DeployStabilizeEducateMonitorImproveBusiness ValueInvestingActively EngagedGetting Started

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Role Based Learning Paths

SalesFinanceBI Manager / ArchitectIT ImplementerOperationsHRBIDeveloper (BI Platform)Data Integration, OLAP Developer, TSQL Developer, and Report Developer

BI Developer (Performance Management)Monitoring and Analysis Developer, Planning Developer, Management and Report Developer

Roles in a BI solution implementation

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Powered by the flexibility and horsepower of Microsoft SQL Server and delivered through the trusted and familiar Microsoft Office system

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Your existing dataData consolidationDashboards & ScorecardsCentral database

Data consolidation, analysis and reportingDeliveryEnd-user tools

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Microsoft SharePointQuickly and easily create and deliver rich, interactive reports32Create interactive BI dashboards and scorecards quickly and easily and share with individuals, teams or your entire organization

Create interactive dashboards and scorecards to quickly understand if your organization is on target to reach your business objectives

Dashboards And ScorecardsThe Report Center site provides a central location for business-intelligence-related information. It contains special document libraries for storing reports, lists, and connections to external data sourcesReport CenterExcel Services enables you to store an Excel workbook on a server and then publish any part of that workbook on a Web page. Users need only a browser to view and interact with the live data.Excel Services

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Microsoft Office Excel Quickly and easily create and deliver rich, interactive reports33By using Office Excel and Excel Services to create reports, you can navigate, sort, filter, input parameters, and interact with PivotTable views directly on a Web browser

Create and share reportsBy harnessing the data mining algorithms of Microsoft SQL Server 2008 Analysis Services, business users can quickly gain valuable insight into complex sets of data with just a few mouse clicks.Analyze and share information

Online Analytical Processing (OLAP) is a technology that can enable you to organize large business databases and to support detailed business intelligenceLeverage OLAPMicrosoft Office Excel is the most commonly used business intelligence tool today, and for good reason


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Data WarehousingCentrally managed, integrated, single version of the truthIntegrate information from disparate sourcesAccess corporate data in a heterogeneous environmentCleanse and transform data with high performanceEnsure high quality data

Store and manage vast amounts of detail dataMaintain high performance for multiple users with varying workloadsTap multiple terabytes of atomic data for analysisAccess granular and aggregate data for reporting

Analyze information with an integrated view of your businessProactive Caching for real time analysis A centrally managed KPI engine for usage across the businessData mining for predictive analytics to determine what will happen


Integrate data from multiple sources quickly, perform complex business analytics, and create, manage, and deliver rich reportsSQL Server 2008The foundation of Microsoft business intelligence technologies35

Integrate, aggregate, and collect information from multiple heterogeneous data sources via a rich portfolio of native and non-native data source connectors

Integrate Any DataCreate and manage scalable, high-performance data warehouses and data marts via tried and tested relational database management system (RDBMS) and online analytical processing (OLAP) technologies.Quickly Build a Data WarehouseCreate and deploy reports on heterogeneous RDBMS and OLAP data sources. Perform multi-dimensional and predictive analytics to produce business insights from aggregated information. Deliver Business Insight


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SQL Server is the fastest growing DBMSOLTP and Data Warehouse Benchmark LeaderLeader in Gartners Magic Quadrant for Data WarehousingSQL Server is the #1 OLAP ServerSQL Server 2008A comprehensive BI platform36

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