Business Intelligence Gets The Microsoft Treatment

摘要

How many business intelligence tools does your company use? Probably too many. That's why some companies are trying to reduce the number of BI tools they use. Microsoft wants to make sure its products are among the ones you keep. Microsoft last week unveiled PerformancePoint Server 2007, a performance management and business scorecard application for data analysis, planning, budgeting, and forecasting. The software, which won't be available until mid-2007, will add to Microsoft's growing business intelligence line that includes reporting and analysis tools built into the SQL Server database and Office applications such as the SharePoint portal and Excel spreadsheet.