What is BI?

Business intelligence (BI) refers to a range of applications and technologies for gathering, storing, analyzing, and providing access to data to support better decision making. BI applications include the activities of decision support systems, query and reporting, online analytical processing (OLAP), statistical analysis, forecasting, and data mining.

With Microsoft BI, your organization receives:

	Quick cleansing and transformation of data with high-performance integration tools that help keep information up-to-date.
	Data warehousing with enterprise-grade scalability that yields predictable results for end users and has simplified manageability.
	Proactive caching that automatically updates new and relevant information.
	Predictive analytical capabilities using integrated data mining models.
	Failover capabilities that maximize uptime for mission-critical applications.
	Reduced query time for high-performance information delivery.
	he ability to maintain control of who views sensitive data.

Empower your employees with tools they know

Microsoft BI offers a complete, integrated, fully scalable business intelligence solution that supports the entire organization and delivers the tools and resources needed to improve decision making and the overall performance of your business.
Now everyone across your organization can access the right information at the right time and in the right format.

Drive business performance with Microsoft Business Intelligence

Microsoft BI helps your organization gain transparency into operations by aligning metrics with strategy to improve
performance. With these tools, your team can better understand business drivers, shape solutions, execute shared plans, and interact with live data over the Web to help them make better decisions, faster. Because information is presented in a familiar format, planning, analyzing, and monitoring performance is easier than ever. In addition, your people have access to an integrated workflow for simpler consolidation and reporting and easy visualization of data to highlight exceptions, allowing them to drill down into detail and interact with large volumes of data quickly and easily.

Using Microsoft BI, your organization can effectively:

	Manage key performance indicators (KPIs) centrally for increased scalability.
	Create, manage, and collaborate on KPIs that align with corporate strategy.
	Personalize BI dashboards that meet the unique needs of individuals across the organization.
	Use workflow, subscriptions, and notifications to keep everyone up-to-date on organizational activity and detailed data.
	Maintain accountability by assigning ownership for specific performance indicators

How Microsoft Business Intelligence fits for your organization?