1. GAINING INSIGHT TOUR 2007 Business Intelligence Shahid Gaglani Shahid.Gaglani@microsoft.com Technology Specialist Microsoft Corporation

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3. Business Intelligence Improving business insight “A broad category of applications and technologies for gathering, storing, analyzing, sharing and providing access to data to help enterprise users make better business decisions.” – Gartner

4. GAINING INSIGHT TOUR 2007 Improving organizations by providing business insights to all employees leading to better, faster, more relevant decisions Complete and integrated BI offering Widespread delivery of intelligence through Microsoft Office Enterprise grade and affordable Microsoft Business Intelligence Vision

5. GAINING INSIGHT TOUR 2007 Why?Why? What happened? What is happening? What happened? What is happening? What will happen? What do I want to happen? Business Intelligence Better execute on strategy

6. GAINING INSIGHT TOUR 2007 Why did it happen? Analytics Analytics What happened? Reporting Reporting What will happen? Forecasting What do I want to happen? Planning, Budgeting, Consolidation What do I want to happen? Planning, Budgeting, Consolidation What is happening? Scorecards and Dashboards What is happening? Scorecards and Dashboards Business Intelligence Capabilities required

7. GAINING INSIGHT TOUR 2007 END USER TOOLS AND PERFORMANCE MANAGEMENT APPS Excel PerformancePoint Server Custom Apps Un- Structured Data BI PLATFORM SQL Server Reporting Services SQL Server Analysis Services SQL Server DBMS SQL Server Integration Services SharePoint Server DELIVERY ReportsDashboardsExcelWorkbooksAnalyticViewsScorecardsPlans Our Integrated BI Offering

8. GAINING INSIGHT TOUR 2007 Information Delivery Data Marts Data Analysis (OLAP, Data Mining) Familiar, Powerful BI Tools ClientPortal Devices Enterprise ETL Third Party Applications Enterprise Reporting Performance Scorecard Interactive Reports Business Insights Data Warehouse Microsoft Offers An Unparalleled Degree Of Simplicity And Time-To-Value Tightly integrated “all-in-one” technology solution… increased manageability and the best economics Highly intuitive, visual tools…greater productivity from developers to users Comprehensive ability to integrate any data… improved data completeness CRM LOB ERP Source Systems

9. GAINING INSIGHT TOUR 2007 Maximize Your ROI All-in-One BI Offering –Connected Insight and better decision making –Avoid expensive add-on products or tools –Fastest time-to-market Leverage your existing investments –IT infrastructure – integrate with any data source –Developer skills and tools – utilize familiar tools –End user tools – Office as the preferred BI client Compelling price/performance –Low Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) –No add-on fees for additional BI capabilities –Ease of manageability

10. GAINING INSIGHT TOUR 2007 Comprehensive BI For the Integrated Enterprise Enterprise BI Platform

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