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Spotlight Get Ahead With Fast Track Data Warehouse Reduce your BI cost today with the new SQL Server Fast Track Data Warehouse. With seven new reference architectures from Dell, HP, and Bull, Fast Track Data Warehouse makes it faster, easier, and more affordable to deploy. Fast Track prices start from $13,000 per terabyte and offer great performance out of the box. Click here to read the full announcement Microsoft Announces an Update to the Product Roadmap for Business Intelligence Microsoft unveiled changes to the company's business intelligence strategy in January. By incorporating Office PerformancePoint Server 2007 features into Office SharePoint Server, Microsoft is helping fulfill the mission of bringing BI to the masses and set Microsoft apart from many of the BI vendors that require the purchase of specialized applications. Click here to read the full announcement
Product News Press Pass: Microsoft Brings Business Intelligence to the Masses With SharePoint Kurt DelBene, senior vice president of the Office Business Platform Group at Microsoft, discusses changes to Microsoft's business intelligence strategy, including how customers and their businesses will benefit through pervasive BI. Read the full press release TDWI: Microsoft's Big Change on Performance Management (and BI) "Cost of ownership goes well beyond licensing costs. But indeed licensing is the most notable out-of-pocket expense, and Microsoft's approach to seeding the market has clearly been a successful strategy. In today's economy, it's a great move by Microsoft." - Cindi Howson Read the blog entry CRN: Microsoft Adds Muscle to SharePoint Server "Microsoft made the right move by eliminating a separate SKU and adding more functionality to SharePoint. Many customers are looking to leverage critical business information in a more consolidated and cohesive way, and PerformancePoint dashboards are finding their way into basic SharePoint applications for management." - Ken Winell, CEO of ExpertCollab Read the article Computerworld: Microsoft Folds PerformancePoint Server Into SharePoint "We thought there was a much better way to achieve our goal of 'BI for the masses,' which is to make these features a seamless part of how they already work with SharePoint, SQL Server or Excel." - Kristina Kerr Read the article SQL Magazine: Game Changing Announcement for Microsoft BI "The impact of this announcement for the BI market in 2009 is vast. Consider each and every SharePoint Enterprise Edition customer as a first-order PerformancePoint monitoring and analytics customer. This ties right back to the strategy of encouraging customers to use the software they own, with their data to create value." - Barry Ralston Read the article
Analyst News IDC: Another Step Toward Pervasive Business Intelligence: Microsoft Realigns BI Product Portfolio and Its Internal Organization "The closer alignment of these technologies positions Microsoft well to take advantage of the current broad trend for more pervasive availability of BI and related solutions." - Dan Vesset, IDC Read the report AMR: Microsoft Repackages BI and PM Products To Further Promote Mass Adoption "This decision, which was not wholly unanticipated, streamlines Microsoft's BI story and uses its trinity of beachhead products-MOSS, Excel, and SQL Server-as the vehicles to cost effectively bring business intelligence to the masses." The closer alignment of these technologies positions Microsoft well to take advantage of the current broad trend for more pervasive availability of BI and related solutions." - John Hagerty, AMR Research Read the report
Partners Meet the Winners of the Microsoft BI Solution Demo Contest These partners demonstrated exceptional BI solutions that enable customers to gain deep insight into business data and help make critical business decisions. Microsoft BI partners from all over the world participated in the contest, the partners who won the Grand Prize are as follows
Events Microsoft BI Conference Date Change The past year was an exciting year for Microsoft Business Intelligence! At the last BI Conference, we unveiled some of our plans for the next wave of BI technology with "Kilimanjaro" and the much talked about "Gemini". In early 2009, we announced that we are moving the scorecarding, dashboarding and analytical capabilities of PerformancePoint into SharePoint Server, bringing BI to exponentially more people within an organization. At TDWI, we announced impressive advancements in our data warehousing technology with Fast Track Data Warehousing. Through 2009 and 2010 we will see more news and advancements around Microsoft BI as we lead into the launches of the next versions of Office and SQL Server "Kilimanjaro". Due to this flurry of activity, and the global economic constraints to travel budgets worldwide, we are moving the BI conference to a bi-annual event, with the next conference scheduled in Seattle on October, 2010. The next BI Conference scheduled for October 2009 will be moved to October 2010 in Seattle, WA, and all further BI Conferences will be held every second year on an ongoing basis. For 2009, Microsoft Business Intelligence solutions and capabilities will be covered at the SharePoint Conference (October 2009, Las Vegas, NV) and PASS Summit Unite 2009 (November 2009, Seattle, WA). Customers and partners who are more focused on building out the BI platform will want to attend PASS Unite, whereas people focused on information delivery will want to attend the SharePoint conference. We will be crafting the content to be consistent but targeted at both events. If you have any further questions, please contact askBIC@microsoft.com.
Resources The History of Business Intelligence In the spirit of trying something new, we've put together a short video presentation on what Business Intelligence is and some thoughts on where we've been, where we are going, and why should you care. How would you describe a topic like BI to your mom? Let us know what you think. Now if I could only get my mom to use a computer... Read the report
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