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Business Intelligence is a process that seeks understanding for the purpose
of taking action to meet organizational objectives. This process should
sound familiar to most businesses. The news is that Business Intelligence
tools and enabling technologies are now more powerful and easier to use than
ever.
Microsoft Office,
the powerful suite of software applications including Word, Excel,
MapPoint and Data Analyzer, incorporates a basic set of Business
Intelligence tools. In addition, these tools can be integrated with your
existing web technologies through Office Web Components.
Microsoft SQL Server 2000,
including Analysis Services, makes possible a host of Business
Intelligence solutions when large amounts of data need to be analyzed. In
addition, you can utilize your Office software to embed documents, web
pages, and dashboards into a corporate intranet or portal, thereby enabling
easy access to data and the analysis tools necessary to make better
decisions faster.
Excel for Business Intelligence
– powerful tools to access, analyze, manage and create critical business
information.
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Use
Excel to work with enterprise data from within the familiar Microsoft
Office environment. Excel can be used as a primary data analysis component
of an enterprise Business Intelligence solution, empowering all workers to
participate in Business Intelligence analysis. You can access and analyze
interactive and multidimensional views of business data using the
Microsoft PivotTable® and Microsoft PivotChart® technology in Excel. In
addition, you can use refreshable queries in Excel to integrate real-time
data from the Web or any other source.
MapPoint for Business Intelligence
– visualize trends and opportunities by combining maps and demographics with
your own business data.
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MapPoint enables
detailed tracking of business metrics by geographic area and analysis of
demographic information so that analysts can identify and predict new
customers and better serve existing customers. MapPoint allows your data
to include a geographic or demographic dimension so that in-depth analysis
can be achieved using these informative criteria. Visualization is easily
achieved and makes information more illustrative and interesting than
spreadsheets, charts and graphs.
Data Analyzer for
Business Intelligence – make better business decisions by quickly and easily viewing,
analyzing and sharing business data.
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Data Analyzer complements the analysis features of the other Business
Intelligence tools by using an intuitive and innovative graphical analysis
interface and predefined queries. This interface helps reveal trends,
opportunities, and potential issues in your data at a glance. Use it to
get answers to your business questions and put the power of knowledge into
the hands of decision makers at all levels of your organization.
SQL
Server 2000 Analysis Services for Business Intelligence
– provide analytical access
to large volumes of data stored in a data warehouse.
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