Microsoft Business Intelligence

How Does Business Intelligence Work?

Business intelligence (BI) delivers on a simple promise: improved business performance by delivering better decision making throughout your entire organization. When you know that your insight into corporate data is sound, informed, and complete, you can trust every decision you make. With that level of confidence securely in hand, you can improve business performance, create competitive advantage, and achieve corporate objectives.

If you find it challenging to quickly, effectively, and economically get access to, analyze, report on, and share the information you need to achieve corporate objectives, we suggest you strongly consider business intelligence (BI). In particular, Microsoft Business Intelligence—a complete, fully integrated set of BI technologies that can help reduce the complexity of organizing and distributing information and lead to competitive advantages, overall better decisions, and an improved bottom line.

Microsoft BI is delivered through three layers or workloads: data warehousing, reporting and analysis, and performance management. These are designed to provide a consolidated, comprehensive data source and tools to help improve decision making. In our view, the promise of Microsoft BI is to help decision makers at all levels throughout your organization have confidence that their decisions support your company’s goals and initiatives.