If you find it challenging to effectively access, analyze, forecast, report on, and share the information you need to achieve corporate objectives, consider Microsoft business intelligence (BI). We offer a complete, fully integrated set of BI technologies that can help reduce the complexity of organizing and distributing information, enable better business decisions, and improve your bottom line.

Most likely, your organization already uses these tools:

SQL Server is the foundation for Microsoft BI, providing the infrastructure to bring everything together through its integration, reporting, and analysis capabilities. Microsoft Excel is the world's No. 1 personal BI productivity tool. SharePoint Server offers team and organizational collaboration capabilities. PerformancePoint Server provides performance management capabilities for the entire organization.

Microsoft BI works the way your people want to work. It provides a full range of familiar tools that can address the entire spectrum - all of the people, data, and processes - of decision making.

Microsoft BI is delivered through three layers:

Data Warehousing: Give your users a way of finding the data they need in an easy-to-understand format that helps them make decisions. Microsoft SQL Server 2008 can help you improve your data process, store huge amounts of data, support high query loads, and scale to the largest enterprise needs..