Business Intelligence (BI) is not a product but a term that covers a wide range of products that allow a manager to make better business decisions.
BI has changed over the years both in reach and formality - today a good BI system can present data on a wide variety of heterogeneous services in a robust and accessible manner. Hence, in most cases provision of BI is an IT infrastructure issue focused on getting key data to key people.
The new tools from Microsoft aim to provide an easy and robust means to spread the reach of BI to a wider community of users, whether based in web browsers or rich clients such as Excel.
Products covered include Excel 2007 (client), SQL/Analysis Services, Reporting Services and Excel Server.
This is a full day event, 9am - 5pm.
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