A very familiar approach which we have adopted to drive customer penetration with the Business Intelligence (BI) platform is: low-cost bundling. BI capabilities are being built into and across many of Microsoft product lines including SQL Server, SharePoint and Office. It includes extensively:

• Microsoft Dynamics
• Office Excel
• Office Project
• Office SharePoint Server
• Office Visio
• SQL Server

SQL Server is incorporating reporting; extract, transform and load, or ETL; and online analytical-processing data mining. Dashboards, scorecards and social software enterprise-search capabilities are being added to SharePoint 2010. Office Excel now has more advanced ad hoc analysis, along with PowerPivot, which gives users the power to gather data to the desktop from different sources. It is an added advantage to state that its BI platform is particularly strong for production reporting for organizations with a Microsoft-centric infrastructure.

Its low-cost data warehouse offerings have catapulted Microsoft into a leadership position. Microsoft has launched SQL Server 2008 R2 Parallel Data Warehouse with massive parallel processing. We deliver and integrate core BI infrastructure which includes Integration Services (SSIS), Analysis Services (SSAS) and Reporting Services (SSRS).