What is Business Intelligence?

This definition that traditional analyst driven BI applications evolved, this is to include manifold initiatives to manage, measure, and improve the performance of teams, individuals, processes, and business units. Because of this, Microsoft offers Business intelligent devices that could give every employee access to the required data to make with informed plans and that to have the flexibility to work the way they do. Because of the extended definition of BI, Microsoft perceives insight and information flowing steadily among 3 main categories of business intellegence: personal, team, and organizational
Throughout the course of every business, the following inquiries should be asked. The functions of analyzing, monitoring, and planning delve to these questions.
• What happened?
• What is happening?
• Why?
• What will happen?
• What do we want to have happen?
Microsoft Office Performance Point Server 2007 offers applications, which help you plan, analyze, and monitor. This section explains the way Microsoft gives business intelligence.
The Microsoft Business Intelligence stack
BI is attained with the following actions and corresponding tools.
a. Provide quality data: BI is built on the reliable and scalable 2005 SQL Server platform with a great relational database system, SQL Server Analysis Services, SQL Server Integration Services, SQL Server data mining capabilities and SQL Server Reporting Services.
b. Get deeper insight and make possible better decision making: Analysis and Reporting are the abilities that permit you to get deeper insight from data.
c. Align decisions with business goals: Performance Point Server is a great application of performance management that offers the way to link executives, line of business managers, and individual contributors to any corporate strategy.