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• Aligned - to corporate strategy
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By now you've likely seen the announcement from Microsoft regarding its Business Intelligence platform, PerformancePoint. The company is reconfiguring its product mix and will now bundle PerformancePoint Server with SharePoint. We agree with Gartner's assessment that this is a smart move for Microsoft and has the potential to provide significant benefits for Microsoft --and our clients!

Here is what Microsoft said:
"Microsoft's strategy is to deliver BI to everyone in the organization through the broadly adopted tools of Microsoft Office SharePoint Server and Microsoft Office Excel, and build on the scalable Microsoft SQL Server BI platform. Based on customer feedback, we are moving the scorecard, dashboard, and analytic functionality from Microsoft Office PerformancePoint Server into Office SharePoint Server Enterprise, making these capabilities available throughout the organization at a lower total cost of ownership."

With this move, Microsoft is taking a major leap forward in terms of creating Collaborative Business Intelligence and making it affordable.

• BI solutions will be built and managed by business users, not IT, as demands grow for new information, faster
  
• Data Architects as we know them today will evolve into Information Architects, professionals who deeply understand the information lifecycle of the organization, from "birth to archival"
  
• BI becomes core to the business, like ERP and email today, becoming embedded in everyday processes, ...<< MORE >>