Are You (Business) Intelligent?
by Ben Carlton
May 15, 2008
Business Intelligence, or BI to the acronymically savvy, is the buzzword of buzzwords these days. But is it all smoke and no fire? It seems not; the promise of BI is being trumpeted from all sectors of industry. The future of BI is bright and seems only to be getting brighter.
Microsoft's latest venture into the BI arena is Microsoft Office PerformancePoint Server 2007. PerformancePoint is the progeny of Microsoft's prior BI tool, Microsoft Office Business Scorecard Manager, and the recent Microsoft acquisition, ProClarity. PerformancePoint is the analytic complement to the other tools comprising the Microsoft BI platform: Excel, SharePoint Server, and SQL Server. Using PerformancePoint, analysts can construct information-rich dashboards, drawing data from Excel, SQL and several other types of data sources. These dashboards can then be published to a SharePoint site for wider visibility.
Since we at IDV Solutions have chosen to make SharePoint integration a priority with regard to our Visual Fusion Suite, it makes perfect sense for us to seek out ways to leverage the BI capabilities of PerformancePoint to create solutions which meet our clients' evolving needs. Visual Fusion Suite combined with PerformancePoint would permit users to analyze performance on an asset-by-asset basis while providing a geospatial context for that data. The BI-enabled visual composite application is certainly a force to be reckoned with.
Stay tuned for more developments to come!
by Ben Carlton
May 15, 2008
Business Intelligence, or BI to the acronymically savvy, is the buzzword of buzzwords these days. But is it all smoke and no fire? It seems not; the promise of BI is being trumpeted from all sectors of industry. The future of BI is bright and seems only to be getting brighter.
Microsoft's latest venture into the BI arena is Microsoft Office PerformancePoint Server 2007. PerformancePoint is the progeny of Microsoft's prior BI tool, Microsoft Office Business Scorecard Manager, and the recent Microsoft acquisition, ProClarity. PerformancePoint is the analytic complement to the other tools comprising the Microsoft BI platform: Excel, SharePoint Server, and SQL Server. Using PerformancePoint, analysts can construct information-rich dashboards, drawing data from Excel, SQL and several other types of data sources. These dashboards can then be published to a SharePoint site for wider visibility.
Since we at IDV Solutions have chosen to make SharePoint integration a priority with regard to our Visual Fusion Suite, it makes perfect sense for us to seek out ways to leverage the BI capabilities of PerformancePoint to create solutions which meet our clients' evolving needs. Visual Fusion Suite combined with PerformancePoint would permit users to analyze performance on an asset-by-asset basis while providing a geospatial context for that data. The BI-enabled visual composite application is certainly a force to be reckoned with.
Stay tuned for more developments to come!
