We
are pleased to be acknowledged by Gartner as a Leader in both the Business
Intelligence Platforms Magic Quadrant and the Data Warehouse Database
Management Systems Magic Quadrant for the third year in a row.
We are happy to see this type of
validation in our approach and strength of our technologies from the analyst
community. Moreover, we are pleased that the high level of satisfaction within
our existing Microsoft Business Intelligence customer community is called out
as influential. Our rankings on these two reports reflect, in part, the
quality and quantity of positive customer feedback Microsoft has received in
the customer survey portion of the evaluations. Focus on familiar, intuitive
user experiences delivered via a high quality, robust product families
customers already know and use today is key to making BI truly pervasive.
Microsoft
Business Intelligence delivers on the vision of “Pervasive Insight” by
re-defining who the average BI user is. By providing end user BI capabilities
through familiar Microsoft Office experiences such as SharePoint & Excel,
we empower an entirely new segment of business users to build and consume rich
BI solutions as part of their everyday work. Delivering the server-side capabilities
to enable this via SharePoint Server and SQL Server gives IT a common, quality
data foundation, feature rich collaborative decision making environment, and
empowers IT oversight and insight into what solutions are being built and who
is using them.
Building
on this success, we are excited to release our next wave of the Microsoft
Business Intelligence solution later this year. Microsoft Office 2010,
SharePoint 2010, and SQL Server 2008 R2 further evidence our commitment making
BI available to every organization and every user by introducing exciting new
innovations such as:
Managed self-service business intelligence: empowering a new class of
business users to build and share powerful BI solutions while still enabling IT
to monitor and manage end-user generated BI solutions through SQL Server
PowerPivot for Excel, and Report Builder 3.0. Check out http://www.microsoft.com/bi
to learn more!
Deeper integration with SharePoint Server: expanding traditional BI
scenarios with all the content and social capabilities available in SharePoint
to provide richer collaborative experiences across business communities and
organizations gain better insight and enable more informed decision making at
all levels.
A trusted and scalable platform: supporting data
consistency across heterogeneous business systems through Master Data Services,
enabling high-scale complex event stream processing through StreamInsight and
supporting scale-up scenarios for the largest available hardware (up to 256
logical processors).
SQL Server 2008 R2 Parallel Data Warehouse (formerly Project
code-named “Madison”) extending Microsoft’s leadership in data warehousing by
offering massive scalability for the 100+ terabyte data warehouse at low total
cost of ownership.
Gartner
predicts that the BI Platforms market will remain one of the fastest growing
software markets in large part because today’s competitive business climate
depends on the optimization of strategy and execution. Better insight and
oversight can be the difference maker between surviving and thriving. We keep
listening to our customers and working hard to help them put better business
intelligence in the hands of more decision makers at all levels of their
organization. It’s this focus on users and making BI accessible to everyone
that we believe differentiates Microsoft BI. Enabling everyone to make faster,
more relevant decisions is our mission. We appreciate the continued recognition
of the impact of our software in these reports. Above all, we value our
customers voice in helping shape and validate this approach.
Tom.
