Business Intelligence & Microsoft
Business intelligence (BI) is central to today’s quest to create the agile, customer-centric organisation. However traditional BI systems such as those from Business Objects and Cognos are complex, costly and only useful to specialist business analysts. This inflexibility means that by the time information is made available to the business it is out of date and ineffective. Real business decision makers miss out.
As the volume of data stored grows exponentially, there is an ever increasing need for business people (not just analysts) to have ready access to corporate information. They also need the ability to interact with information to help make informed business decisions. Current tools on the market make this very difficult to achieve due to their complexity and expensive end user licensing models.
Organisations need flexible tools that bring information to the masses – in a straightforward, easy to use manner. Previously this was impossible, but the evolution of SQL Server 2000 and now the launch of Microsoft SQL Server 2005 has finally provided a bedrock for cost-effective, scalable and enterprise wide BI.
RSinteract is an essential value-add to the Microsoft SQL Server Business Intelligence infrastructure. Integrated deeply with the Reporting Services component of SQL Server, it allows business users to browse corporate data interactively, produce their own reports and make them available to others – all via a standard web browser. Training requirements are virtually nil – anyone who can use Excel to a basic level will find RSinteract similarly, if not more, intuitive.
