BI Details
What is Business Intelligence?
Business Intelligence is all about making better decisions, faster — getting the right information to the right people at the right time, in the right format. Companies need information workers to become real-time decision-makers, taking informed actions that directly reflect corporate strategy. Give your employees access to critical business data, enterprise-wide. The way organizations interact with and act on data at all levels has become key to success.
Reporting and Analysis
Get a comprehensive reporting and analysis solution that delivers powerful and cost effective business intelligence aimed at improving the speed and quality of decision making at all levels of an organization. Solutions like Microsoft SQL Server Reporting Services and the Microsoft Office Excel Add-in for SQL Server Analysis Services enable employees to use familiar and automated tools to access and analyze data and create sophisticated reports with speed and accuracy.
- Easy to Use Reporting Capabilities
- Integration with Analysis Services
- Multiple Data Sources in a Single Report
- Minimal End-User Training
Centralized Reporting
Organizations require a centralized way to create, manage, and deliver real-time reports. The Microsoft reporting services platform enables IT organizations to manage analysis and reporting, and provides developers with powerful tools for creating reports and deploying custom reporting solutions to individual users across an entire organization. Microsoft SQL Server Reporting Services enable business intelligence by:
• Supporting the entire reporting life cycle.
• Providing report delivery through a Web browser, in a Microsoft Office System program, or embedded within line-of-business applications.
• Allowing administrators to manage reports as Web services and publish on-demand or on a specified schedule.
Reporting Services-Full Reporting Life Cycle Support
SQL Server Reporting Services supports the full reporting life cycle, including:
• Report authoring. Report developers can create reports to be published to the Report Server using Microsoft or third-party design tools that use Report Definition Language (RDL), an XML-based industry standard used to define reports.
• Report management. Report definitions, folders, and resources are published and managed as a Web service. Managed reports can be executed either on demand or on a specified schedule, and are cached for consistency and performance.
• Report delivery. SQL Server Reporting Services supports both on-demand (pull) and event-based (push) delivery of reports. Users can view reports in a Web-based format or in e-mail.