Importance of Business Intelligence

With enormous volumes of data everywhere in the systems, it's absolutely imperative to access relevant business data in order to make informed decisions. Business Intelligence is absolutely critical in helping organizations of all sizes to meet their short and long-term strategic goals.

The Microsoft Business Intelligence story

Microsoft has several Business Intelligence tools and applications with BI features, each of which is important to understand as we decide what will work best for the situation we have at hand. The BI tools we use depend on the specific problems we are trying to solve. Our daily business activities have associated information and insights that emerge in three main areas of Business Intelligence—personal, team, and organizational. There will be overlap across these areas—for example, a company's employees may use Office Excel and Excel Services in Office SharePoint Server to make relevant business decisions at the corporate level...