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The latest Microsoft business intelligence (BI) strategy is to use the tools found in Microsoft Office, SharePoint Server and Microsoft Office Excel —and the scalable MS SQL Server BI platform —to deliver BI to anyone in any organization.

This strategy enables customers to deploy complete BI solutions through existing investments in these three key Microsoft products. Annata actively follows this line and helps its customers to get the most out of their investments in Microsoft software.

Recently Microsoft made the announcement that Office PerformancePoint Server will soon become PerformancePoint Services for SharePoint Server.

According to the Microsoft Partner Program:


"The Microsoft business intelligence (BI) strategy is to use the tools found in Microsoft Office SharePoint Server and Microsoft Office Excel —and the scalable Microsoft SQL Server business intelligence platform —to deliver BI to anyone in any organization. This strategy enables customers to deploy complete BI solutions through existing investments in these three key Microsoft products."

This means that Microsoft Office will act as the front end for Dynamics AX in the near future. This is positive news for many organizations that have already invested in a Microsoft environment. They can now buy into this 'BI for the masses' that Microsoft advocates. This direction has been bulding up for the past several years. It started with the release of Dynamics AX 4.0 and continued with release 5.0.

Brandon George, a Microsoft Dynamics AX blogger, wrote an interesting article about this new Microsoft strategy:

"With this new path, we can now really start to focus on using SQL Server's BI offerings with OLAP mixed with SharePoint and PerformancePoint Services for Dashboards, scorecards, KPI, and make Excel the front end for view and using this combined information to make Office Business Applications and Custom BI reports for customers. We also use this platform to enable our customers to create ad-hoc BI reports with much ease --- once all of this is in place." To read the whole article, follow the link below. 

Brandon George, http://dynamics-ax.blogspot.com/2009/02/dynamics-bi-bi-for-masses.html

If you would like information on BI for Dynamics AX and the Dynamics Platform, feel free to contact us at Annata.