Description
Business intelligence (BI) solutions enable your
organization to enjoy one true view of the
state of affairs, from Finance to HR to IT project
management and beyond.
SOLUTION SHEET: Microsoft’s Business Intelligence Suite
Microsoft’s Business Intelligence Suite
Delivers One-True View
Business intelligence (BI) solutions enable your
organization to enjoy “one true view” of the
state of affairs, from Finance to HR to IT project
management and beyond. This empowers your
organization to access and act on real-time
information delivered in the right format to the
right people.
The Microsoft answer to BI takes it a step further,
with a product suite that delivers this one true
view with cost-effective technology that leverages
in-place investments and ensures broad and
fast adoption by providing familiar tools and
functionality.
The Catapult Beneft
Catapult Systems employs a personalized
approach to ensure that solutions are
implemented and confgured optimally to address
your BI needs. Rather than make your business
adapt to the technology, Catapult consultants
frst gain an understanding of how the business
problem fts into how you operate.
Only then do we work to adapt the technology
to your business, helping you install, confgure,
set up, customize, extend and integrate the
appropriate technology. Our experience means
your organization reaps the maximum, most cost-
effective beneft from the Microsoft BI solution,
which consists of Microsoft SQL Server on the
backend, and Microsoft Offce Performance Point
Server on the front end.
Microsoft SQL Server
SQL Server provides an integrated database
management and analysis solution that makes
your enterprise data more manageable, your
developers more productive and your BI more
comprehensive. It reduces the complexity
of creating, deploying, managing and using
enterprise data and analytical applications
on platforms ranging from mobile devices
to enterprise data systems. Through a
comprehensive feature set, interoperability with
existing systems and automation of routine tasks,
SQL Server provides a complete data solution for
enterprises of all sizes.
SQL Server is packaged with the following
services that help IT create the framework for
comprehensive data analysis and reporting:
• SQL Server Integration Services (SSIS) is a data
integration platform that can integrate data from
any source.
• SQL Server Analysis Services (SSAS) provides
an integrated view of all business data as the
foundation for traditional reporting, online
analytical processing analysis, key performance
indicator scorecards and data mining.
• SQL Server Reporting Services (SSRS): solution
enables the creation, management and delivery of
paper-based and Webbased reports.
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©2013 Catapult Systems, LLC All rights reserved.
How can we help you?
1-800-528-6248 [email protected]
SOLUTION SHEET: Microsoft’s Business Intelligence Suite
Microsoft Offce
PerformancePoint Server
PerformancePoint Server (PPS) provides the
business user with an interface into the BI
foundation established via SQL Server and its
services, providing a user-friendly access to
querying the developed OLAP cubes.
By leveraging the infrastructure built on SQL
Server, PPS provides all of the functionality that is
needed for performance management including
scorecards, dashboards, management reporting,
analytics, planning, budgeting, forecasting and
consolidation.
With PerformancePoint Server:
• Executives can drive alignment across the
organization.
• Information workers can monitor, analyze
and plan activities with an integrated and
collaborative solution.
• IT managers can increase adoption and
compliance by enabling organizations
to better associate BI and corporate
performance.
The PPS suite encompasses Microsoft Offce
Business Scorecard Manager for scorecarding,
Microsoft ProClarity for dashboarding and
analytics, and Microsoft BizSharp, which provides
fnancial analysis, consolidations and trending
capabilities.
Personalized Web-based scorecards provide performance
information to business users
doc_784579619.pdf
Business intelligence (BI) solutions enable your
organization to enjoy one true view of the
state of affairs, from Finance to HR to IT project
management and beyond.
SOLUTION SHEET: Microsoft’s Business Intelligence Suite
Microsoft’s Business Intelligence Suite
Delivers One-True View
Business intelligence (BI) solutions enable your
organization to enjoy “one true view” of the
state of affairs, from Finance to HR to IT project
management and beyond. This empowers your
organization to access and act on real-time
information delivered in the right format to the
right people.
The Microsoft answer to BI takes it a step further,
with a product suite that delivers this one true
view with cost-effective technology that leverages
in-place investments and ensures broad and
fast adoption by providing familiar tools and
functionality.
The Catapult Beneft
Catapult Systems employs a personalized
approach to ensure that solutions are
implemented and confgured optimally to address
your BI needs. Rather than make your business
adapt to the technology, Catapult consultants
frst gain an understanding of how the business
problem fts into how you operate.
Only then do we work to adapt the technology
to your business, helping you install, confgure,
set up, customize, extend and integrate the
appropriate technology. Our experience means
your organization reaps the maximum, most cost-
effective beneft from the Microsoft BI solution,
which consists of Microsoft SQL Server on the
backend, and Microsoft Offce Performance Point
Server on the front end.
Microsoft SQL Server
SQL Server provides an integrated database
management and analysis solution that makes
your enterprise data more manageable, your
developers more productive and your BI more
comprehensive. It reduces the complexity
of creating, deploying, managing and using
enterprise data and analytical applications
on platforms ranging from mobile devices
to enterprise data systems. Through a
comprehensive feature set, interoperability with
existing systems and automation of routine tasks,
SQL Server provides a complete data solution for
enterprises of all sizes.
SQL Server is packaged with the following
services that help IT create the framework for
comprehensive data analysis and reporting:
• SQL Server Integration Services (SSIS) is a data
integration platform that can integrate data from
any source.
• SQL Server Analysis Services (SSAS) provides
an integrated view of all business data as the
foundation for traditional reporting, online
analytical processing analysis, key performance
indicator scorecards and data mining.
• SQL Server Reporting Services (SSRS): solution
enables the creation, management and delivery of
paper-based and Webbased reports.
2 |
©2013 Catapult Systems, LLC All rights reserved.
How can we help you?
1-800-528-6248 [email protected]
SOLUTION SHEET: Microsoft’s Business Intelligence Suite
Microsoft Offce
PerformancePoint Server
PerformancePoint Server (PPS) provides the
business user with an interface into the BI
foundation established via SQL Server and its
services, providing a user-friendly access to
querying the developed OLAP cubes.
By leveraging the infrastructure built on SQL
Server, PPS provides all of the functionality that is
needed for performance management including
scorecards, dashboards, management reporting,
analytics, planning, budgeting, forecasting and
consolidation.
With PerformancePoint Server:
• Executives can drive alignment across the
organization.
• Information workers can monitor, analyze
and plan activities with an integrated and
collaborative solution.
• IT managers can increase adoption and
compliance by enabling organizations
to better associate BI and corporate
performance.
The PPS suite encompasses Microsoft Offce
Business Scorecard Manager for scorecarding,
Microsoft ProClarity for dashboarding and
analytics, and Microsoft BizSharp, which provides
fnancial analysis, consolidations and trending
capabilities.
Personalized Web-based scorecards provide performance
information to business users
doc_784579619.pdf