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Product/Service Description
Microsoft Business Intelligence Technologies — Microsoft offers a broad set of business intelligence (BI) technologies that include:
Microsoft SQL Server® Enterprise Edition (2005/2008), which includes
Microsoft SQL Server Analysis Services for real-time what-if analysis via OLAP
Microsoft SQL Server Reporting Services for formatted and self-service reporting
Microsoft SQL Server Integration Services for Data Integration/ETL
Microsoft PerformancePoint™ Server for:
Interactive drill-down analysis and visualization of multidimensional data
Scorecarding, Dashboarding and Alerting
Budgeting and Planning
Microsoft Office® System - including Microsoft Office Excel® client and server for analysis and visualization; and Microsoft Office SharePoint Server for portal, search and document management Microsoft
Microsoft Windows Server®
Teradata EDW (MPP & SMP) fully supported on Windows®
Teradata applications running on Windows
.NET® Extensibility via Teradata .NET Data Provider (Visual Studio® 2005 Integration)
Business Intelligence Business Pains Addressed
Companies today need to provide their employees with reliable access to the information they need to make informed decisions so they can respond swiftly and appropriately to changing conditions that impact their business. These organizations have the need to deploy business intelligence quickly, easily and with minimal training required, without sacrificing performance, reliability or the ability to scale as their enterprise data grows. Microsoft BI technologies enable users to surface key business information contained within Teradata EDW via popular Office tools. Those who will be interested in the synergy between Teradata and Microsoft technologies are:
Customers looking for an easy-to-deploy, low-cost business intelligence solution with unparalleled performance and scalability
Customers seeking to unlock and deliver the valuable detailed and historical data to all employees in the enterprise Customers planning on rolling out cost effective BI-based solutions to all employees
Business users with requirements to access consistent and detailed data regardless of the delivery channel
Operational users with requirements to access real-time business data and business events
Joint Solutions Between Microsoft and Teradata
Combined technologies from Microsoft and Teradata provide a comprehensive, easy-to-use, high performance and very scalable business intelligence and data warehousing solution that enables customers to reduce cost and increase revenue by gaining valuable business insights from enterprise data, using familiar tools.
The combined solution set allows customers to standardize on two key technologies for analytics across the enterprise. Combining these best-of-breed technologies from two top-rated vendors gives the customer a low risk solution with best-in-class feature/functionality and low total cost of ownership. This enables organizations to deliver more intelligence to executive, analytical and operational BI users.
Benefits of Microsoft and Teradata Working Together
The joint Microsoft and Teradata BI solutions will enable customers to:
Leave the data where it resides
Leverage the power of the Teradata EDW for data-intensive workloads
Deploy Microsoft BI solutions for the masses
Key benefits for the joint solution:
Easier implementation of Microsoft BI solutions into Teradata EDW
Improved performance and scalability from Microsoft-Teradata integration
Faster availability and easier adoption of new Microsoft and Teradata feature releases, because of Teradata and Microsoft engineering collaboration
Delivery of key business data to the people best placed to leverage it, through their preferred productivity tools
Increased breadth and depth of data delivered to the business users and the front line workers
Reduced data latency between the time the data is captured and the time the data is delivered to the users
