Recognized as one of the leaders in Business Intelligence (BI) by IT research agency Gartner, Microsoft delivers a complete and integrated Business Intelligence and Performance Management solution. Microsoft's vision is to provide business insights to all employees, thus enabling better, faster and more relevant decisions. Microsoft offers the complete BI continuum, from enterprise scalable BI to personal self-service BI.
 
Our current Solution Stack look like this:

SQL Server 2008 R2

The trusted, scalable BI platform. It contains all the necessary tools to build a complete data warehouse and enables web-based reporting. It includes:

• SQL Server RDBMS (the database) - well suited for data warehousing
• SQL Server Integration Services (SSIS) - the ETL tool
• SQL Server Analysis Services (SSAS) - the multidimensional modeling tool to build cubes
• SQL Server Reporting Services (SSRS) - to build web-based reports
• Master Data Services, for those who need to maintain master data needed by the data warehouse and BI
• Data Mining with different built-in algorithms, to easily create models for predictive analysis

Microsoft Office 2010

The classic office suite to access the BI platform, delivering a familiar interface for analysis, data exploration, data visualization and self-service access.

• Excel 2010 provides native connectivity to the Microsoft BI cube
• Excel 2010 also offers PowerPivot – Microsoft’s self-service BI solution – to create insights into large amounts of data without having to build a data warehouse

Microsoft SharePoint 2010

The well-known, web-based collaborative platform.

• set up a collaborative BI platform, by integrating all BI content into SharePoint

• create, manage and share content using different types of libraries
• provide user-friendly, shareable data sets for business users
• create dashboards with the built-in PerformancePoint services and use the decomposition tree for data exploration
• use PowerPivot for self-service BI
• create strategy maps with Visio Services