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Let's talk about Business Intelligence ...
"Microsoft offers a competitive and expanding set of BI
and analytics capabilities, packaging and pricing that appeal to Microsoft
developers, its independent distributor channel, and now to business users
through enhanced BI and data discovery capabilities in Excel 2013".
Source:
Magic Quadrant for Business Intelligence and Analytics Platforms.
Gartner, Inc. February, 2013. ID:G00239854.
"...since the company's serious entry into the market
in 2000, Microsoft's BI market share has grown steadily to take the No. 3 spot
in 2011. With the new functionality added and planned for Microsoft Excel, we
expect Microsoft's market share growth to continue."
Source:
Magic Quadrant for Business Intelligence and Analytics Platforms.
Gartner, Inc. February, 2013. ID:G00239854.
"In the Magic Quadrant customer survey, more Microsoft
customers cite TCO and license cost as the No. 1 reasons for selecting Microsoft
as a BI vendor, as opposed to most other vendors in the survey. This has been
the case for each of the past six years in which Gartner has run the survey."
Source:
Magic Quadrant for Business Intelligence and Analytics Platforms.
Gartner, Inc. February, 2013. ID:G00239854.
"Microsoft's packaging strategy for BI and enterprise
pricing often makes it a compelling license cost value proposition for
organizations that want to deploy BI to a wider range of users, or that want to
lower overall BI portfolio license costs by using lower-cost BI tools for basic
BI functions."
Source:
Magic Quadrant for Business Intelligence and Analytics Platforms.
Gartner, Inc. February, 2013. ID:G00239854.
"OLAP continues to be a widely deployed capability of
the Microsoft BI platform, with more than 90% of Microsoft customers reporting
they use it. This is among the highest adoption compared with other vendors.
This success can be attributed to the packaging of Microsoft SQL Server Analysis
Services functionality, its use as an optimization layer in most Microsoft BI
deployments, and because of its optimizations with Microsoft front-end tools."
Source:
Magic Quadrant for Business Intelligence and Analytics Platforms.
Gartner, Inc. February, 2013. ID:G00239854.
"Above-average performance ratings suggest that
customers are happy with the in-memory improvements in SQL Server 2012 compared
with SQL Server 2008 R2."
Source:
Magic Quadrant for Business Intelligence and Analytics Platforms.
Gartner, Inc. February, 2013. ID:G00239854.
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