Business Analytics: BI on a budget takes off

Microsoft customers can use existing applications and infrastructure to extract insights from company data. Ian Campbell reports.

A significant step in giving more firms access to business insights is Microsoft's development of a BI solution that uses a stack of its existing applications. The solution utilises SQL Server, Office/Excel and SharePoint - standard office tools already adopted by many businesses - and this one of the reasons why it is starting to take off in Ireland, says to Mark Bate, chief technical officer, Ergo. ''A lot of organisations have made ...