posted on Thursday, May 18, 2006 8:43 AM by Knight_Reign

BI and EIM at Microsoft

I was excited to read Bill Gates' vision around BI and EIM for the next ten years as articulated in his latest executive mail entry.

It represents a comprehensive, orchestrated and unified strategy for building infrastructure and tools enterprises need in the information age.

I found his comment on the data store silo problem particularly compelling:

"One of the biggest barriers to information access in the enterprise is the fact that data is often stored in so many different repositories. This leads to painfully inefficient processes that force information workers to leave one application, logon to another, find a single piece of data and write it on a piece of paper, and then return to their original application, just to complete a simple task like sending an email to a customer. This is a significant drag on productivity. Microsoft’s goal is to deliver enterprise information access solutions that present information workers with a single, unified way to get at the information they need no matter where it resides without leaving the application they are currently working in so they can make smart decisions and take action with greater speed."

http://www.microsoft.com/mscorp/execmail/

Thanks

Universe.Earth.Software.Microsoft.Office.OBA.KirkHaselden

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