today, .net developers are about to experience a perfect storm: data warehouses are maturing and now contain relatively high quality data. microsoft is offering perhaps the most elegant, and certainly the lowest cost platform upon which to develop bi solutions. major world economies are improving and bi investments such as performance management and sarbanes-oxley are again high on corporate wish lists. value-add technologies such as visualization are now available to enhance the microsoft bi platform with significant value for mainstream business users. this emerging market opportunity includes "business visualization" solutions that enable people to see and understand information in new and ever more powerful ways. some call it visual bi. many call it the next wave of innovation since it completely extends microsofts platform. nearly all recognize the opportunity to differentiate and deliver real value by creating cost-effective solutions that help masses of people quickly make accurate, fact-based decisions.
why business visualization?
we are all familiar with graphical ways of showing data. bar charts, pie charts, scatter plots and other display... 下一页