Seems my curiosity to see (well watch) the new roadmap for BI has been answered, see The BI Blog
Kind of sounds like a reporting server with no mention of real analytics, apart from Excel which I don't think counts. Maybe the news of all of this will reignite the market for an analytics tool for analysis services. The return of Panorama Novaview perhaps, who happen to be running a webinar on An Alternative BI Solution to Microsoft PerformancePoint
Chris Webb also raised some good points on Excel in his blog More thoughts on the death of PPS Planning
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You are right, Microsoft is giving us on the "power capabilities" and will focus on the lowest denominator. It is not going to be a full blown enterprise BI solution but rather BI features you can use in your portal and Office.
The fact that they fired all BI sales people is another proof that it is more than just changing the place where the features will live, it is about changing the amount of focus and resources they will put on an enterprise solution called BI.
You can read my thought here: http://www.panorama.com/blog/?p=129
let me know what you think.
Not sure I agree fully with that statement, I don't think MS has changed it's focus from moving away from BI. Just changed the product stack.
The announcement last October about project Gemini, proves they are still investing in BI. Although I don't know enough about the project, guessing it may very well fill the void for cube analytics.
Your blog does paint a bleak picture of MS BI, which at such an early stage of MS new roadmap is probably a little unfair, but understand the need for sales pitches. The MS BI solution as a whole is relatively good, it's just a shame they lost planning and a good analytic tool.
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