Office PerformancePoint Merging with SharePoint

Announced today, SharePoint is going to integrate PerformancePoint, and really expand on our BI (business intelligence) offerings.

Kurt DelBene said it best:

“PressPass: How will customers benefit from this decision?

DelBene: It really gets back to the notion of helping more people harness the data inside their organization. Customers have been asking for easier access. Shifting the monitoring and analytics capabilities to SharePoint is a step in that direction.

In conjunction with the scalability of the Microsoft SQL Server BI platform, this move will not only provide greater access to BI features, but also will deliver them alongside the search, collaboration and content management features most people are accustomed to using in SharePoint.

One of our partners, Hitachi Consulting, says that this approach of embedding BI into widely used business productivity tools will help more customers realize the benefits of BI. The benefits don’t stop with the customer, either, because this move helps partners such as Hitachi deliver greater value to their customers without requiring additional technology investments. “

You can read the entire press release at the Microsoft PressPass site.