Microsoft ® Office 2007 Business Intelligence

Preface

Microsoft Office has been the standard against which all other integrated office products have been measured since 1995. Throughout the years, we've watched Office, as everyone now knows it, go from being a somewhat simplistic word processor and spreadsheet to include capabilities such as desktop publishing, sophisticated e-mail and schedule management, and full-featured numeric data management, to the point that many organizations cannot operate on a day-to-day basis without it.

When MS Office 2007 was announced, many of us wondered what else Microsoft could add that would make it worth upgrading to the next version. And then we discovered the new business intelligence features that have been integrated into the fabric of the world's ...