Summary

November 18, 2004 - Line-of-business workers in organizations now face inefficiencies and diminished effectiveness because of disjoint integration between Microsoft Office and server-based business intelligence applications. Export and cut-and-paste are inferior integration mechanisms between these two environments. Organizations are now actively spending their IT budget to streamline collection, processing, analysis and presentation of information. IT departments need to understand the various integration options available along with new alternatives on the horizon to minimize investments in sub-optimal integration approaches. Ventana Research recommends organizations re-assess their freelance use of Microsoft Office and evaluate how to streamline it into their enterprise computing BI efforts.