Business Intelligence (BI) is a method of storing and presenting key enterprise data. Effective BI allows end users to use data to understand and provides the enterprise users with reliable, timely information (reporting), and prediction analysis (trends) for improved decision-making.
Most of the BI related projects are complex, involving business processes and developers to build a solution. These projects usually involve building a huge back-end data store, which is referred to as dimensions, cubes, and data mining models. The other aspect of the BI solution is to use appropriate user interfaces (UI), which must be configured or developed if necessary. To prevent further complexities when implementing solutions using BI concepts, Microsoft has placed new enhancements within the usability of services and tools for developers and administrators in SQL Server 2008 R2.
The success of BI solutions is due to the administration of core services that highlight the concerns on access...