Unwilling to cede any portion of the the enterprise software market to its competitors, Microsoft Corp. is pushing into the business intelligence space with a new offering designed to help customers get more out of their investments in Office.
The Redmond, Wash., company last week announced that its Microsoft Office Business Scorecard Manager 2005 will be available in November. This is a new, server-based business scorecarding application that takes advantage of the Office system and extends the SQL Server platform to help enterprises deploy personalized scorecards to employees so they can track key performance indicators against goals.
Jeff Raikes, president of the Microsoft Business Division, said the server will cost $5,000 and the CAL (Client Access License) will go for $175 per user. "This is just a fraction of the cost of comparable solutions," Raikes said during a Web conference.
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