There's nothing cheap about the BI capabilities of Office 12 when you have to upgrade all your desktops and many servers to get there, competing BI vendors say.
"Today, BI is too expensive, too hard to use and too inconvenient," proclaimed Jeff Raikes, president of Microsoft's Business Division, when the company on Monday talked up the business intelligence muscle it's putting into its upcoming Office 12 platform. "We think everyone deserves BI. They're just not able to get there today."
BI vendors are eager to pop that bubble. Following Microsoft's news of bargain-basement BI and the first-ever centralized server control of the insanely popular Excel spreadsheet, BI competitor Cognos was quick to point out that there's nothing cheap about Microsoft BI.
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