Microsoft plans to take BI to the masses
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Microsoft plans to add XML tools to its Visual Studio .Net product that makes it easier to create Web services with access to information in data warehouses based on SQL Server databases. The company's bid to bring BI to more desktops (and in the process turn BI into a more Microsoft-compatible discipline) will be outlined tomorrow at Gartner Group's Business Intelligence Europe conference in Amsterdam by Bill Baker, Microsoft's general manager SQL server business intelligence. The new XML tools will be part of the Visual Studio to be launched on February 13th and will be available on the Web. "Users will be able to build very quick Web services around stored procedures in the database, for example to show the most common customer problems, and expose these on a Web page," said Baker. He forsees groups setting up their own such pages to be used by staff working directly with customers.