14 DAY TRIAL // Between May 9 and May 11, 2007, Microsoft will be the host of its first annual Business Intelligence Conference in Seattle at the Washington State Convention & Trade Center. The Redmond Company announced its plans to debut Annual BI Conferences via a press release, revealing that Chief Executive Officer Steve Ballmer and the President of the Microsoft Business Division, Jeff Raikes will present Microsoft vision and the road map for business intelligence.
"Business intelligence is no longer a complicated tool set made available only to a small number of advanced users and analysts in an organization, but rather a set of capabilities for all information workers to enhance decision support and productivity across the enterprise," said Raikes. "By ensuring strong interoperability between our Microsoft Office and SQL Server product lines and delivering business intelligence in the familiar applications that information workers use every day, Microsoft is poised to transform the industry and make business intelligence ubiquitous in the enterprise."
Microsoft revealed that it expects approximately 2,000 attendees and that Jeff Raikes, Ted Kummert, corporate vice president, Data and Storage Platforms Division and Steve Ballmer will deliver executive keynote addresses on Wednesday, Thursday and Friday.
Additionally, the Redmond Company will hand out its first ever Microsoft Business Intelligence awards. "The awards will recognize customers for their innovative and enterprise-scale BI solutions built on the Microsoft BI product offering. Customers and partners may submit their nomination via the submission form on the Microsoft Business Intelligence Conference 2007 Web site starting today. The deadline to submit entries is April 1, 2007. Microsoft is also currently accepting nominations for customer case study sessions at the conference."
A total of three technical tracks are planned for the duration of the conference, two of them focused on the BI front-end tools and performance management applications and the third addressing the business and end-user value of BI.