Panorama Business Intelligence

In the last few days weâ€™ve been getting an overwhelming number of inbound inquiries about our offering on top of the Microsoft BI stack. I want to take this opportunity to provide some more inforatmion on the unique ways we bring together the power of MS BI with our own unique NovaView BI suite.

Panorama is a Microsoft partner for over 10 years now. Aside for the fact that we are the company behind the technology used for SQL Server Analysis Services, our strategy has always been to embrace and extend the functionality provided by Microsoft in SQL and Office.

Panorama provides today a complete BI solution that brings together:
- The power of the SQL 2008 platform as our main data engine,
- A powerful web based BI client that integrates natively into SharePoint 2007 with more than 10 different web parts
- A tight integration with Office 2007 (NovaView Sportlight),
- Excel integration (NovaView Office Add-on),
- PowerPoint 2007 integration (NovaView Office add-on),
- Reporting services integration for report creation and distribution through the NovaView product.

Our unique value proposition is our ability to serve the power-userâ€™s demands through NovaView powerful application while extending the reach to any information worker by share reports created with NovaView with Information Workers in Excel for analysis, Distribute powerful dashboards with KPI Gauges, advanced charts and scorecards in a collaborative SharePoint Dashboard and publish key metrics live inside any Office 2007 application.

By being the only ISV that is so tightly aligned with the Microsoft technology stack we can provide customer a Microsoft based solution that bring all the greatness of the Microsoft product line with the dedicated BI functionality customers are looking for when deploying an enterprise BI offering.

While I canâ€™t share too much at this point we have in our labs and on our whiteboards even more integration for the future products coming out from Microsoft. Betting on Panorama for BI ensures that customers enjoy the tools provided by Microsoft to make BI pervasive while keeping the powerful dedicated BI NovaView suite for the high end needs of BI usersâ€¦ all fully integrated for a comprehensive enterprise solution.