Title: Business Intelligence get the Microsoft Treatment

Author: Rick Whiting

Publicaton: Information Week

Issue: 1093

Date Published: June 12, 2006

Summary: Microsoft is making PowerPoint better by making it a performance management and business scorecard application. Also now PowerPoint will be a focal point for Microsoft's business intelligence.

Title: Microsoft Footprint Grows in Business Intelligence

Author: Aaron Ricadela

Publication: Information Week

Issue: 1061

Date Published: October 25, 2005

Summary: Discusses Microsoft's release of the program Business Scorecard Manager that they will sell for cheaper than other companies will making them the best seller on the market.  This is again relevant to them trying to remain the biggest company involved with business intelligence this is why microsoft has been so succesful.