Business Analytics Guides for Microsoft SI Partners
Business analytics, including data warehousing, BI, and data integration, is a rapidly evolving space. To help its SI partners in this area, Microsoft hired me to write a couple of guides:
- Selling Projects on the Microsoft Business Analytics Platform: A Perspective for Systems Integrators takes a big-picture look at the technologies Microsoft provides here. It also categorizes and describes the typical kinds of projects that SIs can sell on the Microsoft platform.
- Creating Packaged IP for Business Analytics Projects: A Perspective for Systems Integrators examines various categories of packaged IP, including reusable frameworks, customizable solutions, and Software as a Service (SaaS) applications. The paper then looks at when and why business analytics SIs should consider creating packaged IP.