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Banking on Business Intelligence: Taking the Fast Route to Nirvana

Although most financial services institutions have made inroads into Business Intelligence (BI), there still is some way to go before the full promise of BI is fulfilled and it is embedded in the enterprise, used by all relevant employees. Microsoft for its part is doing everything it can to speed this process up. Its fast track: Excel.

Excel, used by a large portion of what Microsoft estimates are 500 million company users who have Office licenses, enables Microsoft to deliver pervasive BI and Performance Management to everyone at a fraction of the cost of other BI tools.
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Take Control of your Business: Manage and Mitigate Risks

Today, enterprises are facing a growing number of compliance regulations that require controls to be in place to mitigate risk across many processes within an organization. Areas that are gaining significant interest today are email and records management. Email is recognized as the de facto mission-critical application driving financial institutions today, where any loss or mismanagement is a potential serious issue.

With government regulations, audit requirements, and potential legal disputes, enterprises need their email systems to be properly archived and searchable so as not to hinder business continuity. Email messages need to be accessible 24/7.