Improve business insight and effectively monitor business drivers, empower better informed decisions throughout the organization, and proactively respond to important business events with a SharePoint empowered digital dasbhoard.

• Unlock business data. The Business Data Catalog enables structured data from line-of-business applications to be integrated into Office SharePoint Server 2007. Centrally managed connections to back-end systems can be defined once and then reused by end-users to access back-end data without writing any code — easily making business data part of portal content.

• Get enhanced interoperability support. Office SharePoint Server 2007 is built on a scalable architecture that enables integration with existing systems and provides the flexibility to incorporate new non-Microsoft IT investments.

• Present business-critical information in one central location. Create live, interactive business intelligence (BI) portals that assemble and display business information from disparate sources. Centralized Report Center sites give users a single place to find the latest spreadsheets, reports, or KPIs.

• Share business data broadly while helping to protect sensitive information. Use Microsoft Office Excel spreadsheets from a Web browser to maintain and efficiently share one centralized and up-to-date version of information while helping to protect any sensitive or proprietary information embedded in documents (such as financial models).