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Microsoft and XP3
Bringing Microsoft Analysis Services to the Front Lines of Business 
MSAS, Microsoft’s integrated data management and analysis software, enables organizations to manage mission-critical information and run today’s increasingly complex business applications. XP3 takes that information to the next level by putting the information in the hands of the business users – making the data accessible and the insights actionable.
XP3 extends the functionality of Microsoft Analysis Services on both the front and the back end. "Out of the box" integration between XP3 front-end tools and Microsoft Analysis Services gives users of XP3 the power to create and interact with visually stunning, data-driven presentations- right in PowerPoint, while XP3 Data Tools provide a flexible and intuitive framework to automatically create cubes in Analysis Services from any source of data.

Initiatives like Category Management, Fact-Based Selling and Executive Reviews become turn-key with XP3's ability to put any data into Analysis Services and flexibly put any Analysis Services data in the hands of business workers.
Industry Pain Points
- Enterprise data is not easily accessible to information workers in a familiar environment
- Creation of data-driven presentations is manual and repetitive work
- End-users do not have the tools to author data-driven content
- Best practices are not being developed or deployed in customer facing initiatives
- Key data sources are not in a central warehouse
Business Benefits
- Create and leverage enterprise efficiencies across data-driven presentations
- Expose a broad user-base to enterprise data in a familiar Microsoft Office environment
- Give executive and customer facing end-users tools to develop, propagate and utilize best practices across all data-driven presentations
- Maximize the value of any data source by easily generating and maintaining cubes in the industry leading OLAP platform - Microsoft Analysis Services
Solution
- Out-of-the-box connectivity to Microsoft Analysis Services on both the front- and back-end
- Intuitive end-user tools for updating and customizing data-driven presentations
- User-friendly authoring tools for data-driven content in Microsoft PowerPoint
- Powerful and easy-to-use tools for data extraction, warehousing, management and OLAP cube creation
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