M-Reports Selected as Award Finalist

Microsoft has selected U-M’s M-Reports as a finalist for its second annual "Pervasive BI & Performance Management Award." The award is designed to recognize organizations that have been successful in driving widespread use of the Microsoft BI offering.

M-Reports is an online reporting environment that delivers management reports in a customizable, intuitive user interface. University decision-makers use the application to efficiently process real-time information in order to reduce risk and recognize trends which may have otherwise gone unidentified.

M-Reports was one of the first projects on campus to use Microsoft .NET technology and the Microsoft Business Intelligence toolset to create a dimensional model of data. This OLAP technology allows for instant data retrieval– a vast improvement from the 20 minutes it used to take to run a single report.

Finalists were honored at the Microsoft BI Conference in Seattle on October 8. To learn more about M-Reports, view a demo and visit the U-M Business Intelligence Web site.