Briefs

By Hannah Smalltree, 4 Apr 2006, SearchDataManagement.com

In a bid to bolster its business intelligence (BI) platform, Microsoft plans to acquire an analytics company.

Microsoft said it will acquire analytics and visualization software company ProClarity Corp., based in Boise, Idaho. ProClarity develops analysis and visualization technologies that work in association with Microsoft SQL Server 2005, Microsoft Office Business Scorecard Manager 2005, and other elements of the Redmond software giant's BI platform. ProClarity is a longtime sales and development partner of Microsoft, and the two companies say they share more than 1,000 customers. The announcement was made on April 3; terms of the deal were not disclosed.

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