Microsoft has been nothing if not voracious this year when it comes to acquiring promising young companies, and on Tuesday it snatched up yet another: Datazen Software, which focuses on mobile business intelligence.Datazen’s technology will complement Microsoft’s cloud-based Power BI business-analytics service with mobile BI capabilities that are designed for on-premises implementation and optimized for SQL Server, Kamal Hathi, Microsoft’s partner director for cloud and enterprise, wrote in a blog post announcing the news.
Born in 2002 as ComponentArt, Toronto-based Datazen provides business intelligence and data visualization on Windows, iOS and Android devices. It has enterprise customers around the globe, the company said. Over time, Microsoft plans to integrate Datazen’s technology with its Power BI tools to give customers “another hybrid bridge for their on-premises investments to the cloud,” Hathi said.
