i2 Technologies, Inc. announced it has furthered its strategic alliance with Microsoft Corp. to jointly develop i2 Intelligence, a supply chain analytics solution, on the Microsoft technology platform.

According to Arc Advisory Group, as a part of this alliance, i2 and Microsoft will jointly develop i2's world-class, supply chain management solutions on the Microsoft.NET Framework, integrating with the microsoft office System and a number of other key Microsoft technologies, including 32-bit and 64-bit versions of Microsoft Windows Server 2003, Microsoft SQL Server and Microsoft Office SharePoint Server. The i2 Intelligence solution will utilize the Microsoft Office suite as the primary user interface.

The collaboration brings together Microsoft Office PerformancePoint Server 2007, the Microsoft business intelligence (BI) technology and i2 new-generation supply chain management solutions to create an actionable BI and analytics solution that will provide businesses with the ability to better understand the impact of supply chain management decisions.