Once again Microsoft proved that they are good in business intelligence concepts. Microsoft is supposed to release a fall update in the starting December to new Xbox 360 dashboard. This will allow online players to now browse new friends and also encourage developing new contacts with online gaming friends.
This is well known business style of the organization to attract the potential users on the Internet and can be treated as beyond business intelligence concept.
Probably Microsoft evaluated the power of social networking after seeing some successful past examples and now going to prove the capabilities in the same field. Xbox will have all necessary features allowing online users to get different access to gaming.
A new feature called “Family Timer” is incorporated to limit the usage of children in the homes. This will be a good parental control system to make parents happy and to avoid the misuse of the whole concept by the unauthorized users.
Business Intelligence is used before launching the product and all level of users are considered as potential customers for social networking in gaming. The Microsoft windows Vista like family timer inspire some features. A recent study done on the same has shown the interest of 62 percentage parents towards its use in their homes.
Microsoft also approached towards partnership with Parent Teacher Association (PTA) to advocate for a balance approach towards the same and surely it will help them to make it more successful and business oriented.
