Microsoft is quickly emerging as the leading platform for providing business insight and analytics using familiar, easy-to-use tools. There are over 630,000 SQL Server-trained IT professionals; combined with thousands of certified partners and applications, you have a trusted, productive, and intelligent data platform that enables you to run your most demanding mission critical applications.

SQL Server provides deep analytics capabilities which take data from multiple data sources and reorganizes it into a multidimensional structure that makes navigating and analyzing data more intuitive and faster. Complex calculations, key performance indicators (KPIs), and data mining algorithms can be developed to identify trends, patterns, and predictive models in your data.

Microsoft BizTalk Server gives companies the ability to smoothly connect key business processes. It also allows easy linking between collaborative and transaction processes through integration with Microsoft Office SharePoint Server, which enables information-sharing among people, systems, and trading partners—without the need for custom code.

BizTalk Server has a broad suite of adapters to major line-of-business (LOB) systems (such as SAP, JD Edwards, PeopleSoft, and Siebel) , helping businesses to expose processes contained within existing applications and to integrate them with related processes and systems using the BizTalk Server process composition tools. With over 7,000 customers, including 90 percent of the Fortune Global 100, BizTalk Server is a trusted solution for SOA and Business Process Management.

Microsoft Visual Studio provides a collection of tightly-integrated software development tools that can help improve the way that software architects, software developers, database developers, designers, testers, and project managers collaborate to deliver robust, secure, and scalable applications.

Visual Studio is an integrated suite of role-based tools that helps enable greater communication and collaboration among software development teams. These project management tools are integrated with the Microsoft development and application platforms to support better planning, collaboration, communication, reporting, and process control during the complete development life cycle.

Microsoft Expression takes your operating environment and turns your Web-based applications into a user-focused experience. The professional design tools and innovative technologies of Expression give you the flexibility and freedom to bring your strategy to reality, integrating compelling user interfaces into your IT technology, amplifying your employees' productivity and efficiency, and improving the customer experience.

Microsoft Office SharePoint Server lets users leverage a set of common workflows, such as expense approvals, out of the box; or build custom workflows and use them in SharePoint. Your organization can facilitate collaboration, provide content management features, implement business processes, and supply access to information that is essential to organizational goals and processes. SharePoint integrates easily with your existing systems and the Application Platform family of products, enabling IT to deliver continuous alignment with business goals.

Microsoft Windows Server operating system is designed to power the next generation of networks, applications, and Web services. With Windows Server you can develop, deliver, and manage rich user experiences and applications, provide a highly secure network infrastructure, and increase technological efficiency and value within your organization. As part of the Microsoft Application Platform, Windows Server provides a proven platform that is scalable, secure, and robust.