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SQL Server 2005


SQL Server 2005
Watch this informative product demonstration to learn about the features and benefits of SQL Server 2005.

Microsoft SQL Server 2005 is the foundation of Microsoft business intelligence technologies. It provides a robust, scalable, and enterprise-ready platform to enable the delivery of critical business intelligence information to workers across your entire organization.

SQL Server 2005 can help you integrate multiple data sources quickly, provide complex business analytics, and write, manage, and deliver rich reports to help your organization gain greater insight and achieve faster results.

With SQL Server 2005, you can:

  • Build and deploy enterprise applications that are more scalable, reliable, and secure.
  • Maximize information technology productivity by reducing the complexity of creating, deploying, and managing database applications.
  • Empower developers through a rich, flexible, and modern development environment.
  • Share data across multiple platforms, applications, and devices.
  • Deliver robust, integrated business intelligence solutions that drive informed business decisions and increase productivity across your organization.
  • Control costs without sacrificing performance, availability, or scalability.

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Collect, manage, and disseminate information from a single location — with a SQL Server data warehouse.

SQL Server relational data warehousing functionality can provide your organization with a central location for storing data and maintaining all your important historical and current business information. It can give you an integrated view of your data that is cleansed, transformed, and standardized so you can trust the quality of the information you receive. You can build a custom view of data to support a specific business purposes or employee needs.

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Enrich data and build complex business analytics — with SQL Server Analysis Services.

Microsoft SQL Server Analysis Services is an online analytical processing (OLAP) engine and data mining platform that provides a single version of truth for your reports, spreadsheets, key performance indicators (KPIs), and analytical applications. It provides a consolidated view across all business dimensions, enabling insight into the key drivers that impact your business.

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Write, manage, and deliver rich server-based reports — with SQL Server Reporting Services.

Microsoft SQL Server Reporting Services is a comprehensive, managed reporting solution that enables you to create, personalize, manage, and deliver reports from different data sources. Whether you choose traditional paper-based, interactive, Web-based, embedded, or ad hoc formatting for them, your reports will provide valuable insight into where your business is heading.

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Integrate multiple data sources quickly — with SQL Server Integration Services.

Microsoft SQL Server Integration Services helps you easily and quickly integrate data from any source. It is designed to perform complex data integration, transformation, and synthesis at high speeds and in a continuous environment for large data volumes. Integration Services can help you easily build, manage, and deploy solutions that bring your data under control in a consolidated, centralized, and managed environment for a holistic view of your business.

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