Learn how to create high-performance Analysis Services solutions with optimized cube designers, subspace computation, and MOLAP-enabled writeback capabilities.
Microsoft SQL Server 2008 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 2008 can help you integrate data of different types from multiple sources quickly, perform complex business analytics, and create, manage, and deliver rich reports to help your organization gain greater insight and achieve faster results.
SQL Server 2008 is optimized to help you:
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Integrate, aggregate, and collect information from multiple heterogeneous data sources via a rich portfolio of native and non-native data source connectors.
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Create and manage scalable, high-performance data warehouses and data marts via tried and tested relational database management system (RDBMS) and online analytical processing (OLAP) technologies.
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Perform multi-dimensional and predictive analytics to produce business insights from aggregated information.
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Create and deploy enterprise-class managed and ad hoc reports on heterogeneous RDBMS and OLAP data sources.
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Empower more users through reach across multiple applications and devices and enhanced interoperability with the 2007 Microsoft Office system.
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