Increase Your Connectivity and Real-time Response for Critical Business Information

A scalable and integrated database platform can help companies of all sizes securely store and manage ever-increasing amounts of data from disparate sources. It can also help ensure that business-critical systems and applications stay up and running. In addition, IT complexity and total cost of ownership can be reduced through dramatic enhancements in administrative automation. To maximize the potential of employees, partners, and customers, everyone in an organization should be able to quickly find and access information.

When people have timely access to important information from a vast array of applications, systems, and tools, they can be more responsive to business opportunities. IT professionals and database administrators can maximize that access by using the Microsoft Application Platform to significantly reduce IT complexity and costs, efficiently manage information stored in heterogeneous data environments, and confidently run today's increasingly complex business applications.

The Microsoft Application Platform delivers a comprehensive and integrated data management and analysis solution that includes the following features:

• Scalability. With scalability advancements such as table partitioning, snapshot isolation, and 64-bit support, IT professionals can build and deploy the most demanding applications and significantly enhance query performance against large databases.
• Availability. IT professionals can minimize an organization's downtime and help to ensure that critical systems remain accessible and available with innovative, high-availability features such as database mirroring, failover clustering, and enhanced online operations.
• Manageability. Database administrators can focus on high-value tasks like database architecture while spending less time on routine database operations, with integrated management tools, expanded self-tuning capabilities, and a powerful new programming model.
• Built-in Business Intelligence. IT professionals can lower costs and increase productivity with the integration, analysis, and customizable reporting tools in SQL Server, such as SQL Server Report Packs for Microsoft Exchange Server and Microsoft Business Solutions.