Database Application Development | Data Warehousing

Mission Critical Confidence

Required 9s and protection
Deliver required uptime and data protection, server to cloud without wasting time and money.
- Help reduce planned and unplanned downtime with the new integrated high availability and disaster recovery solution, SQL Server AlwaysOn.
- Achieve maximum application availability and data protection with options to configure active, multiple secondaries and ability to quickly failover and recover applications.
Blazing-fast performance
Gain breakthrough and predictable performance backed by industry-leading benchmarks.
- Bet on a trusted platform that continuously leads in industry-relevant TPC-E, TPC-H and real-world application performance benchmarks. Release over release SQL Server is SAP-certified to run some of the industry's most demanding workloads.
- Significantly boost query performance by up to ~10x for star join and similar queries with the new ColumnStore Index.
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Customer Stories

"Our tests showed that SQL Server 2012 will give us much higher availability, and we will definitely decrease downtime for our customer applications. This improvement will positively affect our customers."

Wilson Yoshio Okamoto
IT Manager, Banco Bradesco

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Breakthrough Insight

Rapid data discovery
Empower end users with new insights through rapid data exploration and visualization.
- Discover new insights at the speed of thought with Power View, a highly interactive, familiar browser-based data exploration, visualization, and presentation experience for users of all levels.
- Empower users of all levels to access and mash-up data from virtually any source, create compelling reports and analytical applications, and easily collaborate and share insights using familiar tools with PowerPivot for Microsoft Excel 2010 and Microsoft SharePoint 2010.
Managed self-service BI
Enable users with self-service BI while gaining better monitoring and management capabilities for IT.
- Offload IT tasks and reduce support requests with self-service analytics tools, like Power View and PowerPivot that scale to thousands across the organization.
- Balance the need to monitor, manage, and govern the data and analytics end users create with IT dashboards and controls that help IT monitor end user activity, data source usage, and gather performance metrics from servers.
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Customer Stories

"By deploying a Microsoft BI solution based on SQL Server 2012 and Power View, we save 160 hours each month generating just one of our key reports."

Andy Drooker
Director of Emerging Platforms, The Weather Channel

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Cloud On Your Terms

Scale on demand
Scale on demand with flexible and hybrid deployment options on your terms from server to cloud.
- Gain operational flexibility with proven Microsoft cloud offerings, private or public, that deliver interoperable deployment options with SQL Server 2012.
- Break free and scale beyond the constraints of any one deployment environment by taking advantage of Hybrid IT opportunities with a common architecture that spans traditional servers, appliances and the cloud.
Extend any data, virtually anywhere
Extend the reach of data virtually anywhere across server and/or cloud with expansive developer technologies.
- Enable new scenarios with Windows Azure SQL Database Data Sync, a cloud service that provides bi-directional data synchronization between databases across datacenter and cloud.
- Provide a consistent and open data-feed to power multiple user experiences across the web, devices, and desktop with OData, an open protocol built on widely used web standards.
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Customer Stories

"We are really excited about the BI roadmap at Microsoft. The more we hear from analysts and customers, the more we think that Microsoft is doing a great job of evolving its BI tool stack."

Sriram Papani
Senior Vice President, Mahindra Satyam