Where Business Intelligence starts
“The difference between surviving and not; between thriving and not; often is how fast you can make the right decision. The answer from Microsoft is pretty straightforward. we deliver a rich and sound data foundation, with Microsoft SQL Server 2008 underlying everything we do. And then, we’re gonna reach users “where they live every day”—out in Microsoft Office—so they can get the value from a familiar interface, and deliver Business Intelligence right to those users, so that they can collaborate and work together. And that’s the key to unlocking this.”
“People have islands of data in their organization, and they need a platform that provides the ‘fabric’ that really links it all together, and makes it more valuable than the sum of its parts. That’s what SQL Server 2008 is about.”
“I’m very excited about the leading-edge of what we’re doing: the combination of Office 2010 and SQL Server 2008 R2, our Application and Multi-Server Administration advancement, and policy-based or declarative management infrastructures. And then, we’ve focused on the fundamentals again. For example, the ability to take advantage of hardware advancements, and move beyond what was a 64 logical processor limitation that we had previously, to support 256 processors.”
Top SQL Server 2008 features
- Efficiently manages mission critical data, any place, any time, providing business insight to users at around one-third the cost of Oracle.*
- Works with your existing IT systems, and with Oracle, DB2, SAP and NetWeaver data
- Cuts admin time with policy-based management
- Helps lower costs through server consolidation and virtualization
- Works with familiar tools like Microsoft Office and Microsoft SharePoint
- Enables more efficient storage of data through compression
