Enterprises dealing with a complex global economy must become more nimble and flexible to compete in the future. To do so, they must become dynamic enterprises, which means that they must integrate and simplify their information technology (IT), making it highly responsive to real-time business needs. IDC calls such an IT configuration dynamic IT, which requires integrated and coherent data and operations based on an event-driven architecture (EDA). Read this IDC white paper that emphasizes how the enterprise's database management system plays a pivotal role in building such an architecture, and how SQL Server 2005 is well positioned to serve as that key technology.
Included in this document:
| • | Situation Overview |
| • | Emerging Trends in Dynamic IT |
| • | Microsoft SQL Server 2005 |
| • | Future Outlook |
| • | Challenges/Opportunities |