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SQL Server 2005 BI Screencasts and new SQL Server 2008 BI Screencasts are now found in one place.
Successful and effective business intelligence (BI) solutions must be comprehensive, secure, and integrated as well as available all day, every day. Find out more about how Microsoft Business Intelligence can help your organizations make better, more relevant decisions faster.
See an overview of different ways to analyze business intelligence data by using SQL Server 2005 Reporting Services, Microsoft SharePoint Portal Server, and the Microsoft Business Scorecard Manager 2005.
This official Microsoft study guide is designed to help you make the most of your study time by enabling you to work at your own pace through a series of lessons and reviews that fully cover each exam objective.
SQL Server 2005 SP2 offers a wealth of new enhancements that will greatly impact organizations’ ability to deliver business insight where users want it. Read this white paper to learn about the new features available in SQL Server 2005 SP2 and the 2007 Microsoft Office System. These features offer optimized interoperability, enabling organizations to deliver powerful yet affordable business insight to every information worker.
Learn more about the tight integration of the Microsoft SQL Server 2005 platform, Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007, and Microsoft Office Business Scorecard Manager 2005 as a BI solution for your business.
This white paper gives an overview of the enhancements to business intelligence solutions provided by Microsoft SQL Server 2005.
Webcasts on Data Warehousing and Business Intelligence
Over the past two decades, the Kimball Group pioneered a method for successfully defining and implementing the enterprise data warehouse and business intelligence system. The Kimball Group’s book The Microsoft Data Warehouse Toolkit, specifically applies this method to the SQL Server 2005 platform.
Watch webcasts where the experts from the Kimball Group demonstrate, step-by-step, how the SQL Server 2005 platform solves the tough issues you may face implementing Data Warehouses and Business Intelligence applications.
Recorded: June 6, 2006 Presenter: Warren Thornthwaite
Recorded: June 20, 2006Presenter: Joy Mundy
Recorded: July 11, 2006Presenter: Joy Mundy
Recorded: July 17, 2006 Presenter: Warren Thornthwaite
The new Business Intelligence & Data warehousing solutions, jointly engineered by Dell and Microsoft, include a stack of server hardware, storage arrays, operating system, database and analytics software, management, and reporting tools. The entire solution is based on the hardware and software many customers are using in their enterprise today.
Microsoft had another strong year in the BI tools market with the highest growth rate (28 percent) among the top 10 vendors. IDC reports the BI market showed growth of 11.5 percent in 2006 for a total market size of $6.25 billion in worldwide software revenue.
Get an overview of the business intelligence market, evaluate the performance of BI vendors worldwide, and learn how IDC assesses the Microsoft impact on the BI tools market.
Read more about the Microsoft BI strategy in this Computerworld article.
