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Business Intelligence

Redefining Pervasive Insight

SQL Server 2008 Business Intelligence platform provides a scalable business intelligence (BI) platform optimized for data integration, reporting, and analysis, enabling organizations to deliver intelligence where users want it.
  • Unlock your data

    Use the enterprise-scale data warehouse platform of SQL Server 2008 to efficiently
    unlock data from multiple sources and efficiently manage a unified storage for all of your business data.

  • Deliver relevant information

    Use powerful wizards and innovative design tools for building integration, reporting,
    and analysis solutions within a single environment,  and enjoy the increased developer productivity and faster capitalization on new analysis and reporting capabilities.

  • Drive actionable insight

    Deliver a rich, personalized user experience, enabling more users throughout the organization to drive action from the insight they gain through an extensible  and embeddable architecture that is optimized for Microsoft Office interoperability.

Spotlight

Predictive Analysis

Empower users with actionable insight using advanced data mining technologies.

Predictive Analysis

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Top New Features

  • Create high-performance Analysis Services solutions with optimized cube designers, subspace computation, and MOLAP-enabled writeback capabilities. Watch the short demo.

  • Implement enterprise-scale Reporting Services solutions through new on-demand processing and instance-based rendering.

  • Build flexible and effective reports with the new Tablix data structure and rich formatting capabilities. Watch the short demo.

  • Expand reach, and empower more users through optimized integration with the 2007 Microsoft Office system.

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