Content type: Thought Leadership

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Empower Users with Self Service BI 

Written by Ashvini Sharma, Principal Program Manager Lead, Microsoft Corp. SQL Server 2008 R2 empowers business users to create and share rich, compelling BI solutions through familiar tools such as Excel 2010 and SharePoint 2010. While we’ve mentioned PowerPivot in the past, this post describes the overarching themes.
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Guest Blogger: Adrian Simays, Technical Architect, EMC Microsoft Alliance 

While there are several exciting new features included in SQL Server 2008 R2 including  PowerPivot for Sharepoint and Excel, Master Data Services for data consistency and StreamInsight for processing high volumes of event stream data, what I am most excited about isn’t a core new feature but one of two new editions that are being introduced – SQL Server 2008 R2 Parallel Data Warehouse (PDW).
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The recommended availability platform for SQL Server: Stratus ftServer 

  Not your father’s fault tolerant server Partner blog post from Peter Cook, Director of Global Alliances, Stratus “The latest SQL Server technology delivers a robust infrastructure to support business-critical applications and to scale with growing business demands,” said Claude Lorenson, director of SQL Server marketing at Microsoft Corp.
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Learn More about StreamInsight 

Hi! I’m Roman and I been working on a really cool piece of technology in SQL Server 2008 R2. Maybe you have heard of it? It has generated a lot of buzz and interest during its CTP phase. It’s called StreamInsight, Microsoft’s platform for Complex Event Processing.
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Tom Casey Chats with SQL Server Magazine 

Mr. Tom Casey is featured on the April 2010 cover of SQL Server magazine. He is the highlight of Sheila Molnar’s feature article, entitled Tom Casey on Microsoft’s BI Strategy. A quote from the interview: “The consumers of BI, the IT professionals that put the systems and infrastructure together, and the developers and analysts who build the solutions that people consume.
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Thirsty for more Microsoft Codename “Dallas” Info? 

A couple weeks back, our SQL Server Sequence question of the week was “Microsoft code name ‘Dallas,’ what kind of data does it allow me to access and combine with my own data for rich analysis and reporting?” Maybe you got the answer right. Maybe you didn’t. Maybe you want to learn more about “Dallas.
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New PHP Blog from Brian Swan 

My name is Brian Swan. I’m a fan of both PHP and Microsoft technologies, and I work in the  SQL Server organization here at Microsoft as a content publisher. I’ve started a new blog, http://blogs.msdn.com/brian_swan, to follow Microsoft’s endeavors into PHP interoperability and to provide PHP developers with technical content that helps them write PHP applications using Microsoft technologies. Sounds interesting, right?
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Microsoft’s CIO Tony Scott, talks about the role of CIO and technology trends 

As CIOs and companies look back at 2009 and forward to the opportunities and challenges in 2010, Microsoft’s CIO Tony Scott shares his thoughts in both a written piece and a video interview.  Tony talks about how Microsoft has cut costs and utilized technologies such as Windows 7, virtualization, cloud computing, unified communications and more.
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Microsoft and HP strengthen 25 year partnership 

HP and Microsoft Corp. today announced an agreement to expand on their 25-year partnership with a $250 million investment that will simplify technology environments. The companies plan to deliver new solutions built on a next-generation infrastructure-to-application model, advancing cloud computing by speeding application implementation, eliminating management complexities and automating manual processes to lower the overall costs of IT.
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Tom Casey PASS Twitterview 

Today at the PASS 2009 Summit the spotlight was on business intelligence (BI) with a keynote from Tom Casey, general manager, SQL Server BI at Microsoft. Tom noted during his keynote that more than 30 percent of PASS attendees this year noted BI as a priority track.