SQL Server 2005/2008 – A BI Solution Framework
SQL Server 2005/2008, a complete BI solution framework, delivers both comprehensive data management and integrated business intelligence for data integration (Integration Services - SSIS), analysis (Analysis Services - SSAS), and reporting (Reporting Services – SSRS). This ensures that business leaders can manage their data to achieve insight and make better decisions, faster. A key component to this strategy is the Microsoft Office System, the interface most end users use to analyze business data. SQL Server 2005/2008 also delivers the highest performance, availability, and security to run the most demanding applications with native data encryption, secure default settings, and password policy enforcement.
- High availability
- Reliability
- Security
- Ease of use
- Self-managing systems
- Integrated business intelligence
- Ad-hoc reporting
- Lowest total cost of ownership
- More automation of routine tasks
- Business intelligence included in SQL Server license for SQL 2005/2008
- Microsoft Office interface
- Developer productivity
- Native XML
- Enterprise extract, transform, and load (ETL) and deep data mining
