Welcome
I am excited to inform you on the latest technologies that we have just released with Microsoft SQL Server 2012. We have listened to your feedback to make Microsoft SQL Server 2012 a comprehensive database server and information platform offering a complete set of enterprise-ready technologies and tools that help people derive the most value from information at the lowest total-cost-of-ownership. Enjoy high levels of performance, availability, and security; employ more productive management and development tools; and deliver pervasive insight with self-service business intelligence (BI).A complete and integrated platform, Microsoft SQL Server brings it all together to get more value out of existing IT skills and assets, increase the productivity and agility of IT departments, and quickly build flexible, innovative applications. We are delighted to provide you with the latest information on this major release and inform you on how we are evaluated alongside other database providers. Please read on and keep your feedback coming!
Gavriella Schuster
General Manager Server Business
Microsoft Corporation
- Magic Quadrant for Business Intelligence Platforms
- J. Hagerty | R. Sallam | J. Richardson
- 6 February 2012
- In 2011, business users continued to exert significant influence over BI decisions, often choosing data discovery products in addition to/as alternatives to traditional BI tools. An avalanche of new use cases, content types and interaction models expands the scope for tomorrow's BI platforms.
- Market Definition/Description
Business intelligence (BI) platforms enable all types of users – from IT staff to consultants to business users – to build applications that help organizations learn about and understand their business. Gartner defines a BI platform as a software platform that delivers the 14 capabilities listed below. These capabilities are organized into three categories of functionality: integration, information delivery and analysis. Information delivery is the core focus of most BI projects today, but we are seeing an increased interest in deployments of analysis to discover new insights, and in integration to implement those insights.
Microsoft Customers in Action
- Edgenet Case Study – Edgenet supports worldwide ecommerce by managing the data that consumers use to make purchasing decisions on search engines and retail websites. Because of the large volume of data that Edgenet must export to its customers, the company couldn't provide this key service during business hours without hindering performance. Learn more...
- Stein Mart Case Study – Stein Mart, a nationwide department store, needed better access to business data to set weekly prices. To improve business insight and reporting capabilities, the company replaced existing products from multiple vendors with a data warehouse and selfservice BI tools based on Microsoft SQL Server 2012 Enterprise data management software.
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- OSIsoft Case Study – OSIsoft is a worldwide manufacturer of application software for realtime data infrastructure solutions, called the PI System, which is installed at 14,000 sites in more than 110 countries. The company wanted to provide easier access to the trillions of process measurements the system can collect in a year, as well as enhance high availability. Learn more...
