Archive for the ‘Business Intelligence’ Category

SQL 2008 R2 RTM Release!

IMPORTANT NOTE FOR MSDN SUBSCRIBERS: The download is available! being rolled out over the next couple of weeks, so keep checking the MSDN Downloads for updates.

Take Database Management to New Levels of Innovation, Efficiency
With the release to manufacturing (RTM) of Microsoft SQL Server 2008 R2 database software, now is the time to prepare for new [...]


For the less technical Decision Makers: SQL Server 2008 R2

A couple of days ago, Microsoft released a free e-book describing SQL Server 2008 R2 and the exciting features it offers.
For the less technical, the book’s overview targets technical readers, so I’ll attempt to summarize the new features of R2 for the less-technical decision makers.

Virtualization: This comes first, because a lot of your teams wrote-off [...]


CxO Business Intelligence - Microsoft’s Solver Foundation

In October, Microsoft released Solver Foundation, a framework for delivering business intelligence tools with self-proclaimed CxO benefits. Considering that their first public release was only in February 2009 and they are already on version 2.0, BI experts should keep an eye on this framework and the tools built with it. With the right combination of [...]