Next Wave of Microsoft Business Intelligence is here!

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Today Microsoft announced the release to manufacturing (RTM) of SQL Server 2008 R2, offering customers a “complete approach” to managing their information assets. SQL Server 2008 R2 delivers on our Information Platform vision and is the foundation of the Microsoft Business Intelligence offering. This highly anticipated release introduces exciting new capabilities such as Managed Self-Service BI, Master Data Management, and Parallel Data Warehousing and introduces record setting performance and scale at a low TCO. Increasing scale and decreasing TCO are critical factors to delivering on our vision of making BI truly pervasive and available to more people throughout the organization. Deeply integrating with the upcoming release of Microsoft Office 2010 and SharePoint Server 2010 uniquely enables Microsoft to empower people through familiar tools to access the critical business information they need to make faster, smarter, more relevant business decisions. To see what’s new in SQL Server 2008 R2 visit www.sqlserverlaunch.com



We’ve had some great press including a write-up for InformationWeek, Bob Evans writes, “The opportunity is certainly right for the ‘democratization of BI’… few if any companies have shown the ability to drive robust applications to scale the way Microsoft has with Office and other products, and now the company says it's launching a BI initiative that'll blend the familiarity of Excel with the power of SQL Server.”



Be sure to check out some of the new BI content on the launch site including a new PowerPivot video with Donald Farmer



Also stay tuned in the coming weeks for more Microsoft BI news with the launch of Office 2010 and SharePoint 2010. Save the date on May 12, 2010 and watch Stephen Elop, president of the Microsoft Business Division announce the launch of Office 2010 and SharePoint 2010.







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