SQL Server 2005 provides many new and enhanced business intelligence (BI) features designed to give you a competitive advantage. These advantages include integrating multiple data sources with Integration Services; enriching data and building complex business analytics with Analysis Services; and writing, managing, and delivering rich reports with Reporting Services. Review the following product and technical resources and other information designed to help you improve BI in your organization.
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Integrate - Easily integrate data from a wide range of operational and enterprise data sources, and gain competitive advantage through a holistic view of your business.
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Analyze - Gain an integrated view of all your business data as the foundation for your traditional reporting, OLAP analysis, scorecards, and data mining.
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Report - Deliver the information employees need to make better business decisions—in virtually any business environment.
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Data Mining - Explore data, discover patterns, and apply these patterns to business operations with an easy-to-use, extensible, accessible, and flexible platform.
BI solutions need to be comprehensive, secure, integrated with operational systems, and available all day, every day. Read this overview to see how SQL Server 2005 delivers on that need.
Make informed decisions about upgrading or migrating your BI platform to SQL Server 2005 by reading this review of the feature set from the perspective of business value.
View this 10-minute demo to see how easily existing Visual Studio developers can add sophisticated business intelligence capabilities such as integration, analysis, and reporting into their applications.
