Microsoft wants to make SQL Server as practical as Word or Excel
The decision to everyone in business. An old dream cherished by Microsoft and the next version of SQL Server is supposed to be approaching. At the Microsoft Business Intelligence Conference 2008 in Seattle (6-8 October), the publisher has unveiled new features “analysis” developed under the code name Project Gemini and future reports (code name Kilimanjaro), which will be dedicated to the analysis.
Provide hosted services self-service (managed self-service), this is the vocation of these new features. These are intended to extend the analysis to a broader level employees in companies on behalf of increased productivity. “If you can use Word and Excel, you’ll be able to use our solution analysis. It is our commitment to customers,” says Stephen elope, president of Microsoft Business Division, quoted in the press release.
Microsoft has begun to unveil a timetable for the availability of its new products: a preliminary version of PTC Kilimanjaro will be distributed in the next twelve months. Pending a final version announced for the first half of 2010.
SQL Server broken seven times
To expand the capacity of its data platform, Microsoft announced mid-July acquisition of Israeli society Zoomix to extract better data and more relevant for future versions of SQL Server.
The publisher does not stop the course of innovation with its base management system and data analysis. In early August, he unveiled the release to manufacturing (RTM) of SQL Server 2008.
A product that Microsoft operates in seven variants: Enterprise, Standard (for SMEs), Workgroup, Web (for applications), Developer, Express (free version) and Compact 3.5 (free version for mobile devices).