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Accelerate business insight with SQL Server 2008 for Data Warehousing
SQL Server 2008 provides a comprehensive and scalable data warehouse platform that enables organizations to integrate data into the data warehouse faster, scale and manage growing volumes of data and users, while delivering insights to all users.    

Quickly build your data warehouse
Provide development teams with tools that enable a productive and collaborative environment for building solutions.
 
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Easily manage data
Benefit from the increased scalability, manageability, and performance offered by SQL Server 2008.

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Deliver better business insight
Provide deep analytical capabilities, rich visualization and collaboration, and enterprise reporting to all employees.

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Quickly build your data warehouse
· Improved visual development

Business Intelligence Development Studio (BIDS) with tight integration with Visual Studio provides development teams that are building data-centric applications with tools that enable a productive and collaborative environment for building solutions.
· Enhanced data integration

SQL Server 2008 Integration Services (SSIS), available as part of SQL Server 2008, provides the features and performance necessary to build enterprise-class data integration applications. Integration of diverse data sources and destinations is made easy.

Easily manage data
· Enterprise scalability

Build and deploy the most applications with Scalability advancements such as partitioning, snapshot isolation, and 64-bit support.
· Increased manageability

Simplify management by providing an integrated management environment to monitor, manage, and tune all of the databases and associated services across the enterprise. Improvements to the management of enterprise database applications include enhanced support for large databases and more flexible management of distributed databases.

Deliver better business insight
· Deep analytical capabilities

SQL Server 2008 Analysis Services combines the flexibility and richness of the traditional relational reporting model with the powerful, user- friendly analytics and scalable performance to provide a rich set of features that exposes the underlying relational data to your end users.

· Rich visualization and collaboration

Go beyond simply monitoring data in other applications with Microsoft Office PerformancePoint Server that integrates seamlessly with other Microsoft business intelligence products and provides analytics within the applications decision makers use daily.

· Enterprise reporting

SQL Server 2008 Reporting Services extends the Data Warehouse platform to reach the information worker who needs access to business data.