Database and Data Warehousing
Organizations today face numerous data challenges, such as the need to make faster and more data-driven decisions, the need to increase the productivity and flexibility of development staff, and pressure to reduce overall information technology (IT) budgets while also scaling the infrastructure to meet ever-increasing demands.

Microsoft SQL Server 2005 is designed to help enterprises address these challenges. This next-generation data management and analysis solution delivers increased security, scalability, and availability to enterprise data and analytical applications, while making them easier to build, deploy, and manage.

Extending the strengths of SQL Server 2000, SQL Server 2005 provides an integrated data management and analysis solution that can help organizations of any size to do the following:

• Build, deploy, and manage enterprise applications that are more secure, scalable, and reliable.

• Maximize IT productivity by reducing the complexity of developing and supporting database applications.

• Share data across multiple platforms, applications, and devices to make it easier to connect internal and external systems.

• Control costs without sacrificing performance, availability, scalability, or security.

Microsoft SQL Server 2005 advances your data infrastructure in three key areas: enterprise data management, developer productivity, and business intelligence (BI).

Business Intelligence and OLAP
Microsoft 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.

• 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.

• Analyze - Gain an integrated view of all your business data as the foundation for your traditional reporting, OLAP analysis, scorecards, and data mining.

• Report - Deliver the information employees need to make better business decisions—in virtually any business environment.

• Data Mining - Explore data, discover patterns, and apply these patterns to business operations with an easy-to-use, extensible, accessible, and flexible platform.

At Extended Results, we're good at this stuff.  Every business intelligence solution we develop requires us to interface existing data sources or even build some new ones.   Contact us for more information on how Extended Results can help you find value in your business decisions.

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