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The Next Step in BI: Predicting the Future 

With the confluence of easily accessible data sources and powerful and available business intelligence and predictive analytic tools, we’ve entered a new era where data itself has become the platform for new application development.
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Customers are seeking industry-specific solutions utilizing Microsoft Business Intelligence platform stack 

The Microsoft BI team has seen consistent demand from our customers for industry-specific solutions that utilize the Microsoft Business Intelligence platform stack. These customers like the overall MS BI story – they see that it delivers familiar user interfaces and the ability to collaborate across organizations, all in a well-managed, scalable environment.
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Microsoft offering New Oracle to Microsoft SQL Server Data Migration Assistant 

Microsoft announced today the release of two new resources that save customers time and money by taking advantage of interoperable Microsoft technologies. The new resources include an out-of-the-box connector between Microsoft Dynamics CRM (Online and on-premises) and Microsoft Dynamics AX, and a new Data Migration Assistant for Microsoft Dynamics AX customers moving from an Oracle database to Microsoft SQL Server.
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Announcing Fast Track Data Warehouse 3.0 at TDWI World Conference 

Today February 14, 2011 Microsoft announced SQL Server Fast Track Data Warehouse 3.0 at TDWI World Conference in Las Vegas.  Fast Track Data Warehouse is a set of Reference Architectures that help customers and Partners reduce time to solution and cost. Fast Track also provides significantly increased performance and scale through pre-tested and pre-tuned configurations.    For partners, Fast Track Data Warehouse 3.
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New Ways to Drive Top-Line Growth 

How IT Can Drive Top-Line Growth By Joe Mullich As the world emerges from 24 months of economic turmoil, “companies are looking for technology, innovation, and reinvention of their business models,” says Kevin Turner, Chief Operating Office at Microsoft. In his position, Turner is responsible for the strategic and operational leadership of the company’s worldwide sales, marketing, and services organization.
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HP Business Decision Appliance – A Closer Look at Backup and Availability Features 

Today we announced the availability of the HP Business Decision Appliance. This is the culmination of many months of engineering work between HP and Microsoft to develop a software/hardware solution to enable easy access to self-service business intelligence technology. The solution is designed for medium size businesses and departmental enterprise deployments.
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Business Intelligence Recap of 2010 

Ah yes. The closing of another great year and the promise of a new year is just around the corner. It’s been a busy year that’s for sure and I thought I’d take a minute to recap some of the things we are thankful for. Not an exhaustive list, as I am sure I’ll miss a few things but a list none-the-less.
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SQL Server 2005 SP4 RTM Now Available for Download 

The RTM version of Service Pack 4 (SP4) for Microsoft SQL Server 2005 is now available for download, and includes SQL Server 2005 SP3 cumulative updates 1 to 11, customer requested fixes and the SQL Server 2005 SP4 database engine support for DAC operations.
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All about the SQL Server JumpIn! camp 

The SQL Server JumpIn! Camp, was scheduled from Nov 16th thru 19th at an excellent facility not too far from Microsoft’s main campus with the purpose of bringing key PHP developers and SQL Server engineers together with the goal of supporting SQL Server and SQL Azure, with the last day reserved for Windows Azure and IIS.