Microsoft has been pouring R&D resourcesinto building out its business intelligence (BI) feature set and the upcoming SQL Server 2014 (SQL2014) release will continue that trend. The new release ...

— Today at the 2004 Professional Association for SQL Server (PASS) Community Summit in Orlando, Fla., Microsoft Corp. extended its comprehensive data platform by demonstrating new business ...

Querying relational databases requires SQL, which is the only language designed to communicate with them. As a matter of fact, how SQL is used distinguishes business intelligence tools from one ...

Accelerator for Business Intelligence (Accelerator for BI). The Accelerator for BI is a rapid application development tool to automate the process of building the infrastructure of an analytical ...

A relational database management system (RDBMS) like Microsoft SQL Server 2012 allows you to develop, maintain, and administer databases with a variety of administrative tools. BI systems use a ...

Microsoft on Tuesday is releasing the first service pack for the SQL Server 2000 Reporting Services business intelligence platform. Reporting Services is intended to boost business insight by offering ...

Realise your data's potential, upgrade to SQL Server 2016 to bring new built-in capabilities to your database - from analytics to data warehousing. Better decisions start with better business insights ...

Data is everything in today's business world and how your business harnesses it can make the difference between scaling and failing. For many businesses, Microsoft SQL Server is an essential lifeline.

In-Depth Build Your Own 'Skunk Works' Business Intelligence Project with SQL Using SQL Server, you can build a BI platform without getting your organization's top brass involved. By Andrew Peterson ...

Business Intelligence has been floating around as an industry phrase for more than a decade now, and yet many partners or IT pros would likely be hard-pressed to name 10 people who actually use BI ...

SQL Server 2008 R2, which ships this month, allows end users to tap into the powerful business intelligence features of SQL Server via tight integration with popular Microsoft applications like Excel.

Alan Joch has been an independent business and technology writer for more than a decade. His expertise includes server and desktop virtualization, cloud computing, emerging mobile applications, and ...