Microsoft extends SQL Server intelligence
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Microsoft has extended the reach of its business data platform, demonstrating new business intelligence capabilities for SQL Server 2000 and SQL Server 2005.
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This paper explains how the newest offering from Cognos - Cognos 8 Business Intelligence - can help organizations avoid the "Fatal Flaws" of Business Intelligence and Performance Management.  The Cognos Views are not intended to be exhaustive; rather, they are intended to act as an introduction to Cognos 8 BI and a catalyst for further reading.
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"Stinger" update of DB2 will focus on automatic administration and an improvement in clustered performance.
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iAdmin Mobile has made available the final release candidate for its Microsoft (Nasdaq: MSFT) SQL Server Mobile Management Pack.
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MicrosoftÂ by mid-2006 plans to release a new version of its BizTalk Server business integration software, offering support for SQL Server 2005 and simplified management, among other features.
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Microsoft has added new business intelligence (BI) capabilities to SQL Server 2000 and SQL Server 2005; according to an announcement today at the 2004 Professional Association for SQL Server community summit in Orlando, USA.
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Microsoft announced this week Business Ready Customer Care, an initiative that includes major enhancements to its maintenance and support program for Microsoft Dynamics, ERP and CRM applications.
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Following the release of Microsoft's SQL Server extension for PHP, Stuart Herbert has posted some of his thoughts on the matter to his blog.   He's broken it up into two sections: "Why Is It Important For Microsoft To Support PHP On Windows?" and "What's Wrong With The Existing MSSQL Extension For PHP?" He answers the first question by mentioning the new options that it opens up for those that want to run both Windows and PHP and still use their SQL Server databases.   Question two gives four things that he's already seen wrong with the extension including it's limited varchar support, no PDO drivers and the poor level of error reporting.   The SQL Server 2005 driver for PHP "is a PHP 5 extension that allows the reading and writing of SQL Server data from within PHP scripts. It provides a procedural interface for accessing data in all Editions of SQL Server 2005 and SQL Server 2000 (including Express Edition), and makes use of PHP features, including PHP streams to read and write large objects."
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Microsoft on Wednesday unveiled new and reworked business-intelligence tools that provide capabilities ranging from self-service report building for non-techs to mining information from data flows outside of a database.
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InfoWorld - Microsoft released Service Pack 2 (SP2) for SQL Server 2005 on Tuesday, a free upgrade available for download, in addition to new virtualization licensing for the database.
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Microsoft&#160;is developing a common code base for all of itsDynamics ERP&#160;(enterprise resource planning) applications, a company executive said Wednesday.That will allow Microsoft to release new versions of the software more quickly, and make it easier for customers to switch from one application to another, according to Kirill Tatarinov, vice president of Microsoft Business Solutions.The division handles the&#160;Dynamics line of products, which includes ERP applications such as GP (formerly Great Plains), SL (formerly Solomon), AX (formerly Axapta), and NAV (formerly Navision), as well as the company&#39;s CRM applications.Microsoft&#39;s ERP products came from a spate of acquisitions earlier in the decade when it decided to enter the business applications market. The original plan was to merge the ERP lines into a single product, but Microsoft later decided against it.However, &quot;we never stopped working on convergence,&quot; Tatarinov said. &quot;That&#39;s been our strategy. That remains our strategy.&quot;Having one code base will allow applications to share the same user interface and controls, such as now are shared between AX and NAV, Tatarinov said. The code base will also encompass database functions, APIs (application programming interfaces), business intelligence capabilities and communications technologies that enable VOIP (voice over Internet protocol) and instant messaging, he said.Microsoft learned a &quot;tremendous&quot; amount about ERP after buying Great Plains Software in 2001 and Navision in 2002, Tatarinov said. Users won&#39;t ever see a single Microsoft ERP product for all markets, since Microsoft realizes that business have different needs, he said.However, users at Microsoft&#39;s Convergence 2007 expressed some confusion over the different product lines.&quot;I don&#39;t understand why they have so many different products,&quot; said Lars Jalve, financial manager for Transas Ltd., a company that makes navigation equipment for ships and managing harbors.Transas uses the NAV product, but Jalve suggested it might be easier for customers if Microsoft had just one ERP product and then offered modules with different functions that customers could purchase separately according to their needs. A product such as AX, which is aimed at large enterprises, might have functions that would appeal to people who are on ERP packages aimed at mid-size businesses, he said.Hans Grappi, leader of project management for a waste disposal company in Switzerland, was shopping for an ERP system to install in five disposal plants that have recently become part of the company. So far they&#39;ve installed SharePoint, Microsoft content management system, and have a very dated version of the AX ERP application.Grappi said is company is interested in what Microsoft has to offer, but the product set is too broad. &quot;You can get lost in all of the different elements,&quot; he said.&#160;
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Microsoft today unveiled a technical preview of SQL Server 2005 Express Manager, a newly developed free database management tool and the second Community Technology Preview of the SQL Server 2005 database.
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Microsoft is putting off the shipping date for SQL Server 2005, also known as &quot;Yukon,&quot; and instead will release an incremental beta app called &quot;Community Technical Preview.
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JasperSoft&#39;s next upgrade of its open-source business intelligence suite, due out Nov. 1, will improve the ability for users to create their own customized reports.
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Alex Netkachov has posted some of his own thoughts about Microsoft's recent SQL server 205 driver for PHP:   I can add that a few years ago I had bad experience with MS SQL PHP extension. It was just impossible to use it in production environment. These days MS understand that PHP is a very popular programming language and step forward to the community   He also includes a list of some of the things that the driver includes/makes possible such as the fact that it's not a PDO or OOP driver, that there's no source posted for it and that it does support data streams.
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Microsoft has purchased a small, privately held data management company and will use the technology to enhance its SQL Server database, Office, and related business software, the company said Thursday.
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Microsoft is preparing a wave of enterprise products, including the long-awaited update to Windows Server.