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SQL Server overview
Organization today faces numerous data challenges. You need your people to make faster and more data-driven decisions, your developers to be more productive and flexible, and your managers to reduce their overall information technology (IT) budgets even as they scale your infrastructure to meet ever-increasing demands. 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.
The SQL Server 2005 data platform provides organizations of all sizes with the following benefits:
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Capitalize on Data Assets. In addition to delivering a secure, reliable database for line-of-business and analytical applications, SQL Server 2005 enables your people to get more value from their data by including embedded functionality such as reporting, analysis, and data mining. You can take advantage of this power and flexibility to deliver data to every corner of your organization at a fraction of the cost of some other systems. |
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Increase Productivity. Through comprehensive BI capabilities and integration with familiar tools such as Microsoft Office System, SQL Server 2005 delivers timely business information to those who need it and tailors it to their specific needs. The goal is to extend BI to your entire staff and ultimately to help everyone, at all levels of the organization, make better business decisions based on one of their most valuable assets—their data. |
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Reduce IT Complexity. SQL Server 2005 simplifies the development, deployment, and management of line-of-business and analytical applications by providing a flexible development environment for developers and integrated, automated management tools for database administrators. |
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Lower Total Cost of Ownership (TCO). The integrated approach and focus on ease of use and deployment in SQL Server 2005 provides the industry's lowest upfront, implementation, and maintenance costs for rapid return on your database investment. |