IT departments and users have traditionally been at odds with others on Self-Service analysis. IT departments attempting to maintain governance and control of IT, end users want to generate and manage their own content and reporting. With self-service managed business intelligence in SQL Server 2008 R2, these two worlds meet, in addition to providing significant advantage for business. SQL Server 2008 R2 offers both IT and end users with cutting edge tools to create, analyze and model, share and manage business intelligence data in a safe and streamlined.
self analysis tools allow end users to quickly create solutions within a familiar user interface of Microsoft Office Excel from different data sources. By publishing these solutions in SharePoint Server, users can easily share with others. IT gets a management and supervision so they can help ensure the reliability, performance and security of assets controlled by data throughout the enterprise, while also obtains greater visibility of how people use their data.
Improve Data Quality & Efficiency
ensures consistency of reporting through data and systems making it faster, you can provide more accurate results across the enterprise with tools to adopt a centralized approach define, implement and manage master data. The master data hub in SQL Server 2008 R2 provides organizations with a consistent way to track versions of master data and answer questions about master data at specific points in time. Consistent master data improve the quality of data systems across the enterprise and helps to maintain the operational requirements and business intelligence.
Create, edit and update the master data efficiently through a central portal. The web master data management provides centralized control of master data, including members and hierarchies and allows administrators to ensure data model data quality to develop, review and management of data models and their consistent application in all domains.
BI & Data Securely Deliver
Reliably Extend the effective control of IT has created for the use of analytical solutions through a centralized management console using Microsoft SQL Server 2008 R2 and PowerPivot add-in for SharePoint Server 2010. In SQL Server 2008 R2, end users can publish their solutions based on data through SharePoint, which allows the IT department to effectively manage version control, user access and use of resources. This allows the IT department to control who has access to confidential data and to help ensure the consistent availability of data corporate. It also gives them more knowledge of what data and solutions people use at the same time help prevent the proliferation of unmanaged applications "shadow."
Enable Self-Service Analysis and Collaboration Easier
Expanding the reach of business intelligence tools to a wider audience and encourage ad-hoc analysis to enable users to create their own analytic applications through PowerPivot Excel addin (formerly known as "Gemini") and SQL Server 2008 R2. With PowerPivot , users are empowered to create solutions using both data sources and external IT-managed, perform advanced ad-hoc analysis and modeling, extract the value of data more easily and to publish and share reports for their colleagues.
Reduce time and cost reports with intuitive end-user tools that make it easier for people to find, use and share information. Report Builder 3.0 in SQL Server 2008 R2 makes it even easier for end users to create reports faster and fosters collaboration and coherence making them easier to share.
allow maintaining self analysis IT control guidelines and providing IT-supported platforms such as SharePoint to post their solutions and IT governance to ensure accessibility.
produce new knowledge and rich experiences by integrating geospatial data with other corporate data sources and types. SQL Server 2008 R2 supports the mapping, routing, custom shapes and other spatial data, making it easier to combine with other data and maps for businesses Bing, create a new class of rich data-driven solutions.
simplify data collection and time-consuming tasks with tools that facilitate consolidation to create "data mash ups" that combine data from different sources. Mash ups data provide new ways to combine existing data from corporate databases and external sources and analyzed using familiar tools in Office Excel.
Build Rich Applications with all Data
produce new knowledge and rich experiences by integrating geospatial data with other corporate data sources and types. SQL Server 2008 R2 supports the mapping, routing, custom shapes and other spatial data, making it easier to combine with other data and maps for businesses Bing, create a new class of data-driven solutions rich.
simplify data collection and time-consuming tasks with tools that facilitate consolidation to create "data mash ups" that combine data from different sources. Mash ups data provide new ways to combine existing data from corporate databases and external sources and analyzed using familiar tools in Office Excel.
