Microsoft SQL Server

Network Essentials IT Consultants have experience with Microsofts data management product SQL Server.  Microsoft SQL Server is a comprehensive database server and information platform offering a complete set of enterprise-ready technologies and tools that help people derive the most value from information at the lowest total-cost-of-ownership. Enjoy high levels of performance, availability, and security; employ more productive management and development tools; and deliver pervasive insight with self-service business intelligence (BI).

A complete and integrated platform, Microsoft SQL Server brings it all together to get more value out of existing IT skills and assets, increase the productivity and agility of IT departments, and quickly build flexible, innovative applications.

Rapid Data Discovery - Plow through mounds of data for deeper insights with rapid data exploration and visualization.

• Discover and share insight across all levels of the organization with Power View that offers highly interactive web-based drag-and-drop data querying and visualizations for insights at the speed of thought.
• Plow through mounds of data in a familiar way at lightning-fast speeds in Excel with the award winning PowerPivot add-in, including new advanced analytic capabilities.
• Inspire data discovery innovation across end-users with data mash-up capabilities including connectivity to cloud-based data in Windows Azure Marketplace DataMarket or via third-party providers with Odata

Managed Self-Service Business Intelligence - Enable accessible intelligence across the organization through Managed Self-Service BI, IT dashboards, and SharePoint collaboration

• Provide a complete view for reports & dashboards across heterogeneous data sources with the BI Sematic Model that can scale from small personal BI solutions to the largest organizational BI needs.
• Balance the need to monitor, manage, and govern the data and analytics end users create with IT dashboards and controls that help IT monitor end user activity, data source usage, and gather performance metrics from servers.
• Make information-based decisions part of everyday life with SharePoint integration for insights collaboration and customizable Alerts that keep users apprised of relevant changes to data.
• Extend rich user insights to even more people with SQL Azure Reporting that removes the need for deploying and maintaining a reporting infrastructure.
• Deploy more than just breathtaking end user analytics tools, SQL Server continues to deliver end-to-end BI through easy to set up and manage traditional OLAP and reporting cubes.

Credible, Consistent Data - Provide a complete view across business dimensions and help ensure data confidence through integration, cleansing and management

• Integrate, manage, and cleanse disparate data sources, including Windows Azure Marketplace DataMarket, with Integration Services (SSIS), Master Data Services (MDS), and Data Quality Services (DQS) built-in to SQL Server 2012.
• Reduce time-to-solution for data integration across data sources by utilizing efficient new tools in Integration Services (SSIS) that help deliver credible, consistent data reliably and efficiently.
• Improve data quality by using organizational knowledge and 3rd party reference data providers to reliably profile, cleanse, and match data with new SQL Server Data Quality Services.
• Create, maintain, store, and access master data structures used for object mapping, reference data, metadata management with Master Data Services (MDS) while a new MDS Add-in for Excel makes it easy for end users to manage and maintain data

 Complete Data Warehouse Solution - Gain scale and flexibility with complete data warehousing solutions that offer flexibility and massive scale at low cost.

• Help reduce data warehouse costs with reference architectures and appliances designed to offer incredible performance at a low price per terabyte.
• Scale data warehouses with built-in database features like Remote Blob Storage and partitioned tables that scale to 15,000 partitions that support large sliding window scenarios.
• Gain high scale with support for up to 256 cores – enabling high-performance for very large workloads or consolidation scenarios.
• Leverage best practices and drive fast time to market with data warehouse reference architectures and data warehouse appliances that help deliver faster time to solution.
• Scale to 100s of TB while maintaining high performance through massively parallel processing (MPP) architecture with Parallel Data Warehouse.

Contact Network Essentials IT Consultants to discuss your Data Management needs