Donald Farmer DISCUSSES THE BENEFITS OF Managed Self-Service BI

Abstract

SQL Server Magazine's Michael Otey and Sheila Molnar visited Microsoft recently to talk with Donand FarmerTpTincipal program manager for SQL Server SQL Analysis Services, about the business intelligence (Bl) piece of SQL Server 2008 RZ currently code-named Gemini. Self-service analysis means that end users, information workers, knowledge workers - people who currently work in the Excel environment - can use Gemini to perform and collaborate on analytic functions without going to a specialist for advice. [...] they wouldn't ship a piece of cargo without it. Madison is this highly scalable environment for IT to serve massive data warehousing environments.