January, 2011

We are pleased to see Microsoft acknowledged by Gartner as a Leader in the Business Intelligence Platforms Magic Quadrant. [1] I am happy to see this type of affirmation in our approach and strength of our technologies from Gartner. The high level of...

Today we announced the availability of the HP Business Decision Appliance . This is the culmination of many months of engineering work between HP and Microsoft to develop a software/hardware solution to enable easy access to self-service business intelligence...

I run the Appliance Engineering team for SQL Server. One of the questions I get asked most often about building appliances, is how do we go about designing a new appliance. We don’t start with a cool piece of hardware and figure out what we might...

Ah yes. The closing of another great year and the promise of a new year is just around the corner. It’s been a busy year that’s for sure and I thought I’d take a minute to recap some of the things we are thankful for. Not an exhaustive...