Microsoft's Vision for Data Warehousing

Microsoft's continued focus on large-scale Data Warehousing has been evident with the launch of a SQL Server appliance dedicated to Data Warehouse workloads (FastTrack). The announcement of Microsoft project code name "Madison" for scalability into the Petabytes, and the new BI/DW capabilities in Microsoft SQL Server 2008 R2. This session provides an integrated view on the Data Warehouse vision, and takes customer case studies as a basis for showing what is being achieved today, and the capabilities soon to be available.