SQL Server 2008 completely meets Microsofts vision for it as it allows your organization to manage any company data, whenever, wherever. You can store almost any kind of data directly onto the server, whether its structured, semi-structured or fully structured data, like images or rich media.

With this server you can do whatever you want with your data, you can run queries and reports and you can analyse, synchronise or search it.

In order to take advantage of the opportunities presented in todays ever changing business world, being able to implement effective, data-driven solutions is vital. SQL Server 2008 provides highest levels of scalability, reliability and security on all of your companies crucial applications as well as reducing the cost and time taken to develop the applications themselves.

You can access data from across your entire database and archives, as well as provide control over it wherever its stored, whether its in the biggest servers or on a desktop or mobile device. The information stored will be accessible to your staff from the standard applications of Microsoft Office or most commonly used tools.

Solutions offered by SQL Server 2008:

OLTP: This stands for online transaction processing and is used when lots of transactions are being carried out by many users. The server provides extremely effective database solutions that can be implemented in these situations.

Business Intelligence: Most companies will have access to l large amount of data, but the challenge is transforming that data into useful information and gaining intelligence from it. The server provides the solutions to enable you to do that, and to apply that intelligence to important business decisions.

Application Development: Microsoft SQL Server 2008 is at the heart of a comprehensive data platform that enables you to access and manipulate business-critical data from a variety of diverse devices, platforms, and data services across the enterprise. It Improves developers productivity by providing seamless integration between frameworks, data connectivity technologies and programming languages, web services, development tools and data. Developers can develop data-centric solutions that access, consume, and manage data from any data source, and enable efficient delivery to relevant users.

What Analysts Say: ChannelWeb: CRN Staff Microsoft SQL Server recognized as Best Seller and Top Growth Best Seller by CRN Magazine.

Gartner, Inc. Gartner 2006 worldwide RDBMS market share reports highest growth rate in market share for Microsoft SQL Server. With 28% growth in market share, growth is almost twice the nearest competitor at 14.8% growth.