Treffer: Microsoft beefs up SQL Server database.

The article informs that Microsoft Corp. last week shared details about the business intelligence features it is adding to the forthcoming SQL Server 2005 database, code-named Yukon. New data integration, analysis and reporting tools are intended to help companies glean information from transactional systems without requiring third-party analytics software. Standard and enterprise include an online analytic processing engine and an integrated development environment for building data integration, online analytical processing, data mining and reporting applications. A feature Microsoft is calling "infinite drilldown." available only in the enterprise edition,adds to the ad hoc reporting capabilities. Users can click on a number in a report to see greater detail about how the number was derived, generating another report without even thinking about it. Database vendors have been bundling in more business intelligence capabilities. IBM last month announced plans to buy Ascential Software for $1.1 billion to bolster its data management portfolio and Oracle in the fall bolstered the analytic tools included in its 10g database platform.