SQL Server Business Intelligence

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Same proven reliability. New breakthrough capabilities.

Realize your data’s potential. Upgrade to SQL Server 2016 to bring new built-in capabilities to your database—from analytics to data warehousing. With easy-to-use upgrade tools, you’ll minimize downtime and maximize return.

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WHY A SQL SERVER BI PLATFORM?

Use a proven BI platform

Take advantage of scalability, access to secured data, and familiar tools.

Enable hybrid BI

Connect to your on-premises data from the cloud. No data movement required.

Transform complex data

Create powerful data models that can be easily understood and analyzed.

Modernize reporting

Deliver KPIs and paginated mobile reports from a single modern web portal.

Access mobile BI

Access KPIs and reports on any device using built-in mobile BI capabilities.

Transform your data with SQL Server Analysis Services

Build enterprise-ready analytic solutions to deliver actionable insights using familiar data visualization tools, such as Power BI and Excel. Create a single version of the truth across different data sources with multidimensional or tabular models.

Transform your data with SQL Server Analysis Services

Share business insights with SQL Server Reporting Services

Scale your reporting solution to thousands of users with a modern enterprise-ready reporting platform. Comprehensive reporting capabilities help you author, deliver, and manage modern and mobile reports across your organization.

Access your data from the cloud with hybrid BI

Extend your existing on-premises data and reporting investments to the cloud. Connect to on-premises data—without moving the data to the cloud—and view your information in one place with Power BI.

View BI capabilities in SQL Server Reporting Services and Analysis Services

Create shared data sources and datasets for your reports

SSAS Tabular semantic model updates for SQL Server 2016

Analysis Services DirectQuery for Tabular models

Design mobile reports with SQL Server Mobile Report Publisher

Monitor critical business metrics and trends at a glance with KPIs

Access reports in modern browsers and mobile devices

CASE STUDIES

Saving lives with data

Find out how BI and analytics helps the Elizabeth Glaser Pediatric AIDS Foundation use data in new ways in the drive to achieve an AIDS-free generation.