by senthil
24. October 2009 16:52
Project Gemini gets actual name Microsoft PowerPivot a data analysis add-on for Excel.
PowerPivot for Excel is designed to allow end users to work with large amounts of data, aggregate from different sources and create what is essentially a Microsoft Excel file. The users can then share the information through SharePoint.
Microsoft is stepping its effort on
in-memory analysis and
self-service business intelligence. They are not just building one product like Oracle or IBM, Microsoft is adding features / new products in Excel, SharePoint 2010, SQL Server 2008 R2, and Visual Studio to tackle this new generation of business intelligence and anlaysis.
Project Madison
Derived from Microsoft's acquisition of DATAllegro last year, Project Madison is a scale-out data warehousing solution for SQL Server environments. Now Microsoft can compete against IBM's DB2, Teradata and Oracle Exadata environment.
A big part of this improved scalability and performance comes from the product's massively parallel processing (MPP) architecture, which allows queries to be distributed across multiple threads, rather than single threads.
[via
TechTarget]
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