SQL Server 2008 R2 Enterprise helps organizations reduce costs, improve productivity and optimize business processes through high performance, scalability, availability and advanced security features. It allows for server consolidation, virtualization, data compression and centralized management to lower hardware and storage costs. The platform also provides powerful business intelligence and data warehousing capabilities to help organizations gain insights from data and make better business decisions.

1. MICROSOFT® SQL SERVER® 2008 R2 ENTERPRISE FOR
MID-MARKET ORGANIZATIONS
SQL Server 2008 R2 Enterprise helps to significantly reduce Productivity
data management operational costs, maintain high Optimize your business with a more productive platform for
availability and scalability, and makes it easier for employees data applications.
to obtain maximum business insight from data. Increase business continuity
Reduce lost productivity by minimizing planned and
Business Intelligence unplanned database downtime. SQL Server 2008 R2
Enterprise provides enterprise-class high-availability
Gain business advantage through pervasive insight with
capabilities, enabling you to implement cost-effective
enterprise-level business intelligence (BI) capabilities.
automatic failover solutions for physical and virtual servers to
Centralize reporting and data analysis ensure that your business can continue to operate in the
event of a database server failure. Additionally, SQL Server
Reduce redundancy and improve business efficiency by 2008 R2 Enterprise enables many maintenance tasks to be
creating a single, consolidated data store for business performed without taking the server offline to help to keep
analytics and reporting. SQL Server 2008 R2 Enterprise your business-critical applications available more of the time.
provides a highly scalable data platform with performance-
enhancing features that make it a cost-effective way for SQL Server provides us with exceptional dependability.
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small to medium enterprises to consolidate their various Bwin
sources of business data into a central data mart or data
warehouse. Microsoft’s Fast Track program provides tested Optimize business processes with high performance
server configurations that make it much easier and less and scalability
expensive to build your data warehouse than you may Optimize the efficiency of your business through greater
imagine. performance and scalability. SQL Server 2008 R2 enables
Gain efficiencies through improved business insight you to dramatically improve the performance of line-of-
business (LOB) applications and customer-facing Web
Improve business decision-making and increase revenue applications, resulting in greater productivity.
through better insights. Use Master Data Management to
clean and standardize data for analysis. Analyze business Our testing demonstrates that SQL Server 2008 provides
data from multiple sources, identify trends, and deliver enterprise-class performance with a low total cost of
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reports and insights to your executives and employees. ownership. Siemens
Empower employees by putting the tools they need to make
critical business decisions directly into their hands; Reduce compliance and security costs with enterprise
PowerPivot® for Excel® 2010 enables you to perform security
complex analyses without the need for deep technical Security features in SQL Server 2008 R2 Enterprise enable
knowledge, and you can share and manage analyses and you to protect sensitive data without using custom encryption
reports centrally through PowerPivot for SharePoint® 2010. solutions or expensive third-party data encryption packages.
Maximize your return on investment (ROI) through You can also take advantage of fine-grained auditing support
platform interoperability and compatibility to simplify data access logging and compliance in your
organization.
Benefit from close integration with common applications and
platforms, such as Microsoft Office Excel and Microsoft Increase DBA productivity with enterprise manageability
Office SharePoint Server. This enables you to get more SQL Server 2008 R2 features Application and Multi-Server
value from your existing applications and gain business Management, which makes it easier to centrally manage
efficiencies through an integrated user experience. multiple registered database servers through an intuitive
Microsoft® SQL Server® 2008 R2 Enterprise for Mid-Market Organizations

2. interface that includes dashboard and drilldown views of Lower storage costs through Data Compression
each server’s resource utilization and policy compliance.
Reduce the cost of storage with Data Compression. By
You can also automate maintenance tasks and use policy-
based management to define configuration policies and compressing data, you can reduce the number and size of
apply them to multiple SQL Server instances and databases. storage devices, such as disks and tapes, required to store
This ensures enterprise-wide compliance with minimal your databases, resulting in reduced spending on hardware.
administrative overhead. Make even greater savings with SQL Server 2008 R2
Enterprise’s support for UCS-2 Unicode compression, which
Cost-Efficiency extends the benefits of Data Compression to global
Reduce business expenditure with an efficient database applications.
platform that can help your business to succeed.
We estimate we will see a 35 percent reduction in disk storage
Reduce costs through server consolidation needs by compressing older data. We calculate that we are
saving [U.S.] $25,000 to $50,000 the first year alone in what
Reduce the number of servers in your business by
would have been additional storage costs by using the
consolidating databases on fewer machines. Running fewer compression features in SQL Server 2008.
servers translates into reduced costs for hardware, cooling, ServiceU Corporation
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physical space, and maintenance; it also provides improved
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control over your systems and a reduced carbon footprint.
With SQL Server Enterprise, you can utilize server resources
to host multiple databases on a single server without
compromising performance and scalability.
Consolidation on a truly scalable platform, such as the HP
Integrity line of servers, not only can deliver positive
economic advantages in the short term, but can position
organizations for lower operating costs, and improved
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service delivery for years to come. Alinean
Save on hardware and software costs with virtualization
With SQL Server 2008 R2 Enterprise and Microsoft
Windows Server ® 2008 R2, you can use virtualization to
host multiple virtual database servers on a single physical
server―reducing hardware and administrative costs
considerably and maximizing the value of your software
investment. SQL Server 2008 R2 supports Windows Server
2008 R2 Live Migration to help you to keep virtualized
applications highly available and minimize planned Learn More:
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SQL Server 2008 R2 Edition Comparison
SQL Server 2008 R2 Standard SQL Server 2008 R2 Enterprise
Business Intelligence Analysis and reporting capabilities that can be Enterprise-scale data warehousing and analysis
integrated with Microsoft Office applications. solutions with data-driven report delivery capabilities.
Productivity Automated maintenance features that improve Enhanced performance features that drive business
the productivity of your database efficiencies throughout the organization, and increased
administrators. high-availability and business continuity capabilities,
improving productivity for all employees.
Cost-Efficiency Value-added features and automation Server consolidation and compression features that
capabilities that reduce the total cost of drive down hardware and energy costs, and enterprise
ownership of your database platform. performance that increases your ROI.
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