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Alan R. Earls, Contributor Published: 13 Oct 2012
Microsoft Master Data Services boosts SQL master data management

This article is part of the October 2011, Vol. 7 issue of Microsoft Master Data Services boosts SQL master data management

It’s the same old story of Microsoft making aggressive and strategic moves into new areas. This time around, it’s StreamInsight, a complex event processing (CEP) platform introduced last spring for SQL Server 2008 R2 that the company says can process, analyze and take action on a constant stream of events from multiple sources in near real time. Until StreamInsight came along, CEP was largely the domain of players with top-end, enterprise-focused products. But according to experts and analysts in the field, Microsoft has ventured into the right exclusive corner. “In some sense, a CEP product like StreamInsight might be considered sort of ‘out there’ for Microsoft, but in other ways it’s a typical business model for them,” said Kevin Kline, technical strategy manager at Quest Software, a vendor of monitoring tools. For example, he noted, high-end reporting had previously been the domain of products like Business Objects Crystal Reports. “You would spend thousands of dollars to get a good reporting system and you would have to train people to use it,” he said.... Access >>>

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