Whidbey, Yukon Combo Provides BI Development Platform

Indications of strategy from Microsoft... this packaged approach is something to be ready for, it's a train that can't be stopped. Oracle has similar plans (Mark Rittman's site) although they are not quite as clear with their message.


Yahoo! News - Whidbey, Yukon Combo Provides BI Development Platform: "'So, it's a natural for us to say, let's take Visual Studio and extend that so it becomes a full-fledged BI development environment,' Baker said.

'And that's what we've done. So, we have all the team development aspects that Visual Studio has anyway, and bring that into this space. Then we add the editors for ETL [extraction, transformation and loading], for cubes, for KPIs [key performance indicators], for reports, et cetera, and just put all that into Visual Studio,' Baker said. "

"Reporting Services is probably one of the most widespread managed programs out there in terms of adoption—there are well over 100,000 servers at this point," Baker said. "And data is managed all the way from day one. So, it was a huge bet on our part."