With SQL Server 2005, Analysis Services as the cornerstone of your Business Analysis Services 2005 maintains a

provides, for the first time, a unified Intelligence (BI) infrastructure and with highly compressed and optimized data
and integrated view of all your business the deep integration with SQL Server cache that gets automatically maintained
data as the foundation for all of your 2005 Reporting Services and with as the data in the underlying source
traditional reporting, OLAP analysis, Key Microsoft Office, Analysis Services databases changes. The cache provides
Performance Indicator (KPI) scorecards 2005 will extend business intelligence superb query performance and isolates the
and data mining. to every level of your business. back-end source systems from the load of
By introducing a single Unified the analytical queries.
Dimensional Model (UDM), Analysis Unified Dimensional Model
Services combines the flexibility and By combining the best aspects of traditional Advanced Business Intelligence
richness of the traditional relational OLAP analysis and relational reporting, ● Key Performance Indicator (KPI).
reporting model with the user-friendly Analysis Services 2005 provides a The KPI framework provides a rich
powerful analytics and the superb metadata model that covers both sets of centralized repository defining key
performance of the classic OLAP model. needs. A set of cubes and dimensions metrics and scorecards. The KPI
With Proactive Caching and advanced defined in Analysis Services 2005 is framework in Analysis Services 2005
business intelligence capabilities, referred to as a Unified Dimensional Model, allows you to easily build balanced
Analysis Services moves into the realm or UDM. The UDM is a central metadata scorecard and other types of business
of real-time analytics while maintaining repository defining business entities, performance management applications.
MOLAP class performance. business logic, calculations, and metrics ● Translations. Translations provide a
Major enhancements in enterprise that serves as the source for all reports, simple, centrally-managed mechanism
capabilities including scalability, spreadsheets, OLAP browsers, KPIs for storing and presenting analytic data
manageability, and productivity, soundly and analytical applications. to users in their preferred languages.
position Analysis Services Using the powerful new Data Source View ● MDX Scripts. MDX Scripts are the new
feature, the UDM is mapped to a host of mechanism for defining Calculated
heterogeneous back-end data Members, Named Sets, and Cell
sources allowing a complete and Calculations.
integrated picture of the business ● Business Intelligence Wizards. A set
regardless of the location of the data. of easy to use wizards will help even
With the UDM’s friendly descriptions the most novice user in modeling
of the business entities, navigation some of the more complex business
hierarchies, multiple perspectives, intelligence problems.
and even automatic translations to ● Semi-Additive Measures. New
native languages the end-users will measure aggregation type for advance
find it easy to explore the corporate data modeling includes last-non-
business data. empty, last-child, first-child, average-
of-children and even by-account-type.
Proactive Caching
Proactive Caching enables the
combination of real-time updates
with MOLAP class performance
Web Services the limitations of memory resident application development environment
XML for Analysis (XML/A) is the native, dimensions and the number of supporting the full life cycle of the
standards-based protocol for communicat- children members per parent. project. Source control, versioning,
ing with the Analysis Services server. New With XML/A-based communication workstation isolation, embedded
kinds of applications are enabled and easy protocol that is paired with greatly debugging, and configuration
to develop – applications that integrate optimized role based security Analysis management are some of the benefits
analytics with operations in real time that Services 2005 allows a UDM to of the new BI Development Studio.
can access the data from any platform handle thousands of users, enabling
and any language. enterprise scale BI applications using Additional Information
● With XML/A as the native protocol, web/middle tier or client/server SQL Server is part of the Windows Server
Analysis Services clients can be architectures. Additionally, with System — a comprehensive and integrated
configured to have a zero footprint, parallelized partition and dimension server infrastructure that simplifies the
and each server is automatically a processing Analysis Services can development, deployment and operations
web service. handle more data faster. of flexible business solution.
● A light-footprint Win32 layer is ● Manageability. By integrating the For more information on SQL Server 2005,
available for backward compatibility management tools for the relational including Analysis Services Data Mining
with tools that work with Analysis engine and Analysis Services, the BI functionality, visit
Services 2000 on OLE DB for OLAP, administrator benefits from having a http://www.microsoft.com/sql/2005.
ADOMD, and ADOMD.Net. single uniform environment for
managing Analysis Services along
Enterprise Capabilities with SQL Server. With SQL
Analysis Services 2005 sets a new Management Studio, administrators
standard for BI servers in enterprise can easily script Analysis Services
scalability, manageability, and productivity: objects and operations/tasks.
● Scalability. Analysis Services 2005 Administrators can use a rich editor
scales to the most demanding for MDX and DMX queries. Profiler
analytical and reporting applications. can be used to trace, capture, and
With Analysis Services’ new replay Analysis Services queries
dimension architecture, UDM-enabled and other commands. Multi-
applications allow users to quickly Instancing, enhanced backup and
perform rich and intuitive adhoc restore, synchronization of databases
analysis using hundreds of across servers, and improved
dimensions and hierarchies. fine-grained administrative
Hierarchies, whether flat or multilevel, permissions are some of the new
make it easier for the users to manageability tools available.
navigate and query UDMs with ● Productivity. Integrated with Visual
hundreds of millions of members. Studio, Analysis Services intuitive
The new architecture also removes wizards and editors provide a true

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