SQL Server 2012 Launch — Partner Press Reference Sheet
Partner
PR Contact:
Hadley Weinzierl
hadley.weinzierl@emc.com
Company Description
Microsoft SQL Server 2012
Solution Integration/Solution
Overview
Quick Facts/Quotes
With 21 Microsoft Partner of the Year awards
and more than 16 Microsoft Gold competencies,
EMC Corp. helps customers transform IT and
confidently leverage cloud computing for
Microsoft SQL Server.
EMC will provide broad technology
support, new Proven™ Solutions and
Consulting Services for Microsoft SQL
Server 2012 to help make SQL Server
ready for mission-critical datacenter
applications.
EMC has proven expertise and leadership
in mission-critical app environments
(Source: IDC Storage User Demand
Study, 2011 – Spring Edition: Unlocking
the Minds of Storage Users, doc
#230148, September 2011.)
By leveraging EMC best-in-class
technology and services with the
latest SQL Server functionality,
customers can increase performance
and maximize data availability at a
lower cost.
EMC Infrastructure Effect For Microsoft
SQL Server:
 Deliver increasing levels of
services for mission-critical apps
 Enable more efficiency and
lower TCO
 Supports MS 9S & protection,
performance
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The HP and Microsoft global strategic alliance is
one of the longest-standing alliances of its kind
in the industry. Its goal is helping businesses
around the world improve services through
innovative technologies.
New EMC Consulting Services provide
customers with a defined path for
seamless migration and adoption of
SQL Server 2012 and help establish a
platform to turn SQL Server data into
business intelligence (BI) and
competitive advantage.
HP and Microsoft are collaborating on
SQL Server 2012 solutions. HP is also
providing leadership in SQL Server
solutions and readiness for SQL Server
2012.
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PR Contact:
Beth Bilal
bbilal@hp.com
PR Contacts:
Cindy McKendry
SAP AG helps companies of all sizes and
industries run better. From back office to
boardroom, warehouse to storefront, desktop to
mobile device, SAP empowers people and
organizations to work together more efficiently.
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Through cooperation on SQL
Server 2012, Microsoft and
SAP are helping organizations
achieve mission-critical
confidence by running SAP
applications on the SQL
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More than 35,000 SAP
installations are on SQL Server.
Hundreds of SAP customers
have a SQL Server database size
greater than 1 TB even when
using SQL Server Database
cindy.mckendry@sap.com
Server platform. More than
35,000 installations of SAP
applications run on Microsoft
SQL Server, and more than
75,000 SAP installations run
on the Windows platform.
The solutions are optimized
to work within SAP
landscapes — they are
scalable, high-performing and
highly available.
Jason Loesche
j.loesche@sap.com
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Compression.
The largest database volumes of
SAP customer implementations
are close to 20 TB
uncompressed.
More than 75,000 SAP
installations are on the
Windows Server platform.
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PR Contact:
Charlie Zaragoza
charlie.zaragoza@avanade.com
Accenture and Avanade blend in-depth
Microsoft expertise, global scale and cloudbased capabilities to build industry-specific
solutions based on Microsoft SQL Server 2012
and the SQL Appliance platform for energy,
financial services and retail organizations.
In this Virtual Launch Event,
case studies of customers
Accenture, BMW Egypt
(EMEA), EMI Music (EMEA),
FUJIFILM (APJ), Arçelik
(EMEA), CSR Limited (APJ),
Kimball International (NA)
and Lockheed Martin (NA)
running SAP solutions on SQL
Server will be highlighted,
and details will be provided
on how Microsoft runs its
own business on SAP
solutions. For specific
information, please see the
SQL Server for SAP page.
Avanade Intelligent Warehousing,
built on Microsoft SQL Server 2012,
provides the agile, iterative approach
needed to reduce cost and risk while
ensuring that everyone in your
organization can make informed
decisions using the same data.
Our solution provides easily
understood visuals of reliable, relevant
information using Microsoft Power
View. With a deeper understanding of
your organizational data, you can
effectively streamline operations,
increase customer satisfaction and
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gain competitive advantage.
The Intelligent Warehousing solution
mitigates the risks and failures of data
warehouse implementations because
our data models are based upon
global experience. Working with you,
we create a road map, enabling
business process functionality and
analysis that speeds the delivery
because baseline elements have been
defined.
PR Contact:
Jessica Johannes
Jessica.Johannes@netapp.com
NetApp creates innovative storage and data
management solutions that deliver both
outstanding cost efficiency and business
performance breakthroughs. Discover our
passion for helping organizations around the
world go further, faster at netapp.com.
Avanade Intelligent Warehousing
solution value:
* Fast time to market
* Low total cost of ownership
* Improved business performance
NetApp storage solutions are built on
a unified architecture and help
companies cut costs, increase
availability and improve data
portability with SQL Server 2012.
Cut costs. NetApp helps companies
lower costs with storage efficiency
technologies such as space-efficient
SnapShots, Thin Provisioning, RAID-DP
and FlexClone copies for development
and test, as well as SQL Server
reporting services.
Increase availability. NetApp
SnapManager for SQL Server 2012 will
provide enhanced support for nearinstant backups and rapid restore of
SQL Server 2012 databases, including
AlwaysOn Availability Groups in SQL
Server 2012. NetApp Data ONTAP 8 in
Cluster-Mode also enables
nondisruptive operations and dynamic
scaling for storage infrastructure
upgrades and maintenance.
“Microsoft has given customers an
important new choice with enhanced
support for SMB in SQL Server 2012.
NetApp unified storage allows customers
to run SQL Server on SAN, and now also
on SMB file shares, to dramatically
reduce storage infrastructure and
management overhead. In
test/development environments, DBAs
no longer need to worry about SAN
connectivity to create zero-space clones
of databases in seconds, accelerating
productivity and time to market. The
increased flexibility of SMB makes SQL
Server consolidation and virtualization
easier, enabling additional cost savings
with storage efficiency, increased
utilization, and simpler HA and DR
solutions.”
— Phil Brotherton, vice president of the
Enterprise Storage Group at NetApp
Fujitsu is the leading Japanese information and
communication technology company offering a
full range of technology products, solutions and
services.
• Mission-critical confidence
• Complete data warehouse solutions
• Cloud on your terms
PR Contact:
Laura Bonamici
Laura.Bonamici@ts.fujitsu.com
Decades of collaboration between Microsoft and
Intel Corporation deliver datacenter innovations
with industry-leading performance, agility and
energy efficiency from Microsoft SQL Server
2012 running on the Intel® Xeon® processor
family.
PR Contact:
Suzy Greenburg
Suzy.m.greenberg@intel.com
Improve data portability. NetApp will
ease access to SQL Server 2012
databases on shared storage from
different systems and virtual machines
using storage area network (SAN) and
Server Message Block (SMB) on
Network Attached Storage (NAS).
Providing access to shared data on
NAS is as simple as mapping a drive
versus more complex storage
provisioning processes associated with
traditional SAN systems.
Fujitsu solutions highlights with
reference to Microsoft SQL Server
2012:
Collaborative performance
engineering. Microsoft and Siemens
collaborated to optimize performance
and scalability of Teamcenter and SQL
Server 2012, part of the optimized
ecosystem for the Intel® Xeon®
processor E7 family, and technologies
from all three companies complement
one another for excellent results.
Extraordinary scalability. As
benchmark testing scaled upward to
10,000 concurrent users, Siemens
Teamcenter and a Microsoft software
stack on the Intel Xeon processor E7
family ran with stable transactionresponse times and an average
“Customers who are already enjoying the
cost savings of running enterprise
computing applications on the Windows
platforms can now also enjoy the peace
of mind that Fujitsu’s FlexFrame for SAP
brings to entire SAP environments. The
seamless integration of infrastructure
and application management is a perfect
fit with Microsoft’s private cloud strategy
for business-critical applications.”
— Thomas Schröder, general manager,
Enterprise and Partner Group Microsoft
Germany
Performance and scalability. SQL Server
2012 and Siemens Teamcenter support
the largest Product Lifecycle
Management (PLM) deployments, with
up to 160 threads and four terabytes of
RAM in an eight-socket server based on
the Intel® Xeon® processor E7 family.
Mission-critical dependability. The
reliability, availability and serviceability
features of the Intel Xeon processor E7
family help systems recover from errors
to protect mission-critical
implementations of SQL Server 2012 and
Siemens Teamcenter.
Advanced manageability. Platform
processor utilization for SQL Server of
less than 13 percent.
Mission-critical enablement. SQL
Server 2012 introduces more than 175
new features, many of which benefit
mission-critical implementations of
Siemens Teamcenter and help take
advantage of the reliability, availability
and serviceability features of the Intel
Xeon processor E7 family.
PR Contact:
John Wise
john.wise@necam.com
NEC Corp. is a leading provider of innovative IT,
network, communications and biometrics
products and solutions that benefit businesses
and people around the world. For more
information, visit http://www.nec.com.
NEC is announcing that it has
engineered its Express5800/A1080a
(GX) scalable servers and
Express5800/R320a Fault Tolerant
servers to deliver the high
performance and availability
standards required to run missioncritical database workloads and large
analytic applications on SQL Server
2012.
NEC’s GX scalable servers for SQL
Server 2012 offer built-in support for
complex data types, greater
interoperability with varied platforms,
and common IT and development
tools.
NEC scalable enterprise servers
provide configuration flexibility,
capacity, reliability and performance,
plus virtualized, on-demand capacity
and self-service provisioning and
usage metering.
features help IT administrators
proactively monitor and manage systems
running SQL Server 2012 and Siemens
Teamcenter.
“SQL Server 2012 takes full advantage of
the scalability features of the Intel®
Xeon® processor E7 family: eight sockets
or more, 10 cores and 20 threads per
socket, and up to 4 TB of RAM in an
eight-socket configuration. The
processors help boost availability by
healing failing connections and
recovering from data errors, as well as by
supporting redundancy and failover for
key system components.”
— Pauline Nist, general manager,
Mission Critical Segment, Intel
NEC fault tolerant servers with lockstep
processing and redundant components
help ensure continuous uptime.
“The SQL Server 2012 on NEC platforms
is scalable to unique datacenter
requirements. Through our work with
Microsoft, our customers are able to
meet the high performance and
availability demanded from virtualized
environments while maximizing IT cost
efficiency.”
— Mike Mitsch, vice president, IT
platform products, NEC Corp. of America
PR Contacts:
Richard Maganini
+1 (847) 961-0662
rmaganin@opentext.com
OpenText Corp. is a global leader in developing
content and process management solutions for
the Microsoft ecosystem, offering solutions that
span archival, governance, document capture,
faxing, records management, business process
management, case management and more.
Peter Gorman
+1 (617) 669-4329
pgorman@opentext.com
Benchmarks show that on a single
instance of SQL Server 2012, OpenText
Email Monitoring for Microsoft
Exchange can process millions of email
per day, scaling to meet the needs of
the most demanding enterprise
customers.
Dell Inc. listens to customers and delivers
innovative technology and services that give
them the power to do more. For more
information, visit http://www.dell.com.
PR Contact:
Corie Pierce
corie_pierce@dell.com
OpenText’s core enterprise content
management and business process
management offerings will be using
SQL Server 2012 to ensure customers
benefit fully from the latest advances
in performance, scalability and
security.
Dell has a rich history of partnership
with Microsoft and is testing and
developing solutions and services in
preparation for SQL Server 2012
general availability.
Announced Feb. 27, Dell and Microsoft
have entered beta testing on the Dell
Quickstart Data Warehouse Appliance,
which is based on the new Dell
PowerEdge servers and Microsoft SQL
Server 2012.
The appliance is designed to help
midmarket and departmental users
easily organize, access and analyze
data, enabling them to take advantage
of BI to make more informed
decisions.
As part of general availability of SQL
Server 2012, Dell will be preparing
Fast Track Data Warehouse Reference
Architectures based on 12G hardware
configurations.
“Our customers are continually pushing
for new and more powerful ways of
dealing with the explosion of data and
content across their organizations. As a
Microsoft Global Launch Partner,
OpenText is well-positioned to help our
enterprise content management
customers take advantage of the new
capabilities in SQL Server 2012 around
performance, scalability, security and
information access. We see this
important new technology supporting
our mission to help enterprises claim,
control and capitalize on content.”
— Lubor Ptacek, vice president of
Strategic Marketing and general manager
of the Microsoft Solutions Group at
OpenText
Dell, historically Microsoft’s largest LAR
for SQL, views Microsoft as a key partner
for database solutions.
”Dell is extremely excited about the codevelopment, multiple points of
integration and services capabilities
developed in support of the first data
warehouse appliance based on SQL
Server 2012. With the Dell Quickstart
Data Warehouse Appliance, which runs
on SQL Server 2012, and the new Dell
12G servers, we’re able to make BI
accessible for the mid-market.”
— Ben Linder, executive director,
Business Intelligence and Data
Warehousing
Temenos Group AG is a global provider of
banking systems in the retail, corporate,
universal, private, Islamic, microfinance and
community banking markets, serving more than
700 customers in over 120 countries.
TEMENOS T24 on Microsoft SQL
Server delivers modern core banking
technology to enable banks to
accelerate innovation by reducing
time to market for new products, as
well as greater customer support, and
risk and operational understanding
with our market-leading BI offering:
Insight.
Temenos has won the Financial Services
Partner of the Year award for two years
running (2010 and 2011).
TEMENOS T24 on SQL Server 2012
delivers high scalability with a lower
total cost of ownership and increased
flexibility and agility to a market that
has traditionally been hampered by
legacy systems.
Dassault Systèmes provides businesses and
people with virtual universes to imagine
sustainable innovations. Its world-leading 3D
design software, 3-D Digital Mock-Up and PLM
solutions transform the way products are
designed, produced and supported.
In our recent benchmark, at peak
performance, the system processed
11,500 transactions per second in
online business testing and averaged
more than 10,000 interest accrual and
capitalizations per second during
close-of-business testing, processing
25 million capitalizations and account
accruals in less than 42 minutes. The
testing showed a near linear scalability
of 95 percent as the number of agents
was increased.
PLM Express support for SQL Server as
the primary database for on premises
to store product data for midsize
customers.
ENOVIA V5 and V6 support SQL Server
as the primary database to store
product data. SQL Server provides a
cost-effective enterprise platform. The
combination of the ENOVIA PLM
solution and Microsoft SQL Server
provides an easy-to-manage
centralized source of data.
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SolidWorks is the leading entry MCAD
solution on the market and is only
available on the Windows platform.
SolidWorks has an ISV royalty
agreement in place for SQL Server.
PR Contact:
Belinda Banks
(609) 750-9110
belinda@sspr.com
PR Contact:
Yvonne Donaldson
Office: (713) 335-5310
Cell: (713) 834-4089
ydonaldson@prospricing.com
Panorama Software offers a new generation of
BI solutions that leverage social decision-making
and automated insights to enable users to gain
insights more quickly, more efficiently and with
greater relevancy.
3DVIA Model Store is a new and
ready-to-use business solution for
brand manufacturers and retailers
that supports SQL Server as the
primary database to store product
data and virtual experiences. It
enables users to realistically simulate
retail settings inside immersive, lifelike
3-D environments to better imagine,
validate and deploy optimum
shopping experiences.
Panorama offers a comprehensive BI
suite built on top of SQL Server 2012,
including social BI, advanced analytics
and contextual discovery.
Necto allows users to work OLAP, inmemory, Excel services, reporting
services, etc., for a single unified
platform into their analysis.
PROS is the world leader in profitability
management and optimization software
solutions. With this software, companies can
increase revenues, market share and profitability
by removing uncertainty from complex pricing
processes and decisions.
Innovation is core to PROS’ DNA, and
it is in the early launch of the SQL
Server 2012 Rapid Deployment
Program. Its manufacturing,
distribution and services customers
are moving toward SQL Server as their
database of choice, based on the
quality of the technology and its price
and performance.
PROS has been managing “big data”
for more for more than 25 years, and
SQL Server 2012 provides additional
capabilities that will help customers
take advantage of this even more
powerful platform. PROS has
Necto is now available on SQL Server
2012.
Necto provides seamless integration for
Necto users on SQL Server 2012 and
allows Necto customers to connect to
their data leveraging the new SQL Server
In-Memory technology.
PROS’ support of Microsoft SQL Server
2012 will be prominently featured in the
next release of the PROS Product
Solutions Suite scheduled for Q1.
Approximately 80 percent of pricing
customers use Microsoft SQL Server, and
that number continues to grow.
“At PROS, we’ve managed big data for
more than 25 years, working with
customers to help them grow their
businesses amidst industry deregulation,
volatility in raw materials and currency
fluctuations, and today’s globally
competitive marketplace. We’ve seen a
capabilities that will be enabled based
on SQL Server 2012 technology.
PROS and Microsoft have a longstanding relationship, and PROS has
achieved designation as a “Globally
Managed Partner.” They work
together, gain access to early insights
and announce side-by-side at the time
of launch, which provides high value
to customers.
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PR Contact:
Ashleigh Young
Ashleigh.young@redknee.com
PTC enables manufacturers to achieve maximum
value from their product strategies with
software and services designed to optimize key
business processes throughout the entire
product lifecycle — from conception and design
to sourcing and service.
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Redknee is a leading global provider of real-time
converged billing and customer care software
for service providers around the globe. It serves
over 90 network operators in more than 50
countries.
As part of their strategic alliance,
Redknee and Microsoft conducted a
comprehensive performance and
scalability benchmark of Redknee TCB
running on Microsoft SQL Server 2012
and Windows Server 2008 R2. The
high-water benchmark testing was
conducted at the Microsoft Partner
Solutions Center in Redmond, Wash.,
in November and December 2011. The
testing included a real-world mix of
substantial increase in our customers’
interest in Microsoft SQL Server, and
today approximately 80 percent of our
pricing customers use the platform. With
the game-changing power of SQL Server
2012 and the strength of our relationship
with Microsoft, our customers will be
able to take advantage of new
capabilities on the PROS platform that
are enabled by this new version.”
— John Salch, PROS vice president of
Technology
Fast Facts
 Approximately 6,100 employees in
30 countries around the world
 18 global R&D locations
 1,300 dedicated service
professionals
 More than 800 partners, including
value-added resellers, enterprise
software and performance team
partners, hardware and system
integration partners, and service and
training partners.
 Founded in 1985
 Markets served:
Aerospace and defense
Automotive
Electronics and high-tech
Industrial
Retail and consumer
Medical device
With new customer demands, new
service offerings and increasing
competition, operators need agile billing
solutions to match their changing
business strategies. Redknee TCB is an
end-to-end solution that delivers
centralized BI, personalized subscriber
experience, and a full suite of billing and
customer care capabilities, leveraging
Microsoft Dynamics CRM and Microsoft
SQL Server and enabling operators
prepaid and postpaid transactions,
defined by Redknee, to represent
typical transactions for a global tier-1
communications service provider with
an extensive customer base. The
results of the benchmark testing were
extremely impressive and
demonstrated a near-linear
application scalability as the number
of subscribers increased.
PR Contacts:
Elisabetta Pierallini
elisabettapierallini@tagetik.com
Luca Pieretti
lucapieretti@tagetik.com
Tagetik is 100 percent dedicated to simplifying
and streamlining business processes for the
office of finance. Tagetik was named Microsoft
ISV/Software Line of Business Partner of the
Year for 2011.
At peak performance, the system
processed an average throughput of
1,249 invoices per second and
mediated an average of 113,402 CDRs
per second. The benchmark test of
250 million subscribers exceeded the
performance objectives on both
invoicing and mediation, generating
26 million invoices within a six-hour
billing cycle while mediating 4.9 billion
CDRs within twelve hours. In addition,
the test showed a reduction of storage
space up to 80 percent, significantly
reducing physical IO requirements.
The achievements of the relationship
between Microsoft and Tagetik during
the past several years include Tagetik
winning the prestigious Microsoft
ISV/Software Line of Business Partner
of the Year award in 2011, and the
launch of a major release of the
application platform named “Tagetik
4.0 Enabled by Microsoft SharePoint.”
Tagetik has been working with
Microsoft during the development and
testing phases of Microsoft SQL Server
2012, allowing Tagetik’s customers to
take full advantage of the
improvements and enhancements by
fully leveraging the new SQL Server
2012 features and the SharePoint
around the globe to differentiate from
the competition and maximize
profitability.
Redknee, Microsoft, NEC, Intel and X-IO
work together to provide solutions that
address the most demanding needs of
communications service providers
around the world in the most costeffective way, while offering the agility to
respond to the business and technology
opportunities of tomorrow.
The Redknee, Microsoft, NEC, Intel and
X-IO scalability and performance
benchmark proves that SQL Server 2012
can provide record-breaking
performance for Redknee TCB. These
results make the combination of
Redknee TCB, Microsoft, NEC, Intel and
X-IO technologies an increasingly
compelling proposition for even the
largest communications service
providers.
Tagetik 4.0 takes full advantage of the
brand-new Microsoft SQL Server 2012
technology, equipping the office of
finance with in-memory analytics, easyto-use dashboard capabilities and
powerful self-service BI.
New functionality in SQL Server 2012 will
provide customers with breakthrough
insight via managed self-service data
exploration and stunning interactive data
visualization capabilities.
“This release of SQL Server is another
example of how our strong technology
partnership with Microsoft benefits our
customers. The partnership enables us to
focus our efforts on what we do best —
front-end.
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PR Contact:
Pam Ferrill
parupert@cisco.com
Epicor Software Corp. is a global leader
delivering business software solutions to the
manufacturing, distribution, retail and services
industries. Epicor has more than 20,000
customers in over 150 countries.
New functionality in SQL Server 2012
will provide Tagetik’s customers with
in-memory analytics through the new
Analysis Services tabular models;
greater confidence with uptime,
blazing-fast query and reporting
performance; enhanced security
features for mission-critical workloads;
and greater decision-making
capabilities.
The Cisco Unified Data Center
provides a complete datacenter
infrastructure architecture for
Microsoft SQL Server environments. It
combines compute, storage, network,
security and management into a fabric
architecture that delivers outstanding
performance for business applications.
understanding and addressing the needs
of the office of finance — while
Microsoft focuses on what they do best
— providing high-performance
technology on premises and in the
cloud.”
— Dave Kasabian, corporate vice
president of Product Marketing at
Tagetik
Cisco Unified Computing System (UCS) is
an optimum platform for SQL Server
environments.
UCS is the fastest-growing compute
platform — 10,000 new enterprise
customers in less than two years.
The Extended Memory capability in UCS
affords tremendous performance and
scalability options for enterprise
customers.
Epicor is excited to support Microsoft
SQL Server 2012 in employing the rapid
data exploration and visualization
capabilities Power View will offer.
Microsoft’s new in-memory capabilities
will afford much faster data analysis,
deeper insights and easier navigation for
customers leveraging Epicor Enterprise
Performance Management solutions. The
highly interactive, Web-based user
interface offers clever reporting and
analytics navigation that builds up data
graphically on the fly, while PowerPivot
for Excel 2010 with advanced analytic
capabilities will enable users to plow
through a mass of data in a familiar
format at much faster speeds.
PR Contact:
Mike McCabe
m.mccabe@tcs.com
PR Contact:
David Doll
ddoll@osisoft.com
Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) is an IT services,
business solutions and outsourcing organization
that delivers real results to global businesses,
ensuring a level of certainty no other firm can
match.
OSIsoft delivers PI System, the enterprise
infrastructure for streaming data and events,
with historization and presentation capabilities
that can scale and perform to the needs of their
customers’ operations and businesses.
TCS intends to provide Think, Build
and Operate offerings for its
customers around SQL Server 2012.
TCS is in the process of migrating the
Global Operations Solution to SQL Server
2012.
TCS is in the process of suggesting
solutions that leverage the new
features and functionality of SQL
Server 2012.
TCS has started the process of suggesting
SQL Server 2012 features as a road map
to existing customers, as well as to
enhance the existing applications.
TCS intends to develop, educate and
support solutions that leverage the
new features of SQL Server 2012 to
help improve the consistency,
stability, usability and operational
efficiency and to highlight features
that help reduce the cost of
development for TCS’s existing and
new customers.
OSIsoft, a Microsoft Global ISV
partner, has received numerous
Microsoft awards during recent years,
including “Sustainability Partner of the
Year,” “Business Intelligence 2010,”
“Global ISV of the Year,” and “Office
Business Application Partner of the
Year.”
Built on Microsoft technology,
OSIsoft’s PI System 2010 provides a
real-time infrastructure for data and
events. The combination of the PI
System and Microsoft products, such
as SQL Server 2012, empowers users
with familiar tools to break out of the
siloed data inherent in line-of-business
applications.
With OSIsoft’s PI System and SQL
Server 2012, manufacturing
companies and critical facilities can
establish a highly interactive, real-time
infrastructure enabling users to make
better, more informed decisions.
Synchronized with the release of SQL
Server 2012, OSIsoft has announced the
release of its PI Data Access 2012
integration suite, enabling customers to
immediately realize the benefits of the
new software.
SQL Server 2012’s advanced self-service
BI capabilities will be featured at
OSIsoft’s annual user conference in San
Francisco, April 23–25.
“SQL 2012 creates new possibilities for
our customers. The PI System helps our
customers work with huge amounts of
streaming operational data and turn it
into actionable information. SQL 2012
provides unprecedented ability to
integrate PI System data with business
data. The combination is going to
improve the ability to store data, make
sense of it, visualize it and, in the end,
make better decisions.”
— Jon Peterson, vice president of
Marketing, OSIsoft
PR Contact:
Tom Clary
(469) 365.6651
tom.clary@invensys.com
Invensys is a leading provider of automation and
information technology, systems, software
solutions, services, and consulting to global
manufacturing and infrastructure industries.
Invensys solutions are used by more than 40,000
clients.
SQL Server 2012 advanced self-service
BI tools will provide PI users with a
flexible, familiar user interface for
personal analytics — allowing users to
easily adapt their analytics, reports
and dashboard as new requirements
arise. Operational intelligence on your
terms.
Invensys Operations Management
enables clients to collaborate across
their systems and enterprises in real
time. The company’s products and
solutions help customers synchronize
operations from the plant floor to the
executive offices, extracting critical
data to make faster, better decisions
and more ably align production goals
with business objectives.
The company provides a unique
portfolio of open-platform solutions
spanning the controls floor to the
enterprise, including process control
systems, operations management
software and
collaboration/integration solutions.
Coupled with its partner network of
3,000 integrators, Invensys provides
unparalleled value to its customers.
Microsoft and Invensys Operations
Management have had a strategic
relationship, encompassing joint
product development, integrated
technology road maps and overall
philosophy toward providing
operations management solutions to
industry for more than 25 years.
In recognition of its achievements,
Invensys was awarded the 2011 ISV
Industry Partner of the Year:
New functionality in SQL Server 2012 will
provide Invensys customers with
superior high-availability and reliability,
improved development and
configuration management, and selfservice BI for better monitoring, analysis
and management of their real-time
operations.
Invensys intends to introduce an updated
version of its Wonderware Historian
product in support of SQL Server 2012 in
the latter part of calendar year 2012.
“The concept of self-service BI is huge for
manufacturing. Our approach to
manufacturing intelligence brings
together many disparate information
sources from process and production
systems so plant personnel can make
better business decisions in real time.
We want to make it very easy for the
end-user to consume, visualize and just
sort of make sense of that data by giving
it to them at the right time and within
the right context. We are encouraged
because we think we will be able to build
SQL Server 2012, which will help us
accomplish our goal.”
— Rob McGreevy, vice president,
platform and applications for Invensys
Operations Management
SQL Server is a foundational element
of the company’s Operations
Management solutions.
Bundles with some of the company’s
key Wonderware products, including
Historian, System Platform, InTouch,
Corporate Energy Management,
Intelligence, MES, IntelaTrac and
Workflow, as well as Avantis PRO
EAM.
SQL provides the real-time data
storage/archive and management. It is
the foundation for vigorous, real-time
reporting and analysis and allows
Invensys customers to achieve
proactive — not reactive —
Operations Management
improvements.
Quest Software simplifies and reduces the cost
of managing IT. Our solutions make solving the
toughest IT management problems easier,
saving time and money across physical, virtual
and cloud environments.
Quest advances its products with early
support for Microsoft SQL Server 2012
while innovating on Microsoft SQL
Azure to enable integrators with Quest
solutions to maximize SQL Server
capabilities, both on-premises and in
the cloud.
Quest uses SQL Server for more than 65
migration, management and
administration products that drive SQL
Server licenses, with 25 of those
products participating in the SQL SIP
program.
Quest vWorkspace exclusively uses
Microsoft SQL Server for its configuration
and reporting databases and typically
includes an Active-Active SQL Server
Enterprise Cluster that drives more SQL
Server licenses.
Quest’s Spotlight provides in-depth
physical, cloud and virtual SQL
diagnostics of enterprise health and
performance with automated
alerts/actions with integrated Xpert
tuning while LiteSpeed reduces your
storage footprint by as much as 85
PR Contact:
Rachel Ferry
rachel.ferry@rackspace.com
Rackspace® Hosting, the service leader in cloud
computing and a Microsoft Gold Certified
Partner, offers its thousands of customers
running Microsoft SQL Server access to SQL DBA
support. More information is available at
http://www.rackspace.com.
Rackspace currently has a closed beta
program in place for select Rackspace
customers to test Microsoft SQL
Server 2012 beta software in a
development environment.
Rackspace participated in the
Microsoft SQL Server 2012 Rapid
Deployment Program and plans to
update its database product portfolio
to support SQL Server 2012 once
Microsoft launches SQL Server 2012
for general availability.
Rackspace provides best-in-class
support for Microsoft SQL Server,
enabling customers to use the rich
capabilities of SQL Server to improve
performance, increase operational
efficiencies, and save time and money.
With more than 10,000 servers
currently running Microsoft SQL
Server and a team of database support
specialists for customers requiring
more extensive database support and
consultative services, Rackspace has
developed deep expertise in SQL
database support.
percent more than other compressed,
full backup solutions.
As a Microsoft Gold Certified Partner and
a three-time Microsoft Hosting Partner of
the Year, Rackspace brings the latest
Microsoft technologies and expertise to
our customers. Currently in prerelease,
Microsoft SQL Server 2012 is the next
major release of Microsoft database
technology and will provide customers
with higher levels of performance,
availability and scalability, compared
with previous versions.
All Rackspace customers running SQL
Server in a dedicated hosting
environment receive Fanatical Support®
service and the following SQL Server
support:
 Installation
 Convenient monthly licensing —
utility pricing for SQL Server licensing
is available in the Rackspace Cloud
 Optional live database backup agent
 Basic troubleshooting assistance
 Standard maintenance plan
Rackspace also offers additional DBA
services, such as database assessment
and performance improvement services,
on a time and materials basis for those
customers who need even more SQL
expertise.
"We’re thrilled that Rackspace had the
opportunity to participate in the
Microsoft SQL Server 2012 Rapid
Deployment Program, and we’re excited
to be a part of the Microsoft SQL Server
2012 launch. As a Microsoft Gold
Certified Partner, Rackspace brings the
latest Microsoft technologies and
expertise to our customers. Rackspace
provides best-in-class support for
Microsoft SQL Server, enabling
customers to use its rich capabilities to
improve performance, increase
operational efficiencies and save both
time and money.”
— John Engates, CTO, Rackspace