SQL Server 2008 delivers on Microsoft’s Data Platform vision by helping your organization manage any data, any place, any time. It enables you to store data from structured, semi-structured, and unstructured documents, such as images and music, directly within the database. SQL Server 2008 delivers a rich set of integrated services that enable you to do more with your data such as query, search, synchronize, report, and analyze. Your data can be stored and accessed in your largest servers within the data center all the way down to desktops and mobile devices, enabling you to have control over your data no matter where it is stored.
SQL Server 2008 enables you to consume your data within custom applications developed using Microsoft .NET and Visual Studio and within your service-oriented architecture (SOA) and business process through Microsoft BizTalk Server while information workers can access data directly in the tools they use every day, such as the 2007 Microsoft Office system. SQL Server 2008 delivers a trusted, productive, and intelligent data platform for all your data needs.
Microsoft Gold Certified Partner The Henson Group provides a dedicated practice that specializes in delivering SQL Server solutions that offer powerful, familiar tools to IT professionals, as well as to information workers, reducing the complexity of creating, deploying, managing, and using enterprise data and analytical applications on platforms ranging from mobile devices to enterprise data systems. Through a comprehensive feature set, interoperability with existing systems, and automation of routine tasks, SQL Server 2008 services provided by The Henson Group enable our clients to achieve complete data solution for enterprises of all sizes. (See further down for service descriptions.)
WHAT WE CAN DO FOR YOU: MICROSOFT SQL SERVER 2008
SQL Server Logical and Physical Site Architecture: The Henson Group assists clients in building detailed technical specifications for SQL Server hardware and the placement of SQL servers throughout the enterprise. This planning ensures optimum operations for SQL replication, performance, and security. THG also provides reviews of hardware and network requirements, high-availability reviews, and deployment of SQL with SANs or HP/IBM/Dell Cluster Servers.
Replication Strategies: The Henson Group designs and implements optimal deployment strategies, based on our clients’ requirements and risk tolerances. These strategies facilitate the successful deployment of replication (snapshot, transactional, and merge), full-text search, and RAID configurations.
Migration and Interoperability: THG assists in migrating databases from SQL 7, Access, Oracle, DB2, and Sybase to SQL 2008/2005. Interoperability capabilities that THG architects include access to SQL from Java-enabled applets using JDBC. THG also recommends settings for SQL Server distributed queries to query data in DB2 databases such as DB2/AS400 and DB2/MVS. THG can also recommend strategies for deploying the Oracle OLE DB/ODBC Provider and the Sybase ODBC Provider.
Reporting and Analysis: THG designs deployment strategies for migrating from Crystal Reports to SQL Reporting Servers. In the area of data warehousing and OLAP, THG consultants build and deploy OLAP cubes with varying dimensions so data can be stored and analyzed.
Enterprise Notification: Offering experts at creating highly customized SQL Server Notification Services solutions, THG also designs SQL Notification Strategies to interact with customers, partners, and suppliers in real time.
Capitalize on Data Assets: In addition to delivering a secure, reliable database for line-of-business and analytical applications, THG SQL Server services enables customers to get more value from their data by including embedded functionality such as reporting, analysis, and data mining. You can take advantage of this power and flexibility to deliver data to every corner of your organization at a fraction of the cost of some other systems.
Increase Productivity: Through comprehensive BI capabilities and integration with familiar tools such as Microsoft Office System, The Henson Group leverages SQL Server to provide information workers across your organization with critical and timely business information that is tailored to their specific needs. The goal is to extend BI to all users within an organization and ultimately to help users at all levels of the organization make better business decisions based on one of their most valuable assets—their data.
Reduction of IT Complexity: THG leverages SQL Server to simplify the development, deployment, and management of line-of-business and analytical applications by providing a flexible development environment for developers and integrated, automated management tools for database administrators.
Achieving Lower Total Cost of Ownership (TCO): The Henson Group’s integrated approach and focus on ease of use and deployment in SQL Server provides the industry's lowest upfront, implementation, and maintenance costs for rapid return on your database investment.
Security: THG provides security reviews for SQL Server to include package security for DTS, Stored Procedures, replication, ADO, Transact-SQL, cube, operational and ODBC settings.
Monitoring and Performance: THG assists clients in developing monitoring and performance settings for SQL, including: replication failures or process crashes; failed DTS imports; table blocking and locking occurs; slow performance; and optimizing stored procedures and pooled connections.