Application Platform

As managing vice president, Rob Helm covers Microsoft collaboration services and client software. His 25-plus years of experience analyzing Microsoft’s... more

Several server products, tools, and Windows components help developers build applications on the Microsoft platform. They include the SQL Server database product, the Visual Studio integrated development environment, the .NET Framework and Silverlight runtime platforms, the BizTalk Server application integration platform, and the Commerce Server platform for e-commerce sites. The Visual Studio tools and the .NET Framework development platform received significant updates in Apr. 2010, including improvements for collaborative development and revisions to the .NET Framework Common Language Runtime (CLR).

SQL Server

The SQL Server software consists of a database management system and a business intelligence (BI) platform. Key components included in the product are as follows:

Integration Services, which extracts data from operational systems for analysis
BI features, which enable the discovery of patterns in business data
Reporting Services, which enable the design and distribution

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