With its latest generation of enterprise platform elements, Microsoft has taken the "customer technology preview," or CTP, to a whole new level, releasing waves of new features into the hands of ...

Microsoft said that its latest Excel 2013 and SharePoint 2013 previews, released last week, are designed mainly to show off business intelligence features. The company said that installation of ...

While SQL Server 2008 was little more than a service-pack level upgrade, the 2012 version of Microsoft’s database has a boatload of new features and delivers solid performance improvements.

"Does SSDT for Visual Studio 2012 support BI project templates?" asked James V. Serra in a TechNet forum last September. Some six months later, the answer was yes: "Hi James, the download to add the ...