"Katmai"

• Maximized Security
• Enterprise wide management through policies
• Added Reliability with Database Mirroring
• Resource Governor - New Resource Manager
• Provides Dynamic Development with .Net Framework 3.0
• Entity Data Model - Data access using Business Entities rather then Database object
• Access Anywhere - Store locally, when available Synchronize
• Content Independent - Store and Retrieve any type of XML document
• Location based Data - Spatial data types helps building location based applications
• Office Integration - Microsoft Office System integration
• Data Warehousing - Support for growing volumes of data with Integration Services
• Analysis Services - With Analysis Services achieveing the BI with accurate analysis is no more difficult
• Reporting Services - Reports of any size with rich formatting, plus accessing these reports from Office System has become easy. Either use Reporting Designer or Microsoft Word and publish directly to Office Sharepoint Server.

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