SQL Server 2005 Gives Microsoft IT FeedStore Group Enterprise-Grade ETL and Encryption

Overview

When managers at Microsoft Corporation need information, they turn to a repository called FeedStore. As the largest software company in the world, with revenues exceeding U.S.$34 billion, Microsoft has critical need for the 2-terabyte FeedStore database. FeedStore, which pulls data from 39 internal sources and feeds some 500 subscribing applications, was running flawlessly on Microsoft SQL Server 2000 Enterprise Edition. But the company upgraded to SQL Server 2005 in order to take advantage of the next-generation, enterprise-grade features, tools, and enhancements. SQL Server 2005 Integration Services for Extract, Transform, and Load (ETL) processes is a major new enterprise-level feature being deployed for FeedStore.