Analysis Services - Vision and Roadmap Update

At the TechEd North America 2011 conference in Atlanta this week, the SQL Server team is providing details on the SQL Server "Denali" release, including the upcoming public availability of a Community Technology Preview (CTP) this summer. As part of these announcements, we are providing an update on the SQL Server Analysis Services roadmap that was disclosed during the PASS 2010 conference last November (detailed here). In the past six months, we have been talking to many people in the Microsoft BI community - customers, partners, developers, and MVPs - to get feedback on the roadmap. We are seeing lots of excitement about the breakthrough innovations coming in SQL Server "Denali" and the new class of BI applications that it will enable. At the same time, we have learned that we need to be clearer about how customers can carry forward their existing BI applications and benefit from these innovations. Based on this feedback from the community, we've made a couple of adjustments and clarifications to the roadmap and vision, outlined below.