Get Ready for Launch!
29th November

A major highlight of VSLive! is the 29th November official Australian launch of Microsoft SQL Server™ 2005, Microsoft Visual Studio® 2005 and Microsoft BizTalk™ Server 2006: the new generation of comprehensive, enterprise-grade platform and tools.

Are you ready to scale?

Microsoft SQL Server 2005 is the next generation data management and analysis solution that delivers increased security, scalability and availability to enterprise data and analytical applications, while helping to make them easier to build, deploy and manage.

SQL Server 2005 gives you:

• Improved enterprise data management - delivers highly reliable, secure and available applications to employees, customers and partners
  
  
• Increased productivity - achieve continuous productivity improvements by accelerating application development and automating routine processes with a scalable data management platform and integrated tools that reduce IT costs and enable users to focus on meeting strategic business needs.
  
  
• Greater business insight – provide scalable business intelligence putting critical, timely information in the hands of employees across the organisation. From the CEO to the information worker, employees will be able to quickly access and easily harness data to make better decisions faster

Are you ready to communicate?

Visual Studio 2005 has expanded to include Team System and significantly increased functionality in Visual Studio 2005 Professional Edition. Visual Studio 2005 Team System includes productive, integrated and extensible lifecycle tools that help software development teams collaborate and communicate through the development process.

This benefits you by:

• Reducing the complexity of delivering modern service-oriented solutions that are designed for operations
  
  
• Facilitating collaboration among all members of a software team, speeding development time and ensuring predictability and reliability of the development process

• Helping to increase productivity of the entire development team

Are you ready to connect?

BizTalk Server 2006 offers simplified deployment and an integrated development environment built on Visual Studio 2005 ensuring developers and IT professionals can quickly integrate applications and automate business processes.

Learn how the release of BizTalk Server 2006 (available January 2006):

• Can dramatically reduce the Total Cost of Ownership of business process automation solutions, helping IT Professionals to quickly deploy, manage and optimise business processes
  
  
• Builds on the power and reliability of the .NET Framework 2.0 and SQL Server 2005 to deliver mission critical, adaptive business process automation solutions
  

Launch Day Program

• Opening address from Microsoft’s David Treadwell (Corporate VP, .NET Developer Platform, Developer Division) and Prashant Sridharan (Senior Product Manager for Visual Studio)
  
  
• Technical readiness sessions for IT Professionals and Developers will showcase how these new technologies can be leveraged in your organisation
  
  

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