Nov. 4, 2009 (PR Newswire) -- HOPKINTON, Mass., Nov. 4 /PRNewswire/ -- EMC Corporation (NYSE: EMC), the world leader in information infrastructure solutions, today announced expanded services and solutions for Microsoft Business Intelligence, Data Warehouse and Mission-Critical SQL Server environments. The new offerings demonstrate EMC's commitment to helping organizations fully leverage their information for better insight, decision making and competitive advantage.

"The performance and stability of applications -- whether line of business, transactional or business intelligence -- hinges in part on the smooth integration between the information platform and information infrastructure on which it is deployed," said Tom Casey, general manager for SQL Server at Microsoft Corp. "The combination of Microsoft software with EMC services and solutions makes it more predictable and more cost effective for customers to deploy these technologies as a scalable information asset in their IT organizations."

New Data Warehouse, Business Intelligence and Contact Center Services and Solutions

New services and solutions from EMC provide customers with a more robust portfolio of offerings to enable relevant data insight and analysis, as well as increased efficiency managing and storing their enormous volumes of data. EMC Consulting helps organizations maximize the benefits of Microsoft SQL Server 2008, a scalable Business Intelligence (BI) platform, through expanded BI framework offerings, including pre-built data models to support Microsoft Fast Track data warehouse configurations. This powerful combination accelerates the time to information and analysis, while reducing costs, increasing productivity and reducing risk. EMC Consulting also announces the availability of additional services focused on delivering analytics and insight for infrastructure and storage management and contact center management.

--  EMC Data Warehouse Services -- Enable organizations to create the most
effective methods for collecting, consolidating, and organizing the
business-critical data that is required for business intelligence and
pervasive analytics. EMC consultants expand Microsoft Fast Track
implementations using EMC's BI Accelerator Framework, which dramatically
reduces development time and effort.  The Framework contains prebuilt
and predesigned industry data models that present data to users in a way
that is consistent with how they view their business, dramatically
improving user adoption rates.