There are major benefits awaiting organizations that modernize their data estate, including enhanced security and compliance, significant cost savings, and the ability to empower employees with business insights and advanced analytics capabilities.
With an out-of-date data platform, you could be…
- Missing out on game changing cost benefits
- Opening your business to potential vulnerabilities
- Falling behind without modern analytics capabilities
What does it mean to ‘modernize’?
Modernization means taking advantage of the latest technologies to create transformational business benefits. With Microsoft, you have the flexibility to modernize your data estate in the way that’s right for your business:
- Upgrade to SQL Server 2017: Move to a database with industry-leading performance and security—now on Windows, Linux, and Docker containers.
- Modernize in the cloud: Move to Azure to get greater cost efficiencies, state-of-the-art security, and powerful data and analytics services – with fully-managed database-as-a-service (DBaaS) solutions.
- Take a hybrid approach: Deploy across on-premises and the cloud to extend your infrastructure and improve business continuity.
Why modernize now?
Reduce cost & maximize your investment
Benefits of SQL Server 2017
- #1 database in Online Transaction Processing (OLTP) price/performance
- Unmatched Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) with everything built in
- Get a comprehensive solution at one-fifth the cost of other self-service solutions with comprehensive BI
- Reduce costs and create efficiencies with faster transactions with In-Memory OLTP and up to 100x faster analytics with in-memory Columnstore
- Cut productivity losses and speed query performance without tuning using Adaptive Query Processing
Benefits of Microsoft Azure
- Scale up or down quickly with pay-as-you-go, consumptionbased pricing and reduce licensing and hardware costs
- 50% of businesses reported reaching ROI at a faster rate with cloud applications
- Optimize costs for database workloads with different VM sizes
- 75% lower costs on software licenses with Azure
Gain state-of-the-art, award-winning security
Benefits of SQL Server 2017
- Least vulnerable of any enterprise database over last 7 years
- Encrypt data at rest and in motion with Always Encrypted
- Conceal sensitive data with Dynamic Data Masking
- Control access to database rows with Row-Level Security
Benefits of Microsoft Azure
- Meet a broad set of international and industry-specific compliance regulations
- Continuous security-health monitoring across Azure, on-premises, and public clouds
Solve bigger problems with advanced business insights
Benefits of SQL Server 2017
- Real-time operational analytics when you combine in-memory technologies
- Visualize data anywhere with Mobile BI
- Scale and accelerate machine learning by pushing intelligence to where the data lives with in-database R and Python analytics
Benefits of Microsoft Azure
- Leading AI innovation to discover insights faster
- Advanced machine learning capabilities at your fingertips
With the tech available to every business, modernization is now the norm. With a solution like SQL Server, you can reduce costs and maximize your investment, gain state-of-the-art, award-winning security, and solve bigger problems with advanced business insights.
If that sounds great but you’re unsure of how to proceed, it’s time to call the experts at Oakwood Systems Group at (314) 824-3000 or drop us a line in the form below. We’re industry professionals who have in-depth experience with helping businesses just like yours to plan, integrate, and execute with new technological solutions like SQL Server. Contact us today to find out more on how we can help your business.
