SQL Server 2008 R2 delivers several breakthrough capabilities that will enable your organization to scale database operations with confidence, improve IT and developer efficiency, and enable highly scalable and well managed business intelligence on a self-service basis for your users.It supports data consistency across heterogeneous systems through SQL Server master data services, enabling high-scale complex event-stream processing through SQL Server StreamInsight, and supporting scale-up scenarios for the large available x64 and Itanium hardware.Enabling administrators to centrally monitor and manage multiple database applications, instances or servers, accelerating the development and deployment of applications and providing improved support for virtualization through Hyper-V with live migration in Windows Server 2008 R2.Expanding powerful BI tools to all users with SQL Server PowerPivot for Excel and empowering the class of business users to build and share powerful BI solutions with little or no IT support, while still enabling IT to monitor and manage user-generated BI solutions.