The vast majority of SAP Business One installations are operated as Database MS SQL Server. That is why it is always interesting to see what Microsoft intends to do with this product.
Now has Microsoft released a pre-release version of the product, previously codenamed the Denali heard.
A joint development environment ("Juneau") for database, reporting and web software under the umbrella of Visual Studio was announced as a new feature.
In addition, new top values are to be achieved in terms of maximum availability.
In future, a web interface will be available for reports, which will allow their creation and editing with Silverlight support.
A so-called Community Technology Preview of Denali can be downloaded from download here