IN2BI

Microsoft published the licensing options and prices. Two aspects stand out:

• A new edition: Business Intelligence (between Standard- and Enterprise Edition)
• A move to core based licensing (from processor based)

The main editions and the differences in functionality:

Standard Edition:

• Basic OLTP
• Basic Reporting & Analytics
• Programmability
• Manageability
• Basic High Availability

Business Intelligence Edition:

Standard Edition +:

• Data Quality Services
• Master Data Services
• Power View
• PowerPivot for Sharepoint Portal Server
• Semantic model, advanced analytics

Enterprise Edition

Business Intelligence Edition +:

• Advanced Security
• Advanced High availability
• ColumnStore indexing
• Compression
• Partitioning

US Pricing:

This is an overview of the expected prices: