Project Barcelona

After dropping the Microsoft Business Intelligence Indexing Connector, Microsoft is working on an advanced content crawler, code-named Project Barcelona, that will index BI content, such as SQL Server, Excel, SharePoint, Reporting Services, Analysis Services, SSIS. Although initially aimed at DBA/ETL developers, its ambitions go well beyond that. According to the team blog, “At the end of the day, we want to build a set of tools that makes managing the modern enterprise data topology significantly easier – so we strongly believe we will need significant feedback before landing on the right design and feature set”. The blog doesn’t say when Barcelona will be released and how it will be implemented. I’d expect it to become a part of SharePoint and released alongside SQL 11 but this is just a speculation on my part.