Some of the huge news here is that as of SP1, the following features that were one exclusive to the Enterprise Edition of SQL Server are now available in Standard and Web Editions: Change Data Capture, database snapshots, column stores, table partitioning, data compression, in-memory OLTP (Hekaton), Always Encrypted, Polybase, fine-grained auditing, multile Filestream containers. I wish I had access to all of these features back when I was building an app that was required to support SQL Server 2012 Standard Edition.