Monday, August 13, 2012

SharePoint Business Intelligence


Business Intelligence is a key area in today’s competitive business environment, access to right data at the right time is paramount to run a business successfully.

SharePoint Business Intelligence provides features to aggregate data from various sources both internal and external to SharePoint and present them in different ways based on the need of the target users.



SharePoint provides the following features to enrich the Business Intelligence.


Feature
Description

Excel Services

Integrates with Excel and displays graphical information as Charts, Pivot Tables, Dashboards etc.
SharePoint maintains Spreadsheet versioning, by integrating it with Document Library and provide versioning feature.
Key performance indicators (KPI) Web Part
Allows defining Key goals to be monitored and publishes the status of the key parameters in a dashboard. Can extract data from internal and external sources to display the status
Business Data Catalog (BDC)
Integrates with legacy systems like SAP, Siebel, Mainframe, Files etc and use the information from these systems to build rich reports.
Filter Web Parts
Helps to customize reports and dashboards, by allowing end users to alter the parameters and study the impact of the parameters, thereby helping in making key business decisions.

Data connection libraries

Library to help connect to external data sources and extract data without having to know much of technical knowledge about the target systems.

Report Center Site

A per-defined site template to publish Business Intelligence information like Dashboards, KPIs etc
Dashboards
Helps in building rich interactive dashboards by consolidating information from various data sources and present the summarized report.

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