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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