When it comes to making decisions by utilizing all the information, business intelligence with SharePoint Server can be useful to any organization. You can access useful information anywhere at any time. Whether it is on the desktop or the Web, Microsoft provides comprehensive business intelligence (BI) capabilities that present the right information, at the right time, and in the right format. By showing all the spheres of information, BI in SharePoint can increase the productivity and decision making level of your company. Microsoft SharePoint server combines a flexible, familiar interface like Excel with a powerful BI engine. Microsoft BI enables you to get your data at one location whenever it’s needed.

Features

Business Intelligence with SharePoint Server provides an infrastructure that makes it easy for decision-makers to access information anytime, anywhere. People can get up-to-date information where they work, collaborate, and make decisions, whether it's on the desktop or over the Web.

1. Excel-based Business Intelligence

Excel Services, part of Office SharePoint Server, extend the capabilities of Microsoft Office Excel by allowing broad sharing of spreadsheets, improved manageability and security and the ability to re-use spreadsheet models using a scalable server-based calculation service and interactive Web-based user interface. With Excel Services, you can:

• Secure and protect confidential information and maintain one version of the truth by locking down access at the server.
• Broaden the access and availability of spreadsheets by incorporating interactive spreadsheets into business intelligence portals, dashboards, and scorecards.
• Reduce development costs, and improve time to market by using Web services to access models and data contained in spreadsheets.
• Use Data Connection Libraries to provide an easy way for your users to share, manage, and discover connections to external data repositories without requiring any knowledge of the technical details.

2. Business data integration and discovery

With the BDC, you can:

• Search your business data as easily as you search your other content repositories. Office SharePoint Server provides an integrated, Enterprise Search experience across your enterprise data ranging from file shares, Web sites, Microsoft Exchange Server, Lotus Notes and line-of-business applications.
• Share business data using the Business data Web Parts that allow for viewing lists, entities, and related information retrieved through the BDC.
• Use convenient links that appear beside business objects returned from the BDC to easily create actions without custom coding that open Web pages, display the user interfaces of line-of-business applications, launch Microsoft Office InfoPath forms, and perform other common actions.

3. Dashboards and Report Centre

Create rich, interactive business intelligence (BI) dashboards that assemble and display business information from disparate sources by using built in Web Parts. These Web Parts include dynamic key performance indicators (KPI), Office Excel spreadsheets, Microsoft SQL Server Reporting Services reports and a collection of business data connectivity Web Parts that can visualize information residing in back-end line-of-business applications.

With the dashboard and reporting capabilities in Office SharePoint Server, you can:

• Manage reports, spreadsheets, and data connections consistently using the new Report Centre—an out-of-the-box site template and document library optimized for report access and management including a report library, data connection library, and a business intelligence dashboard template.
• Communicate goals and status to drive results using the new Web Part without writing code. The KPI Web Part can display KPI from Microsoft SQL Server Analysis Services, Office Excel spreadsheets, SharePoint Lists, or manually entered data.
• Easily access the business information you need by creating dynamic, personalized dashboards using integrated Filter Web Parts. Filters allow dashboards to be personalized by communicating shared parameters amongst Web Parts on a dashboard. The Filter Web Parts presents more relevant information to the user.

NGenious Solutions can develop applications which bring together critical information from various sources and make it accessible to large groups of users when it is needed. We also ensure the security of your data and information.

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