Discover when you need to use a SharePoint BI tool in today's article.
Excel 2010
As you might be aware of the fact that Excel 2010 is an analysis tool and is the choice for viewing, performing analysis on, and creating reports about the data of a firm. For more information on Excel 2010, refer to Microsoft Excel 2010. We'll instead focus on Excel Services in SharePoint.
Excel Services
Excel Services is a SharePoint Server 2010 program or a service, which providesthe server calculations and rendering of the workbooks in Excel. This image might make clearer to you the working associated with the Excel Services.
Excel Services are used for the following:
- Real-time reporting to include parameter analysis
- Distribution of a workbook for analysis by different users
- A platform for generating up the business applications
Visio Services
The Visio Graphics Service is a service available on the SharePoint Server 2010 platform. It allows its users to share and display the Visio diagrams. The service also switches ON the data Microsoft Visio 2010 diagrams to be updated at specific time intervals from different data sources. You can refer to the image shown below to make the working of the Visio Services clearer to you.
PerformancePoint Services
PerformancePoint Services are available to explore in Microsoft SharePoint Server 2010. It is a performance management service, which uses different tools to analyze the business. It gives you tools to generate a dashboard and key performance indicators. Scorecards can also be produced with the help of the PerformancePoint services. PerformancePoint Services helps the people in a firm to make make business decisions that match suitably with the objectives and different plans of the company.
You can also perform some additional things with PerformancePoint services listed as follows:
- You can gather data from different and a large number of data sources to keep a track and analysis of your data.
- The visualization Decomposition Tree allows you to make the visual analysis of the higher data from a provided datasheet.
Find more information on SharePoint business intelligence here:
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ff394320.aspx
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