Beginning SharePoint® 2010: Building Business Solutions with SharePoint

Chapter 16. Business Intelligence and Insights

WHAT YOU WILL LEARN IN THIS CHAPTER:

• The different types of business intelligence tool sets available in SharePoint

• Work with the out-of-the-box business insight features to configure charts, graphs, and spreadsheets

• Use Visio to publish content to a Visio Services web part

Business intelligence (BI) and insights are the ways that you can help provide tools that bring information directly to the users through a single interface. There are several different concepts that you will dig into throughout this chapter. We will look at how to get started and how to start bringing immediate value to the organization. In case you are just getting started with business intelligence, we will also look at ways to progressively incorporate these features into your organization. Once you have completed this chapter, you should have a good handle on the following topics:

• Defining business intelligence

• Working with Excel Services

• Using the Chart web part

• Working with Visio Services

• Working with KPI features

• Understanding PerformancePoint features

GETTING STARTED

The first step to getting started with business insights is understanding what they are and how you are planning to use them within your organization. Business insights is a very common buzz phrase, the type that your CEO will hear in a demonstration and march directly into your office explaining that you must have KPI and charts and dashboards and you need them immediately. While it is true that all of ...