Chapter 6. Business intelligence with Excel Services 2013

Excel Services in SharePoint Server 2013 is a shared service that you can use to publish Excel workbooks on Microsoft SharePoint Server. Using Excel Services in SharePoint, you can manage and secure according to your needs and share the workbooks among SharePoint Server 2013 users, who can open and interact with the workbooks in a browser.

Excel Services’s focus is on business intelligence (BI) scenarios. You can create Microsoft Excel workbooks that connect to external data sources, develop reports, and then publish them to a SharePoint document library. When a user opens the workbook from the document library, Excel Services renders it in the browser. To create and edit office documents ...

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