September 2010
Beginner to intermediate
424 pages
12h 17m
English
book
Knight's Microsoft® Business Intelligence 24-Hour Trainer: Leveraging Microsoft SQL Server® Integration, Analysis, and Reporting Services with Excel® and SharePoint®
by Brian Knight, Devin Knight, Adam Jorgensen, Patrick LeBlanc, Mike Davis
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Deploying and Using Excel
Services
As you have noticed from the previous lessons on SharePoint, there are many integrated features
that allow you to use stand-alone Microsoft products in a web environment. Excel Services
is another feature that allows you to bring the capabilities of Excel into the web interface of
SharePoint so you can view, edit, and share Excel documents in a collaborative environment.
Most business users are familiar with and very comfortable building Excel workbooks, spread-
sheets, and calculations. Finding the data your end users need could not be any easier than with
the capabilities of Excel and SharePoint combined in Excel Services.
Excel Services allows you to view workbooks that are currently trapped in a shared folder by expos-
ing them on a web interface. Users will no longer need a direct connection to the Analysis Services to
view pivot tables and charts that are created either. Using a trusted connection, Excel Services gives
wider access to already created pivot tables that have been created from cubes.
The Excel Services architecture has three components: Excel Calculation Services, Excel Web
Access, and Excel Web Services. The Excel Calculation Service (ECS) is the engine of Excel
Services, which updates data from external data sources, runs calculations on Excel sheets and
loads the Excel document itself. Excel Web Access (EWA) is where the us ...
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