12.2. Business Intelligence and the Report Center

As previously mentioned, the Report Center is the skeletal structure of SharePoint's business intelligence functionality, containing all the elements that comprise BI. This is a good opportunity to take a brief tour of the Report Center and become familiar with how it is organized. To get to the Report Center, go to the top-level portal site, and click Reports in either Quick Launch to your left or on the navigation bar at the top of the page. Figure 12.1 shows you what the default Report Center looks like in SharePoint.

Figure 12.1. The Report Center

As you can see in the center pane of the ...

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