Business Intelligence in MOSS 2007
As discussed earlier in the chapter, Microsoft provides a number of BI offerings ranging from SQL Server Analysis Services (SSAS) to PerformancePoint Server 2007. Figure 3-17 provides an overview of the different BI offerings from Microsoft. You can see from this figure that the BI components within MOSS 2007 (SharePoint Server in the figure) comprise a number of different options, including reports, dashboards, Excel workbooks, and so on. MOSS also represents the primary entry point and delivery mechanism for the BI offerings that are located beneath the SharePoint layer.
Because we’re discussing Office Business Applications in this chapter, we’ll focus on those BI features built into Microsoft Office SharePoint ...
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