SharePoint 2007: The Definitive Guide
by James Pyles, Christopher M. Buechler, Bob Fox, Murray Gordon, Michael Lotter, Jason Medero, Nilesh Mehta, Joris Poelmans, Christopher Pragash, Piotr Prussak, Christopher J. Regan
The Report Center
The Report Center is used to contain and organize Business Intelligence elements such as Dashboards, Key Performance Indicators (KPIs), document libraries, and connections to external data sources. The Report Center is one of many site templates in the Enterprise site template group. Other Enterprise site templates include the Document Center, Records Center, Site Directory, and more.
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See Chapter 7 for more information on site templates.
The Report Center is completely customizable, providing access to page templates and Web Part pages, and allowing you to create and manage libraries, pages, and lists containing whatever business information you find necessary.
By default, one Report Center site is created when the Top-Level Portal site is created. However, a Report Center can be created for any group, department, or organization as needed. With appropriate permissions, information from the Report Center site can be accessed from any other site or site collection, allowing you to share your data with colleagues, customers, and associates.
The Report Center site template provides a single point of contact for anyone who wants the latest in your company's Business Intelligence reports. As you see in Figure 15-2, when a Report Center is first created, it is void of any content, allowing you to either add the default Web Parts yourself or to customize it with other selections.
Figure 15-2. New Report Center
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