SharePoint® 2010 Business Intelligence 24-Hour Trainer

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Controlling Your Reporting with Versioning, Auditing, and Content Expiration

Now that your reports are developed and deployed to your SharePoint site, you must ensure that the site can consistently provide a stable environment in which your users can work. To do this, certain policies and principles should be put in place that govern how and when items are developed and implemented. This should guarantee that things such as navigation, look and feel, and menus are common across the entire site. If the menus on one Business Intelligence site differ from that of another common site, imagine how much confusion would have to be resolved among the end users. In this lesson you will learn how to implement strategies that will assist you in applying governance policies and procedures in regard to your SharePoint design and deployment methodologies.

SHAREPOINT GOVERNANCE AS APPLIED TO BUSINESS INTELLIGENCE

As mentioned, when designing your SharePoint Business Intelligence solution and the corresponding objects, you and your team should adhere to a certain set of predefined policies and procedures. These policies and procedures are also known as governance. This governance is the driving force behind your design standards, version control, and auditing. When creating your PowerPivot Workbooks, SQL Reports, and PerformancePoint Dashboards, you should follow any design principles that have been defined as part of your governance.

Often the most difficult part of SharePoint governance ...