SharePoint 2010 Business Intelligence

Module 3: Business Intelligence Center

Overview

Business Intelligence Center

Lesson: Business Intelligence Center

Business Intelligence Center

KPIs

Dashboards

BI Integration Points

Business Intelligence Center

Included as part of SharePoint Server Site Definitions

Standard site definition with prebuilt dashboards and Key Performance Indicators

Can add multiple dashboards and KPIs Can be used as the starting point for building your

corporate BI PortalMany BI features can be activated on a non-BI Center site definition (Team Site)

Dashboards

A simple ASPX page in a library

Has a special content type tied to it Can be locked down via SharePoint Permissions

Can contain any number of:

Key Performance Indicators web parts Business Data catalog web parts Excel Services Web Parts Reporting Services web Parts

Designed to show data for a particular process

Sales Dashboard Manufacturing Dashboard Operations Dashboard

Key Performance Indicators (KPI)

A list type that renders various images that display the status of a particular measured event

Can point to any number of data sources

SharePoint list Excel Cells SQL Server Analysis Cubes Manual Entry

Can be customized to use your own images

BI Integration Points

Don’t let it fool you

BI Center is just a SharePoint site!Its up to you to make it a BI Site!

Reporting and Analysis Services (.rdl files and web part) Excel Services with PowerPivot (.xlsx files and web part) Performance Point integration (discussed later) Filter Web Parts (used to filter report data and implement

user context) Visio and Access Services Business Connectivity Services (BCS) GeoSpatial Data with Charts and Maps

What’s to Come

The Business Intelligence Center will be the center point of the course

As we move through the various modules, you will build components that will be added to the BI center, hence why we have introduced you to it here

Lab 1: Business Intelligence

Explore BI Center

Dashboards

Key Performance Indicators

Discussion

What does your BI portal look like today?

What should it look like tomorrow?

Review

Your instructor will ask a series of questions on this module

Summary

Use the Business Intelligence Center as your enterprise reporting portal for ALL users

You have to make it “BI”, it really is just a simple SharePoint site out of the box

Utilize KPIs for quick and easy decision making by your executives

Get more specific BI using all the great technologies provided by Microsoft and SharePoint 2010