This document provides an overview of Excel Services 2010 including its key components, new features, and how it enables sharing and securing Excel workbooks through a browser. Excel Services allows users to share spreadsheets, build business intelligence dashboards, reuse logic from workbooks, and build reports without needing Excel installed. It consists of the Excel Calculation Service for loading, calculating, and refreshing workbooks, and the Excel Web Access web front end for interacting with workbooks in a browser without ActiveX controls. The Excel Web Service also provides APIs to build custom applications that integrate with Excel Services functionality.

1. Dinusha Kumarasiri

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Excel 2010
Excel & SharePoint
What is Excel Services
Excel Services Architecture
Components of Excel Services
What’s new in Excel Services 2010

3. • Why Excel
– Easy to use
– Large amount of data
– Graphical representation
– Business logic

4. • New Features in Excel
– Ribbon UI
– Improvements in integrating with Outlook
– Excel sparklines & slicers

6. • Sharing, Securing, Managing & Using of Excel
2010 workbooks
• Service Application in SharePoint

7. • Features of Excel Services
– Share Spreadsheet through browser
– Build BI dashboards
– Reuse of logic encapsulated in workbooks
– Report building

10. • Excel Calculation Service (ECS)
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Load spreadsheets & workbooks
Calculate spreadsheets
Call User Defined Functions (UDF)
Refresh external data
Maintain session state for interactivity

11. • Excel Web Access (EWA)
– Web front end for Excel Services
– Web Part
– Interaction with workbook using
• Dynamic Hierarchical Tag Markup Language (DHTML)
• JavaScript
– No need for ActiveX controls
– Can connect to other web parts

12. • Excel Web Service (EWS)
– Can use as an API to develop custom applications
– Excel Services REST API
– Excel Services SOAP API

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Security using Unattended Service Account
Windows PowerShell capabilities
As a Service Application
Trusted locations
Delegate service permissions
Multi user collaboration
PowerPivot add-on
REST & JSOM APIs
Slicers & Sparklines

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