5. What is Business Intelligence?
Business Intelligence (BI) is about getting the right
information, to the right decision makers, at the right
time.
BI is an enterprise-wide platform that supports
reporting, analysis and decision making.
BI leads to:
fact-based decision making
“single version of the truth”
BI includes reporting and analytics.

6. • What happened?
Past
• What is happening?
• Why did it happen?
Present
• What will happen?
• What do I want to happen?
Future
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7. Microsoft Business Intelligence Vision
Improving organizations by
providing business insights
to all employees leading to
better, faster, more
relevant decisions
Advanced Analytics
Self Service Reporting
End-User Analysis
Business Performance Management
Operational Applications
Embedded Analytics
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9. Get more out of the products you own
Business User Experience Familiar User Experience
Self-Service access & insight
Data exploration & analysis
Business Collaboration
Predictive analysis
Platform
Data visualization
Dashboards & Scorecards
Business Collaboration Platform Contextual visualization
Excel Services
Databased forms &
Web Infrastructure
and BI Platform
workflow
Analysis Services
Collaboration
Search Services
Reporting
Data Infrastructure & BI Platform
Integration Services
Content Management
Master Data Services
LOB data integration
Data Mining
Data Warehousing

14. Share Diagrams in SharePoint
• Visualize your business intelligence with Visio diagrams
• Diagrams can be viewed without having Visio client installed
• Full Fidelity rendering with Silverlight, or PNG
Connect Diagrams to Data
• Use data graphics to build front ends for your real-time business
intelligence solutions
• Diagrams can be connected to various Data sources
Build Dashboards
• Use Web Part Connections to integrate with other SharePoint web
parts
• Use the Mashup API to fully customize your dashboards and
manipulate data

15. Top Features:
1 hour later…  Diagrams all live in SharePoint
 Diagrams viewable in the
browser
 Diagrams created once only
 Diagrams containing data
graphics are refreshable
 Diagrams give data context and
improve insights into the state
of a system

17. Visio Services
Custom Data Custom Data Web part
JavaScript Object
Model Providers Graphics connections
• Enables diagrams • Enables refresh • Enables the • Consume and
to participate in from non-native refresh of non- provide
mash-up data sources. native data information
applications. graphic shapes. between Visio
services and web
parts

21. Excel Web Excel Web
REST API JSOM
Access Services
Excel Proxy
User-Defined
Functions Excel Calculation Service
External Data Sources SharePoint Content Database
XLSX / b / m

23. Provides a browser based view of Excel
Allows interaction within the Excel Workbook
Expand / collapse Pivot Table, Sorting, Filtering,
Parameters
EWA integration with SharePoint filters enable
Excel based dashboards
Excel Web App

28. http://server/_vti_bin/ExcelRest.aspx/Shared%20Documents/File.xlsx/Model/Ranges(‘Sheet!A1’)
Handler – the ASPX that handles all Name of the file as you would Path inside the
Excel Services REST requests access it in SharePoint workbook.
Resource Name Allows access to…
/Model The workbook (the binary or the available feeds)
/Model/Ranges List of named ranges in a workbook (some of them)
/Model/Ranges(‘RangeName’) Specific range.
/Model/Charts List of charts
/Model/Charts(‘ChartName’) Specific Chart
/Model/Tables List of tables (Lists)
/Model/Tables(‘TableName’) Specific table
/Model/PivotTables List of PivotTables
/Model/PivotTables(‘PivotName’) Specific PivotTable