Business intelligence (BI) provides the right information to decision-makers at the right time through reporting, analysis and decision making tools. BI leads to fact-based decision making and a single version of the truth across the enterprise. Microsoft's vision for BI is to improve organizations by providing business insights to all employees, leading to better, faster and more relevant decisions through advanced analytics, self-service reporting, end-user analysis and business performance management tools.

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