This document summarizes Microsoft's business intelligence (BI) tools for SharePoint 2010, including Excel, PowerPivot, Excel Services, Visio Services, PerformancePoint, and Reporting Services. It provides an overview of how each tool can be used to gather, analyze, and present business data in SharePoint. The document also outlines new features for some of the tools in areas like multi-user editing, interactive pivot tables, and reporting on SharePoint lists.

1. SharePoint 2010: Business Insights Presented by: JD Wade, SharePoint Consultant, MCTS Mail: jd.wade@hrizns.com Blog: http://wadingthrough.com LinkedIn: JD Wade Twitter: http://twitter.com/JDWade

2. Agenda Where’s the Data? Presenting Data Using MS BI Tools Strategy for MS BI Tools Use Platform Architecture SharePoint

3. SharePoint

4. SharePoint

5. SharePoint Gathering Data

6. SharePoint Gathering Data SSIS ETL SSDS SSAS

7. Excel and PowerPivot SharePoint

8. Excel End User Analysis Tool of Choice End User BI Begins Here Viewing, manipulating, performing analysis on intelligence or for creating reports Used for: Analysis, filtering and presentation of locally stored data Interacting with analytic models from multiple sources SharePoint

9. Excel What‘s New Multi-user editing Slicers New Development Support SharePoint

10. PowerPivot Extension to Excel that adds support for large-scale data Codename was Gemini Used to: Explore and perform calculations on large data sets for ad-hoc reports and analysis SharePoint

11. Excel Services SharePoint

12. Excel Services Server-side browser rendering of Excel spreadsheets Used for: Sharing Excel content across the organization while maintaining publishing control Generate a model to be broadly used (ex: mortgage calculator) Protect the intellectual property (formulas, etc.) contained within the spreadsheet SharePoint

13. Excel Services What’s New Support for more Excel functionality Interactive Pivot Tables Default Trusted Locations Delegate Service Application PowerShell SharePoint

14. Visio Services SharePoint

15. Visio Services Server-side browser rendering of Visio diagrams Used to: Build a visual representation of your business structures that are bound to data Represent processes, systems, and resources SharePoint

16. PerformancePoint SharePoint

17. PerformancePoint Performance management service with tools to monitor and analyze business data. IT easy-to-use tools for building dashboards, scorecards, and KPIs Used for: Creating dashboard, scorecards, and KPIs Providing drill-down analysis SharePoint

18. PerformancePoint What’s New Decomposition Tree Improved scorecards Time Intelligence filtering improved Connectable web parts KPI Details report Enhanced analytic reports SharePoint

19. Reporting Services SharePoint

20. Reporting Services Reports, Reports, Reports Can be published to SharePoint Used to: Deliver reports that publish at regular intervals and on-demand Deliver reports with well established requirements SharePoint

21. Reporting Services What’s New (R2) Can install add-in before SharePoint 2010 & one step integration Local Mode Report Viewing SSRS is reporting engine for Access Services reporting Native support for Reporting on SharePoint Lists Performance improvements ULS Logging SharePoint

22. Microsoft’s 2010 Insights Strategy

24. Q & A Presented by: JD Wade, SharePoint Consultant, MCTS Mail: jd.wade@hrizns.com Blog: http://wadingthrough.com LinkedIn: JD Wade Twitter: http://twitter.com/JDWade