SharePoint Business Intelligence (BI)

 Microsoft has beautifully emerged BI reporting and Business Analytics into SharePoint to transform raw data into useful information. This information can be further used to analyze various factors involved in business like sales, growth, profit, reporting etc. BI tools help to get the dynamic results. The business intelligence capabilities are achieved by combining SharePoint with Microsoft Office or Microsoft SQL Server Capabilities. BI helps your organization to centralize your reports, connections, scorecards, Apps, Site Pages etc.

Business intelligence in SharePoint includes the following features:

• Excel Services
• Performance Point services
• Visio Services
• Power BI
• SQL Server Reporting Services

Excel Services

Excel Service helps you to generate reports in Excel. It enables the user to view and interact with the spreadsheet. User can refresh the Excel workbooks in the browser window while he opens the document which will help to get the fresh data, he can schedule the refresh or as needed. With the help of this users can share the centrally managed data that are published to SharePoint. Excel services helps you to display data in SharePoint Site. It helps to collaborate worksheets in real time. User can secure all the parts of the Spreadsheet.

There are Advance Excel & Power Pivot features which will help create dynamic reports easily using tools like Slicers, Pivot Charts and Pivot Tables. It helps to scale hundreds of millions of records via velocity engine which is very fast. User can easily connect to multiple data sources which will help to handle and manage infinite number of records very easily.

Performance Point

It is a component of the Microsoft SharePoint Server. It is used to display dashboards in SharePoint. With the help of this user can create rich, context-driven dashboards, reports, scorecards etc. to aggregate data and content. It includes WYSIWYG Dashboard designer which can allow secure access to the limited data by the data managers. User can apply filters to all the components of dashboards. It has a “Dashboard designer” which helps to build the dashboards using SSRS, Power Pivot, Excel, Scorecards and Analytic Charts/Grids. Score carding & Analytic Charts/Grids are two great features. It uses the effective username for per user authentication & allows for robust security to the end user. It is can integrate with multidimensional data sources. Various themes are available for designing the Dashboards.

Visio Services

Visio Services are helpful when user wants to create & share the dynamic diagrams with external data connected to it Visio with a highly graphical interface. It provides secure access to the data which will restrict unauthorized users to view the data. These diagrams can be integrated with the SharePoint applications. It is very easy to use. User can upload the diagrams to SharePoint document library. User can view and share all the parts of the diagram. Users can add explanatory comments to a Visio Drawing combined on the web via Visio Services in full-page rendering mode. User can refresh and recalculate data.

Power BI

Power BI is the cloud-based service for office 365. It works together with Excel & helps to provide a complete Self Service analytics solution. With the help of Excel user can combine the data in the form of a model and analyze it. User can collaborate and access the reports created in excel. User can easily set up an online gallery to ask the question & get live communicating answers through data visualization. It uses the natural query language. User can access everything from mobile as well.

SQL Server Reporting Services (SSRS)

SSRS is a server-based platform. User can create static as well as parameterized reports. It is built using visual studio. It is accessed via portals. It can be distributed & exported. It helps to create structured with Microsoft 365 services USA reporting. User can fetch the live data from SQL server and generate the dynamic report.