Microsoft 2007 manual Business Intelligence

Business Intelligence

Office SharePoint Server 2007 helps organizations provide business intelligence (BI) capabilities to every employee, so they can share, control, and reuse business information in order to make better business decisions. The BI features in Office SharePoint Server 2007 provide Web and programmatic access to published Office Excel spreadsheets, programmatic reuse of critical LOB data, and easy development of Web-based BI dashboards that can incorporate rich, data-bound KPIs, Web Parts, and published spreadsheets.

Feature Area	Feature Description
Web Access to Published	Office Excel 2007 Services help information workers publish
Spreadsheets	spreadsheets to SharePoint sites, including spreadsheets that
New
	incorporate powerful new client capabilities such as data
	visualization and richer PivotTable views and PivotChart views.
	Users require no additional software to access these interactive
	spreadsheets in a Web browser, and all calculations are
	performed on the server.
Integrated, Flexible	Office Excel 2007 provides an integrated publishing experience
Publishing	that helps information workers easily choose what they want to
New
	show and how users can interact with their published
	spreadsheets.
Programmatic Access to	Excel Services provide a Web services model for
Published Spreadsheets	programmatically accessing published spreadsheets. Custom
New
	applications can send data to Excel Services for server-side
	calculation, and the results are returned to the custom application
	without exposing the spreadsheet’s business logic.
Data Connection Libraries	Data Connection Libraries are new SharePoint document libraries
New	in which organizations can centrally publish connection files to
	make it easy for users to find and use the data sources they
	need. Data connection files are easy to create and update, and
	solution designers can easily reuse them from within the 2007
	Microsoft Office system client applications, such as forms in Office
	InfoPath 2007.

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