Business intelligence planning (SharePoint Server 2010)

 

Applies to: SharePoint Server 2010 Enterprise

In this section:

• Business intelligence basics (SharePoint Server 2010)

  Business intelligence applications and tools enable you to organize your vision of organizational goals, processes, and performance requirements in a useful manner, and to present that data as meaningful information.

• Excel Services overview (SharePoint Server 2010)

  Microsoft Excel 2010 is designed to help you analyze business data and increase business intelligence. Excel Services in Microsoft SharePoint Server 2010 is a Microsoft SharePoint Server shared service that you can use to publish Microsoft Excel 2010 workbooks on SharePoint Server.

• Plan for PerformancePoint Services (SharePoint Server 2010)

  This section describes how to plan for PerformancePoint Services within a Microsoft SharePoint Server 2010 environment.

• Plan for Visio Services (SharePoint Server 2010)

  This section describes planning considerations for Visio Services in Microsoft SharePoint Server 2010.

• Plan for BI Indexing Connector (SharePoint Server 2010)

  This section describes planning considerations for Microsoft Business Intelligence Indexing Connector.

• Understanding planning solutions and scenarios (white paper)

  This white paper provides direction and samples for developing a Business Intelligence solution with planning, budgeting, and forecasting capabilities for financial, human resources, and other departments inside an organization.

• Business Intelligence Competency Center (BICC) - encoding and Unicode considerations (white paper)

  This white paper describes best practices and standards for encoding and using Unicode in BICCs.