Office 2013 and SharePoint application services
Learn about Access Services, Excel Services, Machine Translation Service, PerformancePoint Services, PowerPoint Automation Services, Visio Services, and Word Automation Services.
Overview and usage scenarios for Office and SharePoint services in SharePoint
Office and SharePoint services run on individual application servers in the farm and provide a wide range of functionality. The services that are described in this section provide functionality across the following scenarios:
- Business intelligence (BI) and Insights enable people to find, analyze, and share information about their work or business.
- Simple apps let users create basic apps that contain a reliable backing store.
- File conversion converts Word and PowerPoint files and streams to other formats.
- Translation translates sites, documents, and streams for multilingual support. The following table shows high-level scenarios that apply to the services described in this section.
Table 1. Scenarios for Office and SharePoint services in SharePoint
| Service | BI/Insights | Simple apps | File conversion | Translation |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Access Services | X | X | ||
| Excel Services | X | |||
| Machine Translation Service | X | |||
| PerformancePoint Services | X | |||
| PowerPoint Automation Services | X | |||
| Visio Services | X | |||
| Word Automation Services | X |
In this section
Use the links in Table 2 to learn more about developing with the Office and SharePoint services described in this section: Access Services, Excel Services, Machine Translation Service, PerformancePoint Services, PowerPoint Automation Services, Visio Services, and Word Automation Services.
Table 2. Overview of Office and SharePoint services in this section
| Service | Description |
|---|---|
| Machine Translation Service See Machine Translation Services in SharePoint | Provides automatic machine translation of sites, documents, and sites. |
| PerformancePoint Services See PerformancePoint Services in SharePoint | Creates and publishes dashboards that contain interactive data visualizations (such as scorecards and reports) that enable people to monitor and analyze their business performance. |
| PowerPoint Automation Services PowerPoint Automation Services in SharePoint | Provides unattended, server-side conversion of PowerPoint presentations into other formats. |
| Visio Services See Visio Services in SharePoint | Enables users to view and interact with Visio drawings stored on SharePoint sites. |
| Word Automation Services See What's new in Word Automation Services for developers | Provides unattended, server-side conversion of documents that are supported by Word. |