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Microsoft Sharepoint 2012 For Business Intelligence Solutions

The function of Business Intelligence software is to collect, organize, analyze and distribution business data for an organization as it helps to strengthen specific decisions about performance, costs, and any future ventures. In this article you will find a focus on BI capabilities SharePoint 2012 and SQL Server PowerPivot, Excel, and also SQL Server Reporting Services. Along with Microsoft SharePoint development has come Excel, SharePoint Servers serves as the backbone of the BI tools of SharePoint application development 2012 as it gives users a well known way of accelerating the collection and analysis of data. This allows users to publish any amount o the information through workbooks in Excel by way of email or through the features of SharePoint Server’s Excel Services. Some may find that they prefer Excel Services since it allows a number of advantages. It is possible for administrators to restrict some user access to specific information and if they prefer grant only read only rights or even omit data that is sensitive. At the same time they can allow access to secured users and sort data as administrators create provisions for automated distribution lists and version control. Excel Services can also be used by SharePoint for creating various charts and graphs for quick visualization of data. The capabilities of Excel can be additionally expanded by SQL Server PowerPivot. Using PowerPivot, users are able to collect and analyze data that comes form a broader source and work in larger sets of data. Additional sources are Oracle, Access, Analysis Service Cube, Teradata, and a number of other feeds for data. In turn this data can be integrated by users into corporate data which allows for much easier collaboration. All required caches are constructed by SharePoint and allows users the ability to access and publish any data they wish through a web browser. Well known Excel features are also incorporated into PowerPivot. Those features are PivotSlicers, PivotChargs, and Slicers. The theory is that if users understand Excel they can work their way through most of PowerPivot. SQL Server Reporting Services is offered by SharePoint 2012, and is a server based platform which is capable of managing and creating parameterized and static reports. SRSS can be configured by administrators for automatic generation and distribution of such reports, and allows analysis and interaction with the data by users. Reports can also be linked to each other which allows for a much deeper analysis when that becomes necessary. SRSS even allows for formatting and delivery of customization which grants administrators the ability to adapt them to certain groups or single users. Some of the formats that can be used are Microsoft Word, PDF, Excel, HTML, Tiff images and XML while at the same time the methods of delivery are comprised of email, file share, direct-to-printer, and portal services. Business Intelligence is always refining and exploring data while it keeps team members working on a project updated and on the same track. The advantage of SharePoint 2012 is that it uses the familiar Excel as it presents organized data by way of Excel Services, while PowerPivot provides users with the ability to increase their sources of data, and simultaneously letting them work with increased information. Administrators are sure to find that with SRSS’s capability of creating customized reports that SharePoint 2012 is more than adequate for their needs for BI.