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Business Intelligence in 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.

This page provides information to help you learn about business intelligence in Microsoft SharePoint Server 2010.

 

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Image: Number 1Choose a business intelligence tool in SharePoint Server 2010
  
Image: Number 2Overview of SQL Server Reporting Services reports in SharePoint
  
Image: Number 3Data warehousing, OLAP, and Analysis Services for SharePoint 2010

Key Content

This illustration shows a farm deployment with four servers. The front-end Web servers run on IIS and host the Web Parts for business intelligence services, Web services, and proxy that are required for communication between the client and the service applications. To learn more, see Business Intelligence Basics, PerformancePoint Services, Excel Services, and Visio Services on this page.

Image: Business intelligence services in SharePoint Server 2010

Business Intelligence Basics


PerformancePoint Services


Excel Services


Visio Services

Model

A model is a poster that details a specific technical area. A model is intended to be used with corresponding articles on TechNet. You can download and modify the file to illustrate how you plan to incorporate SharePoint Server 2010 in your own environment.

Getting started with business intelligence in SharePoint Server 2010

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This model covers an overview of business intelligence in SharePoint Server 2010 and provides you with the following information:

  • An overview of each business intelligence service and when you might use the service.
  • Architecture for application of the business intelligence services and how they work together in a topology.
  • A list of possible data sources for each business intelligence service.

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