A Practical, Hands On Demonstration of How to Visualize Excel 2013 Data with...
In a short, six minute and 39 second video tutorial titled Visualize your Excel data in SharePoint using Power View, Asif Rehmani, SharePoint MVP, MCT, and CEO of SharePoint-Videos demonstrates how to...
View ArticleUsing Power BI with SharePoint Online, Office 365
Organizations looking to maximize the impact of the data visualization features of MS Excel 2013 should think about leveraging team sites in SharePoint Online, Office 365, to provide users with a...
View ArticleIs Power BI the ‘Must Have’ Feature Organizations need to Hasten their Pace...
Microsoft’s promotional materials for Office 365 include the phrase ‘self service business intelligence’. This phrase was actually coined by Forrester Research, for The Forrester Wave™: Self-Service...
View ArticleA Look at PerformancePoint 2013
As Jason Himmelstein notes in a video tutorial titled PerformancePoint and SQL Server 2012 SP1, despite talk to the contrary, Microsoft® PerformancePoint is not “going away” anytime soon. This video...
View ArticleHighlights from a Power BI Success Story
SharePoint-Videos publishes a video training set on SharePoint 2013: Business Intelligence. Our training set is led by Jason Himmelstein, a subject matter expert on the topic of business intelligence...
View ArticleUsing Reporting Services to Collect Business Intelligence with SharePoint...
A combination of an implementation of SQL Server Reporting Services for SharePoint, successful creation of external content type; and, finally, building a set of useful tags for SharePoint’s Managed...
View ArticleTransform On Premises SharePoint Into a Business Critical Solution with...
Microsoft’s Business Critical SharePoint web site presents a series of high value solutions presented along with supporting success stories. SharePoint stakeholders may benefit from reviewing some of...
View ArticleMSDN’s Channel 9 for SharePoint Conference 2014 Offers a Video on the Topic...
Anyone looking for a broad overview of some of the new Business Intelligence (BI) features of Office365 and SharePoint 2013 may want to watch a 16 min video on MSDN’s Channel 9 titled SPCtv Business...
View ArticleBusiness Intelligence Systems can be Successfully Built on a SharePoint...
This is the latest in our current series of blog posts. In this series we provide readers with some familiar application drivers, which some businesses will want to capture should they decide to...
View ArticleAn Inexpensive Method of Integrating Business Intelligence Features Into...
Our video tutorial set, “SharePoint 2013: Business Intelligence” provides any organization looking to add truly useful business intelligence (BI) features to its SharePoint 2013 computing environment...
View ArticleSetting Up SQL Server Reporting Services Service Application for SharePoint...
Our set of video tutorials on SharePoint 2013: Business Intelligence would not be complete without a presentation of what’s new about Reporting Services for this latest server. Jason Himmelstein starts...
View ArticleWhy Use Power Shell to Create, Configure, and Manage Excel Services for...
SharePoint administrators will want to provide Business Intelligence (BI) stakeholders with as functional an interface to Excel Services from SharePoint Server 2013 as possible. Jason Himmelstein...
View ArticleOn the New Business Intelligence Semantic Model for SharePoint 2013
Business Intelligence (BI) stakeholders evaluating whether it makes sense to build BI systems on SharePoint Server 2013 need to get familiar with Microsoft’s new BI Semantic Model. As Jason Himmelstein...
View ArticleExcel 2013 is now the Best Solution for Personal BI
Jason Himmelstein sums up a lot of the new Business Intelligence (BI) features of SQL Server 2012 SP1 and Office 2013 in a short phrase: “Excel is now THE self service BI tool” (excerpted from Jason...
View ArticleA Look at PerformancePoint 2013
As Jason Himmelstein notes in a video tutorial titled PerformancePoint and SQL Server 2012 SP1, despite talk to the contrary, Microsoft® PerformancePoint is not “going away” anytime soon. This video...
View ArticleSharePoint Server 2013 Includes Powerful Features for Gathering Business...
Successfully capturing useful Business Intelligence (BI) is certainly one of the most popular motivators for public, private and not-for-profit organizations to implement SharePoint 2013....
View ArticleBroad Overview of the New Features of Excel Services for SharePoint Server 2013
With SharePoint Server 2013, Microsoft® has taken steps to better align the computing platform to service the needs of Line of Business (LoB) units. Several of the out of the box features are,...
View ArticleThe Secure Store Service for SharePoint was Built for SharePoint 2010
This is a second post on the topic of changes in Excel Services for SharePoint 2013. Let’s look at the secure store service for SharePoint. This service was built for SharePoint 2010 as a replacement...
View ArticleEquipping LOB Users with Report Builder 3.0 and SQL Server PowerPivot for...
This is our final post in a recent series. We have looked closer at Microsoft’s Report Builder 3.0 through a series of posts. In our final post on this topic we speak to an important benefit for...
View ArticleSome Background on the History of Report Builder 3.0 may be Helpful
In 2004, Microsoft® acquired a company by the name of ActiveViews, Inc. The asset that Microsoft was after was ActiveViews’ ” . . . ad hoc reporting system takes advantage of the power of Microsoft...
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