Business Intelligence & Reporting

• Share, control, and reuse business information.
• Link to business applications such as SAP, SQL Server and easily publish reports.
• Store reports, data, connections and templates in the Report Centre at the organization or team level.
• Easily share Excel workbooks via web pages, but protect business logic.
• Create a central library of external data sources.
• Display customised Key Performance Indicators for different teams across the organization.

One of the most important areas for an organization is Business Intelligence and Reporting. SharePoint offers a number of key features that can be used by your organization to improve the quality of your reporting and ensure that key data and business intelligence is available to your decision makers.

The SharePoint Report Centre stores all your reports, data connections, and templates. By storing your reports in a central location you can make sure the reports are always available and you can control the level of access to each report, so as to ensure that the right people see the data. Your employees will be able to create and deploy reports, and can easily create web pages using the templates and data connections available to them in the Report Centre. Data Connections can include links to common business applications such as SAP, Siebel, SQL Server, Access and Excel.

A key feature of SharePoint Business Intelligence is Excel Services, which allows you to store Excel workbooks on a server and then publish any part of that workbook on a web page. This allows you to share useful data with partners, but you can prevent that data being passed on and protects your valuable business logic.