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 implement SharePoint. Each of these drivers amounts to a popular solution in today’s enterprise computing markets. Once an organization decides to pursue […]
An Inexpensive Method of Integrating Business Intelligence Features Into SharePoint 2013
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 with an inexpensive method of performing the systems integration required to deliver the desired functionality. With the release of this set for purchase, individuals and organizations can now access […]
Setting Up SQL Server Reporting Services Service Application for SharePoint Server 2013
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 his presentation on this topic with a video tutorial titled Reporting Services in SharePoint 2013 Part 1. This video is the first in 4 tutorials […]
Why Use Power Shell to Create, Configure, and Manage Excel Services for SharePoint 2013?
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 demonstrates some of the important steps required to enable and configure this service with SharePoint Management Shell (Power Shell) in a video tutorial titled Excel Services Configuration This video […]
On 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 explains in a video tutorial titled The Business Intelligence Semantic Model, this standard provides ” . . . a single format that we can promote […]
Excel 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 Himmelstein’s audio presentation in a video tutorial titled New BI Functionalities in Office 365 and SQL Server 2013 SP1). […]
A 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 will be included in a specialized technical training set on the features of SharePoint 2013 for Business Intelligence (BI) applications. On the topic of PerformancePoint, […]
SharePoint Server 2013 Includes Powerful Features for Gathering Business Intelligence
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. SharePoint-Videos.com has offered a lot of video tutorial content on this topic for SharePoint Server 2007 and 2010. So it make sense for us to offer a comparable set of tutorials […]
Broad 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, apparently, designed to provide LoBs with powerful capabilities to gather data to support efforts to build Business Intelligence (BI). For SharePoint administrators, […]
The 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 for the ” . . . Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 Single Sign On feature. Secure Store Service is a […]