This is the second in a series of posts on Microsoft’s Business Connectivity Services (BCS) for SharePoint 2010. A comprehensive set of video training content (approximately 1.5hrs of training spread over 11 topics) on Business Connectivity Services, SharePoint 2010: Business Connectivity Services is available for purchase on SharePoint-Videos dot com. Each video included in this […]
Successfully Implementing Business Connectivity Services is a Key Contributor to Better User Adoption for SharePoint 2010
Rehmani Consulting, Inc. offers a unique set of video training content on Microsoft’s Business Connectivity Services (BCS) for SharePoint 2010. This set, SharePoint 2010: Business Connectivity Services, includes approximately 1.5 hrs of technical training content on 11 different topics. The target audience for this training set are SharePoint Administrators, Developers, Architects and Information Workers. Either […]
Equipping LOB Users with Report Builder 3.0 and SQL Server PowerPivot for Excel 2010 can Alleviate Demands on IT Support Teams
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 enterprise IT support organizations: when line of business (LOB) users are successfully empowered with Report Builder 3.0, SQL […]
Some 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 .NET and SQL Server TM Reporting Services to allow users to easily unlock and explore data stored in a myriad […]
Power Users and Information Workers can Avail of Report Builder 3.0 Benefits With Reporting Services Add-In for SharePoint 2010
Broadly identifying likely benefits that line of business (LOB) organizations can obtain through the use of a tool like Report Builder 3.0 is not an easy task. But, given the past few posts to this blog, which we wrote to present the benefits to these same LOB organizations, as well as to the enterprise IT […]
Enterprise IT Organizations Using Microsoft’s BI Platform should Equip LOB Users with Training Content through SharePoint
Our video training content set, Reporting Services Using SharePoint 2010 and Report Builder 3.0 is available either for single user viewing, or unlimited enterprise-wide viewing. At a one time cost of $1995.00, we think that enterprises with a complex commitment to the Microsoft Business Intelligence Platform (which includes SQL Server 2008 R2, or SQL Server […]
Using SharePoint Designer 2010 to Manage the Reporting Services for SQL Server 2008 R2 Add-In for SharePoint 2010
Rehmani Consulting, Inc. offers a unique set of video training content on the opportunities presented to LOB organizations as well as enterprise IT to implement “no code” methods with Reporting Services 2008 R2 to build custom automated processes that can service organization-specific needs. The set of content, SharePoint Designer 2010: Reporting Services. To recap, Reporting […]
Use the Report Viewer Web Part for SharePoint to Display SQl Server 2008 R2 Data as a Report or Build a Dashboard to Display Multiple Reports
Microsoft’s MSDN web site offers a set of documents on the Report Viewer Web Part (Reporting Services in SharePoint Integrated Mode). For readers who are not familiar with how the term “Report Viewer Web Part” is used by Microsoft, it is important to understand that the same term is used for two very different set […]
Training Site Owners, Citizen Developers, and Higher Level Users of SharePoint 2010 in the SQL Server Reporting Feature Makes Sense
In the prior post to this blog we made a case for SharePoint 2010 Reporting Services as a particularly high value feature. To summarize, enterprises can certainly benefit from availing of SQL Server Reporting Services, which are based on XML, and, therefore, can be displayed (at least in raw form) with any of a very […]
SharePoint 2010 Reporting Services Add-In Delivers Benefits that can Drive User Adoption
In our opinion, Microsoft® greatly expanded the utility of reporting tools for SQL Server back in 2004 by choosing to base them on ” . . . the Report Definition Language (RDL), which is an XML-based standard for defining reports. RDL is key to the Reporting Services success by allowing third parties to publish reports […]