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 Power BI, A New BI Solution for SharePoint Online, Office 365
Up until now, the opportunities to collect and manage data with SharePoint Online, Office 365, for business intelligence (BI) objectives has been very limited. As Jason Himmelstein notes, one of the questions he grappled with as he conceptualized our course in SharePoint 2013: Business Intelligence was ” . . . how much of this is […]
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 Brief Introduction to Power View for SharePoint Server 2013
In a video tutorial titled Power View Advantages, Jason Himmelstein, a subject matter expert, and published author on technical topics related to Business Intelligence (BI) gathering with data collected via computing systems, presents some of the new features of Power View for SharePoint Server 2013. As of October 9, 2013, this video tutorial is a […]
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, […]
New Features for Business Intelligence in SQL Server 2012 SP1
SharePoint 2013 stakeholders looking for a Business Intelligence (BI) solution should consider some new improvements Microsoft® has made to SQL Server 2012 SP1. Jason Himmelstein sums it up nicely about half way through a video tutorial titled PerformancePoint and SQL Server 2012 SP1. SQL Server 2012 SP1 is the engine behind any of the BI […]
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, […]
BI Center Site Collection SharePoint Online Library and List Types
The following screen is produced with SharePoint Online, Enterprise Edition, once a Business Intelligence Center (BIC) site collection has been successfully added: The three prompts in the center of the screen are simple and right to the point: Explore and Analyze Data Create powerful data mash-ups of millions of rows of data from various sources […]
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 […]