Business Connectivity Services (BCS) for Microsoft® SharePoint® Server 2010 should be a feature of substantial interest for enterprises composed of several Line of Business (LoB) units. It’s worth spending time thinking about how to implement BCS if an enterprise objective is to regularly collect and analyze LoB performance data. BCS has all of the features […]
Adding Dashboards to a Dashboard Library in SharePoint Online
Before we get down to the specifics of building a dashboard library inside our SharePoint Online, Enterprise E3 Business Intelligence Center (BIC) site collection, we need to note an important point. PerformancePoint Services Dashboard Designer is NOT available to SharePoint Online users. So plan on building any of the dashboards you require locally, with, for […]
Adding a Business Intelligence Site Collection to SharePoint Online, Office 365 2013
We planned to add a status list to the top level site collection of our Office 365, SharePoint Online account. But we quickly learned about the removal of this out of the box type of list from an article, Discontinued features and modified functionality in Microsoft SharePoint 2013, which was published on the Microsoft® Office […]
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 […]
Building Dashboards for Business Intelligence with Excel Services for SharePoint 2007 and 2010 Enterprise Edition
Rehmani Consulting offers a detailed video training course that depicts the procedures required to create dashboards from data stored in Excel spreadsheets. This course presents a set of procedures that can be implemented by line of business (LOB) groups within an organization to promote collaboration on business intelligence projects. As such, the techniques demonstrated should […]
Utilizing SharePoint 2010 Lists and Libraries to Automatically store eMail Files and Messages Promises Substantial Benefits
Rehmani Consulting, Inc. offers an important video training course on Email enabling [SharePoint] Lists and Libraries Access to this video is restricted to our web site subscribers and customers who have purchased our SharePoint 2007 Site Admin and End User Training DVD. We need to note that the techniques presented in this video cannot be […]
Financial Institutions may Realize Considerable Savings by Using SharePoint 2010 to Support Regulatory Compliance Efforts
We read with some interest an article written by Susan Feinberg, Big Demands for Small Banks. This article was published on August 6, 2012 on the Computerworld web site. What caught our attention in this article was Ms. Feinberg’s observation ” . . . that small banks may have to start investing in compliance technology […]
Compile Accurate Business Intelligence Metrics with SQL Reporting Services 2008 R2 and SharePoint Server 2010
As John Lauer and a team of supporting authors at Microsoft® made clear in a white paper, “How to Choose the Right Business Intelligence [BI] Technology to Suit Your Style”, “[b]usinesses, in an effort to stay one step ahead, collect large amounts of data ranging from demographics, buyer behavior, and customer loyalty to financial and […]