In its most recent quarterly earnings report, for Q2 2014, Microsoft® reported a 25% year over year increase in sales of SQL Server. I take this jump in sales as an indicator of the substantial interest enterprise business, and comparably sized organizations in the public and not-for-profit sectors have in gathering highly useful Business Intelligence […]
Central Administration Settings for Creating and Configuring Reporting Services as a SharePoint Server 2013 Service
The task of adding the SQL Server 2012 SP1 Reporting Services for SharePoint service is best performed by SharePoint administrators. Jason Himmelstein’s presentation in the first part of his series on Reporting Services, REPORTING SERVICES IN SHAREPOINT 2013 PART 1 is tailored for an audience of administrators. As we noted in the previous post to […]
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 […]
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 […]
Neudesic Delivers Two Stages of Cost Savings to Enterprise Businesses Looking for Quick Access to BI Data
Rehmani Consulting, Inc. offers a comprehensive set of video training content on SharePoint 2010: Reporting Services. Reporting services for SharePoint, along with Power Pivot and/or Power View for Excel, are just 3 of the tools used, extensively, by Neudesic Consulting Services as they build business intelligence (BI) systems that provide customers with very quick access […]
Using Business Connectivity Services with SharePoint Server 2010 to Produce Web Page Content can Produce Substantial Cost Savings
In 2012 enterprise businesses and other large groups of users in the public, the non profit and the the not-for-profit sectors are emphasizing the importance of collecting meaningful metrics on business activity, performing related analysis, and publishing information on web pages in the form of charts, scorecards, and dashboards. Acquiring and maintaining web browsers constitutes […]
SQL Server Reporting Services are a Natural for SharePoint 2010
In 2004 Microsoft Corporation debuted SQL Server Reporting Services. James Niccolai of InfoWorld noted in Microsoft Launches SQL Server Reporting Services that demand for this product had reached such a frenzy that an analyst, Phillip Russom of Forrester Research, had note that “some of [these users] were so keen that they went into production with […]