Chapter 6. Business Intelligence

Microsoft SharePoint Server 2013 provides a comprehensive set of Business Intelligence (BI) tools that integrate across Microsoft Office applications and other Microsoft technologies. Microsoft’s BI toolset is extensive. Its aim is to give everyone within an organization access to BI solutions so that they can make better, faster, and more relevant business decisions. The BI toolset can be divided according to the users who build the solution and the intended audience for the solution:

  • Personal BI. Users in this group build BI solutions for their own consumption. This is known as self-service BI. The tool most often used to build solutions in this category is Microsoft Excel. Each Excel workbook contains a number ...

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