Leveraging Business Intelligence Tools in SharePoint 2010

SharePoint 2007 made great steps to provide so-called business intelligence tools with the Excel Services Business Data Catalog and the PerformancePoint tool set, but a general concern was the learning curve required to leverage these tools to create interactive dashboards that enabled SharePoint users to quickly and efficiently gain access to the specific views of data they needed to do their jobs.

The Business Intelligence tools in SharePoint 2010 are complex enough and powerful enough that two full chapters are dedicated to the concept: Chapter 30, “Business Intelligence in SharePoint 2010 with PerformancePoint Services,” illustrates the capabilities of the PerformancePoint service ...

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