Chapter 8. Deploying Reports to SharePoint
Before you dive into deploying reports to SharePoint, consider why you want to deploy them to SharePoint in the first place. The top two reasons why organizations choose to deploy reports to SharePoint are integrated storage and integrated security.
Centrally storing reports with the other content that a business uses is one of the best features of SharePoint integrated mode. When a report is deployed to SharePoint, it becomes a part of SharePoint, just like any other content stored on a SharePoint site. With integrated storage, organizations get:
Ease of Use: No training is required. Users already know how to access SharePoint, as that is how they get their documents.
Inherited Governance: As reports are deployed to SharePoint, you instantly get to share the infrastructure that is in place for SharePoint. If you already have a SharePoint governance in place that takes care of disaster recovery (SLAs, support, backups, and so on), you're golden, as you automatically get to push these policies and procedures to your reports.
Inherited Security: Also with deploying reports to SharePoint, organizations immediately can start utilizing the strong SharePoint security features such as SharePoint security groups, Active Directory security groups, the document library, and folder and item-level security.
This chapter addresses different ways that users and developers can deploy reports to SharePoint. The chapter first goes through the steps to create ...
