Business Intelligence

Business Intelligence takes data stored in various systems and turns it into information, so users can make informed decisions. A key part of Microsoft's Business Intelligence platform, SharePoint extends Business Intelligence capabilities to everyone within the company, so they are all able to access the right data to make the right decisions.

Your company probably stores data in a variety of formats, such as databases, e-mail messages, and spreadsheet files. SharePoint helps you extract data from a variety of sources and present that data in ways that facilitate analysis and decision making.

Excel Services empowers decision makers to publish, share, and manage Excel workbooks on a SharePoint site. Other people in the company can then modify cell values, formulas, and formatting from the browser as they analyse the data.

PerformancePoint Services can increase visibility into key company objectives and metrics, and enable richer depth of analysis and insight. You or others in your company can create and use interactive dashboards with scorecards, reports, and filters to find trends. You can also add rich charts to your SharePoint sites and connect the charts to data from a variety of sources, such as SharePoint lists, external data lists, Business Data Connectivity Services, Excel Services, or other Web Parts.