One of the more confusing aspects of SharePoint is its Business Intelligence (BI) capabilities
I was recently speaking with someone whose background was all in business intelligence and data. They had years of experience building data warehouses and datamarts
Even with some level of unified communications, we spend a frustratingly large amount of time tracking down materials related to conversations, accounts and projects that we are working on. We may have project management tools, integrated email, calendar and voice tools, but they are primarily...
Truthfully, major corporations install powerful business intelligence solutions to increase the communication wavelengths between employee and client – this set-up gives companies flexibility without exhausting resources on expensive modules and prepares employees to the demand imposed by high standards brought by policies dependent on technology and transmission
Leveraging this dark data could boost business intelligence and open up opportunities to gain a competitive edge
The Business Intelligence Capabilities of SharePoint 2013 Business Intelligence (BI) capabilities in SharePoint 2013 are vast and in many cases are achieved with a combination of SharePoint and Microsoft Office or SharePoint and SQL Server’s capabilities . Note: For a review of Office 365's Business Intelligence capabilities in Power BI, review my previous post on a deep-dive of Office 365's Power BI . I have worked with a variety of organizations in presenting SharePoint 2013 's BI capabilities and have found that it is best done by showing examples rather than speaking in abstract so I have included a larger number of screen shots in this section with brief summaries as I believe this is the best way to get a complete grasp of SharePoint 2013 and Business Intelligence (BI) . The following image details SharePoint’s different tiers of Business Intelligence which include SharePoint, Office and in many cases Excel, as well as SQL Server: Reviewing the Business Intelligence Center in SharePoint 2013 SharePoint 2013 provides a Business Intelligence Center site that enables your organization to centrally store and manage data connections, reports, scorecards, dashboards, Apps and Web Part pages as shown below: Microsoft Excel 2013 & SharePoint 2013 Excel has more capabilities and more relevance in BI and SharePoint than any other Microsoft Office program
When combined, businesses have a unique opportunity to turn these combined capabilities outward to find and deliver not just more information but actual *actionable intelligence* about competitors and markets. This session will demonstrate the power and promise of Social Competitive Intelligence that blends information management principles with deep Web analytics
Microsoft’s Power BI for Office 365 Microsoft Office 365’s Power BI contains a collection of features and services that enables organization to visualize data and share these discoveries in a very similar manner as SharePoint 2013's on-premise business intelligence environmental capabilities
This type of data capture and analysis software is used for a variety of purposes, such as transactions, business intelligence, applications, claim forms and customer support. Document recognition technologies such as OCR and ICR can automatically extract information that is essential to business intelligence and strategy
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