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
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)
Business Intelligence Considerations in 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. 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 BI. The following image details SharePoint’s different tiers of BI which include SharePoint, Office and in many cases Excel, as well as SQL Server: Business Intelligence Center SharePoint 2013 provides a Business Intelligence Center site that enables your organization to centrally store and manage data connections, reports, scorecards, dashboards, and Web Part pages as shown below: Microsoft Excel 2013 Excel has more capabilities and more relevance in BI and SharePoint than any other Microsoft Office program
Our end users cannot handle all of the functionality We have other tools in place that do X (e.g. search or content management or BI, etc.) We have an older version of Office We have some users on Macs or Linux What is the “sweet spot” for SharePoint?
A SharePoint 2013 \ Office 365 hybrid deployment provides an organization to implement robust business intelligence (BI) initiatives as the “private’ side of the hybrid cloud will more than likely already exist on the company’s network in their Active Directory forest which will allow BI initiatives to securely access other line-of-business systems within the organization
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• Are you looking at possible future business intelligence (BI) or reporting initiatives or looking to pull in external data sources from “other” line-of-business systems such as SAP, etc. If so, there are some areas of consideration and planning that should be discussed and placed in your SharePoint roadmap so that SharePoint 2013 can “intake” those future requirements and you are able to build and deliver new services such as BI or ECM to your organization’s users without having to perform any major re-architecture (i.e. information and system architecture scalability and roadmap planning) These are just a few initial questions to help get you thinking more granularly about what you currently have implemented and how you may want to tailor your overall project implementation strategy, including your organization's governance strategy , to meet not only your user’s current needs but also future “big ticket” type initiatives in the future
Other organizations may be interested in implementing a professional (social) networking or business intelligence (BI) platform as well as rolling out workflows to streamline business processes while ensuring extranet and mobile compatibility
(Think of it in terms of future business intelligence [BI] initiatives.)
Microsoft did throw a serious curveball at me during this process in releasing several product updates around Windows Server 2012 R2, System Center 2012 R2, Windows Intune, Office 365’s BI capabilities, new Office 365 Enterprise features, greater SkyDrive Pro capabilities, and SQL Server 2012 R2’s in-memory and online transaction processing technology coming out in SQL Server 2014
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