Demo: Make better business decisions with reports and dashboards

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Business intelligence (BI) is the process of aggregating, storing, analyzing, and reporting on business data in order to support informed business decisions. Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 provides a number of tools that can help you extract data from a variety of sources and present that data in ways that facilitate analysis and decision making. In this demo, you'll see how employees at a fictitious company called Adventure Works use a Report Center site to create and manage reports, dashboards, and key performance indicators (KPIs).

How to do it (text version):

• Introduction to business intelligence in SharePoint Server 2007
• Share Excel 2007 workbooks as interactive reports
• Working with a Report Center site
• Share and manage connections to external data
• Create and publish Key Performance Indicators (KPIs)
• Share Excel 2007 worksheets and KPIs by using dashboards
• Work with filter Web Parts
• Introduction to Excel Services and Excel Web Access

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