SharePoint 2010 Insights: Make Informed Business Decisions
As part of the 2010 release, SharePoint Insights enables users to find the information they need across unstructured assets (blogs, wikis, presentations, documents) and structured assets (reports, spreadsheets, analytical systems). Empower users to discover the right people and expertise to make better informed and more agile business decisions.
Empower Decision Makers
Empower users to collaborate better and make more agile business decisions by accessing the information they need, when they need it. With powerful self-service capabilities integrated into familiar tools, users can create and share the right information and drive the business forward by providing timely responses and taking advantage of opportunities as they arise.
Improve Organizational Effectiveness
Manage, drive, and define organizational success by aligning to key metrics and strategy through context-driven dashboards. Measure critical success factors and empower everyone to create and analyze the information necessary to stay informed and move the business forward. Enable accountability and transparency across the company and remove barriers to productivity.
Enable IT Efficiency
Use a complete, integrated business collaboration platform that can empower users to discover, analyze, and share the right information across unstructured and structured assets. With a platform built on standards, IT can address business requirements by putting information in the hands of users and focusing on developing, maintaining, and securing systems.
Featured Functionality
- PerformancePoint Services - Create rich, interactive, context-driven dashboards and scorecards that enable users to access the information they need no matter the source, combining multiple systems and content into a single browser-based experience. Dashboards display relevant information and enable users to ask and analyze information pertinent to their business.
- Rich Analytics and Visualizations - Powerful new analytics enable users to perform root-cause analysis that drives to the core of the data. The new Decomposition Tree displays only the most pertinent information and graphically shows the analysis, which can help users to visually determine the issues at hand. New visualizations allow users to easily convey the right information graphically.
- Self-Service Access to Information - Users can create dashboards for their teams and projects and reuse components froma variety of sources, including PerformancePoint Services, Excel Services, Visio Services, chart web parts, and status indicators.
- Visio Services - Publish and share rich Visio diagrams using a simple browser displayed within SharePoint. Visio diagrams are rendered with the same fidelity as the client and provide interactivity on shapes and objects. Connect these data to provide real-time insight.
- Increased Fidelity with Excel - Excel Services supports additional workbook types as well as new features of Excel 2010, such as sparklines and visual slicers. With the one-click publish from Excel to Excel Services, users can create and share workbooks easily and ensure that workbooks display properly in their favorite browsers.
- Excel Services New Programmability Features - Excel Services introduces a new JavaScript object model that lets you create rich, interactive applications with your workbooks on the server. From implementing right-mouse button controls to displaying data unique to cells, the JavaScript object model enables developers and IT to create vivid business experiences. A new REST API allows you to embed your workbooks across applications and even with your desktop, such as in blogs or wikis. Lastly, an improved Web Services API enables several new automation and application development capabilities.
- Simplified Navigation - Users can drill down on scorecards to understand issues in more detail; they also can drill through any dimension to understand causality and perform deeper analytics. Improved filtering and control can help users to continually explore the data without having to leave their browsers.
- Chart Web Parts - A wide range of chart types is now available for users to create advanced visualizations with data in SharePoint, including that from SharePoint lists, Business Connectivity Services, or Excel documents. Simple wizards guide users through the creation of charts, empowering them to generate their own dashboards quickly and easily.
- Access Any Data - PerformancePoint Services allows you to aggregate data from multiple sources and SharePoint lists, including Business Connectivity Services, PowerPivot and Excel workbooks, and SQL Service Analysis Services. This can help you to create rich dashboards and combine data from different systems to convey the right information without exposing users to underlying systems.
- Simplified Administration and Management - Across Excel Services and PerformancePoint Services, administrators have a simplified console and the ability to use PowerShell to automate and script common tasks. Deployment, security, backup, and maintenance are handled through the Central Administration console, simplifying the rollout and ongoing maintenance of the system.