Category: BI

Techtarget.com defines Business Intelligence (BI) is a technology-driven process for analysing data and presenting actionable information to help executives, managers and other corporate end users make informed business decisions.

BI encompasses a wide variety of tools, applications and methodologies that enable organizations to collect data from internal systems and external sources; prepare it for analysis; develop and run queries against that data; and create reports, dashboards and data visualizations

Therefore, the Business Intelligence category is full of handy tips, tricks and advise. Check out some of the Step by Step blogs or learn with our eBooks, How To videos and Webinars.

How to set up a Power BI Data Source with Data Refresh
How to set up a Power BI Data Source with Data Refresh
How Tos

Please log-in to view this video. Sign up for FREE ACCESS HERE Learn how to set up a Power BI Data Source with Data Refresh from John White. In this video by John you will learn how to: (1) Build a Power BI Report from file based data. (2) Installing and registering the Personal Data Gateway for… READ MORE

Analysing SharePoint Document libraries with Power BI
Analysing SharePoint Document libraries with Power BI
How Tos

Please log-in to view this video. Sign up for FREE ACCESS HERE Watch Laszlo Ruboczki How to Video about Analysing SharePoint Document Libraries with Power BI In this video you will learn how to: (1) How to find information about files in SharePoint document libraries. (2) Analysis and presentation of collected data with Power BI. (3) Publish… READ MORE

Whitepaper: Visibility and Business Intelligence
Whitepaper: Visibility and Business Intelligence
Blog Posts

There is hindsight, foresight, limited vision, tunnel vision, losing sight of a goal, and when we can’t see at all we might get blindsided. In the corporate world, business objectives are defined by vision statements and an innovative leader is often referred to as a visionary. The preponderance of these types of words in our lexicon highlights the significance we place on sight.

SharePoint 2013 Development Machine
SharePoint 2013 Development Machine
Ebooks

Learn how to develop a single machine SharePoint 2013 Environment Development Machine time has landed. Every SharePoint developer will need to build a Virtual Machine on which they can do their development. The only exception to this rule is if you are targeting Office 365 only, but still, having your own Virtual Machine running SharePoint… READ MORE

European SharePoint Community Awards 2013
European SharePoint Community Awards 2013
Blog Posts

Following the hugely successful campaign in 2012, the prestigious European SharePoint Community Awards are back! Your enthusiasm was so inspiring that we have increased the number of awards this year and are delighted to announce the line-up of categories below. This is your community and we are offering you a chance to showcase your group’s best competitive SharePoint project, solution, strategy or innovation. Take the opportunity to showcase your group’s strengths and receive the highest accolade from the SharePoint Community within one or all of the following categories;

Installing SSRS 2012 Without Upgrading Your Database Server
Installing SSRS 2012 Without Upgrading Your Database Server
Blog Posts

SQL 2012 RTMed last month (March 2012) with much fanfare. For us SharePoint types, SQL is a big deal, as SQL is the backbone of SharePoint. SQL 2012 has a few new or updated features that are of interest to SharePoint aficionados, but this blog post is specifically about SQL Server Reporting Services (SSRS). SSRS got a major overhaul in SQL 2012. It is finally a SharePoint service application. Anyone that has installed SSRS previous to SQL 2012 can appreciate how big of a deal that is. SSRS 2012 is better than SSRS 2008 R2 in a whole lot more ways, but as an IT Pro, the installation and management improvements take the cake.

HealthCare BI Solution with SharePoint 2010
Webinars

Discover a HealthCare BI Solution with SharePoint 2010 Webinar Summary: A lot of data is available in hospitals but most of the hospitals only store it . CTG goes further with this data: we use it and deliver valuable information to management, doctors, …Doctors don’t have time to open their laptop, but no worries, CTG… READ MORE

The One Thing: Steve Fox and SharePoint 2010
The One Thing: Steve Fox and SharePoint 2010
Blog Posts

Steve Fox, Director of Developer and Platform Evangelism at Microsoft, shares his thoughts on the one thing that people need to know about SharePoint 2010. This is part of ‘The One Thing’ video series produced by Christian Buckley (@buckleyplanet) and the Axceler team.

SharePoint Lifecycle Management with Project Server 2010
SharePoint Lifecycle Management with Project Server 2010
Presentations

W22- Is SharePoint becoming an important part of your company’soverall IT offering? If so, it’s likely that you have a need to better manage SharePoint business requests – things like new sites, workflows, custom applications, web parts, and Business Intelligence dashboards. Join us as we discuss the importance of SharePoint lifecycle management from an IT… READ MORE