Planning for business intelligence adoption - Business Intelligence in Microsoft SharePoint 2013 - page 45

Tool BI community Content author Reusability

PowerPivot for SharePoint Team BI Business user Excel

Report Builder
SharePoint BI
PerformancePoint
Services
Custom applications
Any tool that connects to
Analysis Services

Report Builder (Reporting
Services)

Self-service and personal BI
Team BI

Business user PowerPivot in Excel

SharePoint BI
PerformancePoint
Services
Custom applications

Report Designer
(Reporting Services)

Team BI
Organizational BI

BI developer PowerPivot in Excel

SharePoint BI
PerformancePoint
Services
Custom applications

Power View in SharePoint Self-service and personal BI

Team BI

Power user
Business user

PowerPoint

SharePoint BI Team BI BI developer

Power user

Content not reusable in
other tools

PerformancePoint Services Team BI

Organizational BI

BI developer
Power user

SharePoint BI
Custom applications

Visio Self-service and personal BI BI developer

Business user

Visio Services

Visio Services Team BI BI developer

Power user

SharePoint BI
Custom applications

Note In the Content author column in the preceding table, the BI developer is omitted in
some rows but can often be the primary content author with the respective tool. We've
elected to identify the BI developer in this table only when the BI developer is most likely to
have the primary role for creating the content.

excel
Excel is a very popular tool, and many, if not most, analysts are already using it. Excel is familiar even
to casual users and, for this reason, it is used for everything from simple To Do lists to complex finan-
cial analysis.