Planning for business intelligence adoption - Business Intelligence in Microsoft SharePoint 2013 - page 49

BI developers can use Report Designer to perform the same tasks as power users. However,
although Report Designer facilitates the BI developer in publishing report parts, it does not provide
access to published report parts to use when designing a new report. Report Designer also makes it
possible for the Report Developer to work with multiple reports in the same session, whereas with
Report Builder, users can work with only one report at a time.

Report consumers can access standard RDL reports in SharePoint to do the following:

View and interact with a report online

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Export a report to a variety of formats, including data feeds

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■ Subscribe to a report for scheduled delivery by email or to a network file share

■ Configure data alerts to receive email notifications of changes in data values

Power users can create reports by using Power View in SharePoint to share with casual users and
to do the following:

Explore data in PowerPivot for SharePoint or Analysis Services tabular models and cubes

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Visualize data as a table, matrix, chart, map, tile, or card

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Create an animated scatter chart

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Filter and highlight data

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Export a report to PowerPoint

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SharePoint BI
SharePoint BI accommodates a variety of sources with which power users or BI developers can con-
solidate information in a single location even when a formal BI implementation is not yet in place
and can change out content when the company eventually develops a data warehouse or Analysis
Services cube.

Use this tool to build a simple dashboard to display, and optionally filter, information from multiple
sources on a single page (such as workbooks, reports, Visio web diagrams, PerformancePoint Services
content, and other content types). Chapter 8, “Using PerformancePoint Services,” provides more infor-
mation about working with SharePoint's BI features.

PerformancePoint Services
PerformancePoint Services is yet another SharePoint service application that supports the develop-
ment of content types used in performance management solutions that users access in SharePoint. BI
developers typically produce the complete solutions by using the Dashboard Designer tool, although
power users might also use this tool to contribute content.