Business Intelligence / Dashboards
SharePoint has the capability to display data from a variety of sources and present it in a useable and informative format for decision makers and managers. There are both basic dash boarding, key performance indicator lists (link to feature), and more advanced features such as PerformancePoint (link to offer). With the out of the box capabilities end users can select the data sources they wish to pull into a dashboard through the browser, Access, Excel or SharePoint Designer. MOSSHosting.com specializes in providing expert assistance configuring the out of the box dashboard capabilities of SharePoint, or building real time performance monitoring and assessment through PerformancePoint and scorecards.
These types of MOSS capabilities can start with end user generated KPI lists and move into complex developer produced score card applications. The basic choices around MOSS BI and MOSS Dashboards fall into three categories.
| Dashboards | Key Performance Indicators (KPI) | PerformancePoint |
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| Can be created ad-hoc, small footprint, lightweight | Can be created ad-hoc, small footprint, lightweight | Developer created, works best with relational data. |
| Easy to create and configure, powerful enough to customize with code. | Easy to create and configure, powerful enough to customize with code. | Goals define structure of scorecards, need well defined objectives such as financial performance for this solution. |
| Great Starting Place | Powerful Feature | Advanced |
| Allows individual business units or departments to quickly start visualizing their data. | Can pull data from SharePoint lists, Excel, SQL Service Analysis Services, or manually. | Extreme power and customization ability – best for companies with financial data. |