Share Information with Customers and Partners | MSBI Tutorial pdf

Share Information with Customers and Partners

Excel Services, part of Office SharePoint Server 2007, provides new server-based Excel functionality with which you can manage, consume, calculate, and share spreadsheets through a Web browser, giving you a more secure and centrally managed environment for your BI reports.
=> Improved management and control of business-critical information enables you to broadly share Excel spreadsheets while helping to protect proprietary information.
=> Browser-based access enables viewing and interacting with spreadsheet data from within BI dashboards while maintaining context with structured and unstructured information surrounding the scorecard, such as Microsoft Office Word and Microsoft Office PowerPoint documents.
=> Excel Web Services application programming interface (API) enables developers to incorporate the Excel models and business logic maintained by Excel users within spreadsheets without the need to recode the logic outside of Excel.
=> Improved performance and efficiency enable you to calculate better in serveraccessed spreadsheets.
=> The Data Connection Library simplifies finding and connecting to external data sources.