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CREATING DASHBOARDS WITH SHAREPOINT

CREATING DASHBOARDS WITH SHAREPOINT

Course Outline

  • Creating Dashboards in SharePoint
  • Defining dashboards
  • Delivering dashboards with SharePoint
  • Customizing SharePoint web pages
  • Architecting Wiki and Web Part pages
  • Publishing Excel in Dashboards

Leveraging Excel Access Web Parts

  • Displaying Excel in SharePoint pages
  • Connecting Excel Web Parts
  • Tailoring Excel Access Web Parts

Incorporating Excel Services

  • Evaluating Excel Services publishing options
  • Detecting parameters in Excel Services
  • Assembling Power Pivot in Excel
  • Deploying Business Reports

Exposing SQL Server Reporting Services

  • Assessing capabilities of SQL Server Reporting Services
  • Allocating a Reports Library
  • Adding SQL Server Reports to web pages

Utilizing third–party Web Parts

  • Enhancing dashboards with Web Parts
  • Integrating third–party Web Parts with List Data
  • Implementing SharePoint Apps

Consuming SharePoint Lists as a data source

  • Uncovering SharePoint Lists as dashboard items
  • Enabling functionality of Lists with Views
  • Enhancing SharePoint Lists with metadata

Charting SharePoint Lists

  • Investigating charting options
  • Connecting Lists to charting Web Parts
  • Exhibiting SharePoint Lists on web pages
  • Working with the Business Intelligence Center

Adopting Self–Service BI

  • Getting started using a BI Center
  • Identifying components of a BI Center site template
  • Benefiting from PerformancePoint functionalities
  • Configuring data connections

Planning for a successful dashboard

  • Gathering user information needs
  • Locating data sources
  • Sketching a mock–up

Authoring feature–rich content

  • Analyzing data structures for accuracy in reporting
  • Selecting Facts and Dimensions for business reporting
  • Consuming a Tabular Model and Analysis Services Cube
  • Engineering content for visualization

Exploiting PerformancePoint Dashboard Designer

  • Producing reports, charts, graphs and filters
  • Formulating KPIs and indicators
  • Developing reports and scorecards to measure performance
  • Slicing and dicing with Power Pivot
  • Providing decomposition tree functionality

Building the dashboard in SharePoint

  • Combining reporting objects on a web page
  • Applying filters to reports and graphs
  • Extending KPIs with trend indicators
  • Targeting access to various audiences
  • Enhancing Dashboards with SharePoint Web Parts

Drilling–down for root–cause analysis

  • Taking advantage of Out–of–the–Box Web Parts
  • Filtering Web Parts
  • Surfacing information with Query Web Parts
  • Displaying videos with Media Web Parts

Evaluating Web Part sources

  • Detecting third–party providers
  • Appraising the need for custom building
  • Launching a Dashboard Portal

Designing intuitive navigation

  • Uncovering the need for navigation
  • Selecting SharePoint options for web page transitions

Building portal pages

  • Implementing Promoted Links App
  • Exploiting Links App
  • Leveraging Wiki page editing
  • Modifying Current and Global Navigation