Designing a Microsoft SharePoint 2010 Infrastructure Vol 2 part 10. This course is intended for IT Professionals who use Microsoft SharePoint 2010 in a team-based, medium-sized to large environment. While they may have implemented a SharePoint deployment, they have limited experience in designing a SharePoint infrastructure. They likely work as a senior administrator who acts as a technical lead over a team of administrators. Members of this audience should have at least 6 months experience with SharePoint 2010. | Planning a SharePoint 2010 Implementation of a Business Intelligence Strategy 11-5 Explain the data management and access issues that are relevant to BI design. Plan how to implement BI in SharePoint 2010. MCT USE ONLY. STUDENT USE PROHIBITED 11-6 Designing a Microsoft SharePoint 2010 Infrastructure Goals of Business Intelligence Key Points There are a range of definitions of BI so it is probably more useful to assess the goals of BI instead. In this way you can more fully understand what you should achieve through your solution design. There are three key goals Self-service and personal business intelligence. Business intelligence for the community. Organizational business intelligence. Self-Service and Personal BI The goal of self-service and personal BI is to ensure that users can provide their own BI services. Usually it involves personal productivity facilities such as Microsoft Office in addition to access to back-end data sources such as SQL Server or other database software. Users usually information workers can format and MCT USE ONLY. STUDENT USE PROHIBITED Planning a SharePoint 2010 Implementation of a Business Intelligence Strategy 11-7 analyze data to generate business logic models that help them make decisions. This involves little or no ongoing effort from the IT department. Business Intelligence for the Community The goal of BI for the community is the ability to analyze data in a collaborative environment. The aim is to create teams who can combine effort and therefore produce more complex or better informed business models. This requires a more sophisticated approach to business systems but has the major benefit of eradicating silos of business information that are outside the control of the business. Eradicating such silos is the most common goal of BI implementations. Therefore a solution architect must identify opportunities for teams to share common information to make corporate decisions. A good example of how this extends personal BI is .
