Image Gallery: Microsoft Sharepoint 2010 In Pictures
From integrated Business Intelligence, to Performance Point Services, Excel Services and Visio Services, to Business Connectivity Services and a raft of improvements to its user interface, Sharepoint 2010 is packed with plenty of new nuggets.
May 10, 2010
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Performance Point Server is now part of Sharepoint 2010. Using the Dashboard Designer, users can pull the data from any data source, and show KPIs, for example, in dashboard views.
Using the dashboard designer in Sharepoint 2010, users can pull data and present that information in a variety of formats. Previously, Performance Point Server, which provides Sharepoint 2010 with this capability, was a separate product.
Within a given set of data in Sharepoint 2010, users can take a broad look at information, and then begin drill down further using the decomposition tree feature.
In Sharepoint 2010's Dashboard Designer, users can put KPIs into a dashboard view.
Clicking on a slice of a pie chart in Sharepoint 2010 provides a deeper set of information behind that data. The ability to do this comes from Sharepoint's Decomposition Tree.
Within Sharepoint 2010's Decomposition Tree, users can drill deeper and deeper into data to start to provide some meaning. Here, drilling into United Kingdom provides a look at what makes up that region's numbers.
Drilling deeper into the Decomposition Tree for Sharepoint 2010, users can slice data down further and further. For example, to understand UK sales figures in this graphic, you can begin to understand what is selling; a further drill down could tell a user whether a particular promotional campaign may have driven sales.
Sharepoint 2010 includes Performance Point Server, Excel Services and Visio Services. Here, a view of Visio services shows a diagrammed business process (supply chain). This is a web access view of the data.
In Sharepoint 2010's Visio Services, the diagrams are tied into real data in real time. Thus, you see all of the data associated with the items in the diagram, but also those graphics reveal what is above, below or at threshold.
Using Sharepoint 2010's asset picker, users can go into the digital asset library and choose, say, a video that can be associated with a Sharepoint Site. You can even preview a video within the asset picker.
In Sharepoint 2010, the backstage information (about documents in Sharepoint) is much richer, and there's more functionality. For example, an admin can enforce where to save documents; and you can manage versions of a document.
Sharepoint 2010 includes new functionality that lets users broadcast PowerPoint documents in slide show mode. From within PowerPoint, users can create a URL and start broadcasting.
It's easy to create workflows in Sharepoint 2010 using Visio.
Users can easily create lists in Sharepoint 2010 with InfoPath, a forms designer tool that is now integrated into Sharepoint. In fact, InfoPath is included on the Sharepoint 2010 ribbon.
With InfoPath, now integrated into Sharepoint 2010, You can add drop down lists, date pickers and change the look and feel of a page to create a new form.
Creating Sharepoint 2010 sites is much easier than in Sharepoint 2007. Everything is quickly editable right on the page.
Sharepoint 2010 creates easy ways to tag sites, including the "type ahead" facility that can find pre-defined taxonomy items automatically.
In creating a Sharepoint 2010 site, in addition to easily editing any of the site's content, you can change the theme (the look and feel) of the site, choosing from a variety of templates, or creating your own theme in PowerPoint.
Using Sharepoint 2010, when changing the theme of the site, you can even preview the site before making the new theme live.
Editing a Sharepoint 2010 site is quick and easy. You can also add video and audio files onto the page from within the Sharepoint ribbon.
Sharepoint 2010 includes the ability to edit and create Office documents in a browser. One of the key features is document fidelity -- formatting and elements within a document look exactly the same in the Office application or in the browser.
A data connection wizard within Sharepoint 2010's Business Connectivity Service (BCS) walks users through the steps of connecting to back end data -- say from a CRM or ERP application, or any .net application or web service.
While the Business Connectivity Service (BCS) in Sharepoint 2010 has a wizard to walk users through the steps to connect to back end data, it is usually a business analyst or DBA, with some knowledge of the data, who creates the connections.
When creating connections for back-end data in Sharepoint 2010's Business Connectivity Service (BCS), users have the ability to retrieve and filter the data as they bring it in.
In the final part of connecting data sources into Sharepoint's Business Connectivity Service (BCS), users bind the data to a chart, ensuring that the data elements are appropriately mapped.
When all of the data has been connected from, say, a SQL Server table into Sharepoint 2010's Business Connectivity Service (BCS), the Chart Web Part is created, and stays connected to the data in real time.
In this SQL Server table of customers, a change is made to one of the items. As that change is made, it will be reflected in any Web Part that is connected to the database from Sharepoint 2010 using Business Connectivity Services (BCS). (See resulting chart in next slide.)
Chart Web Parts created in Business Connectivity Services (BCS) stay connected to the back end data source, and any changes made are reflected in real time in the chart.
With the appropriate permissions, any changes made to the data in Sharepoint 2010 are carried back to the actual data (in this case a SQL Server database) using Business Connectivity Services (BCS).
Using Sharepoint 2010 Business Connectivity Services (BCS), you can actually connect data -- in this case from a SQL Server database -- into Outlook as part of the connectivity process. In fact, the "connect to Outlook" button is a standard feature on the Sharepoint ribbon.
Here is an example of data connected from Sharepoint 2010's Business Connectivity Services (BCS) into Outlook. In this case, the data has been used to create contacts.
Here is an example of data connected from Sharepoint 2010's Business Connectivity Services (BCS) into Outlook. In this case, the data has been used to create contacts.
Performance Point Server is now part of Sharepoint 2010. Using the Dashboard Designer, users can pull the data from any data source, and show KPIs, for example, in dashboard views.
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