Читать книгу Applied Microsoft Business Intelligence - Sarka Dejan - Страница 7

The previous section focused on SharePoint as a whole. However, when SharePoint is deployed, you have an option to configure Performance Point services. Using Performance Point, developers can create dashboards that aggregate data from a collection of sources such as Analysis Services, Excel Workbooks, and SharePoint lists. Similar to Power View, Performance Point gives your users a very interactive interface for analyzing data. Where Performance Point really shines over Power View is that it automatically exposes the metadata from the underlying data model as part of the end-user experience. In other words, once a dashboard deploys, end users can simply right-click a given visualization and change the look by drilling down to a different level of the data. Figure 1.8 shows a sample Performance Point dashboard.

Figure 1.8 Performance Point dashboard

This particular dashboard is a high-level view of medical discharges for a given year and service area. By right-clicking a bar in the bar graph (shown in Figure 1.9) or changing a filter on the dashboard, end users can dynamically analyze the data based on the underlying data model.

Figure 1.9 Performance Point dashboard with drill-down menu displayed

Therefore, instead of IT developing several reports of varying levels of the same data, you can create a single dashboard that provides end users with different views from one entry point.