Tracks & Sessions

	Administering Microsoft SharePoint Products and Technologies 2007 Using STSADM.EXE

Presented By: Todd O. Klindt(MVP)

Sometimes a SharePoint administrator needs the raw power of a command line tool to get the job done. That's where STSADM.EXE comes to the rescue. STSADM is a command line administration tool included with Windows SharePoint Services and Microsoft Office SharePoint Server. This session describes many tasks that can be performed using STSADM. See examples of scripts that can be created that leverage STSADM to allow the efficient administrator to automate common tasks. We also cover some operations that can only be done with STSADM.

	Backing Up SharePoint Products and Technologies

Presented By: Heidi Payne; Ryan Pillatzki

In this session, we discuss the options available for Microsoft Office SharePoint Server and Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 in regard to the backing up of data and sites, why backups are a vital part of site administration, and common pitfalls experienced when planning a backup scenario for a SharePoint environment. This includes concerns about versioning, performance worries for high-impact environments, and what to do with backups once they’ve been taken.

	Dealing with Change: How to Manage Deployment for Multi-Project MOSS Solutions

Presented By: Ben Robb(MVP)

If you are planning on using SharePoint to run a large intranet or public-facing website that has ongoing maintenance and multiple projects with different release cycles, you will be faced with challenges around how to successfully manage this in a Microsoft Office SharePoint Server environment. Learn how to leverage industry-standard processes for continuous integration and automated builds to streamline your deployment process between different environments, using MSBuild, Team Foundation Server and the SharePoint Solution, Feature and Content Deployment frameworks.

	Disaster Recovery for SharePoint Products and Technologies: WSS v3.0 and MOSS 2007

Presented By: Radu Vaduva

This session discusses the Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 components and the options available for disaster recovery. The session walks through all of the utilities, supportability recommendations, and other Microsoft products available for backup/restore and building highly available environments for MOSS 2007.

	Enforce Governance by Provisioning Sites with Workflows

Presented By: Ed Hild

Learn how your organization can implement workflows to provision sites. This session covers the importance of sites vs. site collections and their relationship to content databases. Site taxonomies are very important and most organizations want control of site provisioning, yet don't want to hamper the time-to-live of a site request. Learn how to implement a custom Microsoft Visual Studio .NET workflow for provisioning site collections, as well as a provisioning activity in Microsoft Office SharePoint Designer that can be given to a site collection administrator. Also see how you can leverage the out-of-the-box workflows in a provisioning strategy.

	Enhancing SharePoint Automation Using Windows PowerShell

Presented By: Darrin Bishop(MVP)

Windows PowerShell provides administrators with a new command line scripting experience. The current version of SharePoint did not ship with any custom SharePoint specific integration. Even though Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 and Windows SharePoint Services v3 did not ship with a rich PowerShell experience, we can still leverage PowerShell to manage and automate MOSS and WSS. This session covers Microsoft's new object-oriented scripting environment and demonstrates how you can create reusable PowerShell functions and scripts to create powerful automated SharePoint tasks.

	From Chaos to Corporate Governance, 10 Steps for Success with Microsoft SharePoint Products and Technologies

Presented By: Joel Oleson; Brian Cook

Learn from mistakes, and avoid the pitfalls. Find out what comes out of the box and what you'll need to create a successful deployment. In addition to architecture, we explore the roles, responsibilities, and what you need for a successful deployment, and consolidated managed deployment.

	How Microsoft Product Support Troubleshoots SharePoint Products and Technologies

Presented By: Russ White

In this session, we discuss how SharePoint logs errors and events, and review tools and techniques you can use to investigate a variety of issues. We expose you to some of the practical methods, tools, and resources used by Microsoft Product Services and Support teams to troubleshoot SharePoint issues. We also cover what information is important to gather should you need to call Microsoft Technical Support.

	How to Protect SharePoint with Microsoft Data Protection Manager 2007

Presented By: Jon Reese

	Managing SharePoint in the Enterprise

Presented By: Luis Camara Manoel

This session features two new Solution Accelerators providing new Microsoft Operations Manager packs and an inventory tool for scanning SharePoint deplolyment and use, including a demonstration of the actual tools.

	Microsoft Product Support Best Practices for Deploying Hotfixes, Public Updates, and Service Packs for WSS and MOSS

Presented By: Dan Winter

Inevitably you will have to deploy a patch within your SharePoint environment. This may come in the form of a hotfix, a public update, or a Service Pack. This session explores some of the internal mechanics of SharePoint patching technology while providing Product Support’s recommendations as to how most effectively deploy them. We also explore some of the finer points of how to recover when patching fails.

	Microsoft SharePoint Products and Technologies Governance and Adoption in the real world.

Presented By: Richard Gleeson

As the East Region IW Business Strategy Lead based in NY, our team has created a fantastic MOSS 2007 Governance and Adoption strategy offering that has been implemented at several large financial institutions.

	MOSS 2007: Advanced Administrative Architecture, Deployment, and Operations

Presented By: Shane Young(MVP)

Just because your brain is full from Admin part 1 doesn’t mean you are ready to build your farm. You still need to come to this session and learn about design considerations based on your solution. Intranet, extranet, or internet? Come learn the unique considerations for each scenario. And because that would be boring by itself we will sprinkle in all kinds of practical real world topics to jazz things up. Cache, solution deployment, disaster recovery, code access security, and the secret to good brownies. Oh yeah, there will also be a mystery co-presenter for this session. Very cool!

	MOSS 2007: Fundamentals of Administrative Architecture, Deployment, and Operations

Presented By: Shane Young(MVP)

Sometimes back to basics is a good thing. This part 1 of 2 sessions gives you everything needed to get a SharePoint farm built. We explore the different server roles and how you assign them to servers; with a discussion of how each roles scales. Then we review suggested topologies to meet your deployment goals. And once you've figured out all of the pieces, we talk about the install process. Lots of road blocks and account decisions to be made. Did someone say Kerberos? EEK!

	Performance and Optimization Strategies for MOSS 2007

Presented By: James Petrosky

In this session, learn about performance features and functionality included in Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007. The session covers many of the caching and compression options of the product, and how they can be leveraged to increase site performance. If you’re interested in learning how SharePoint scales, specifically in Internet-facing, anonymous user scenarios, this session is for you. (Note: Many of the points are also applicable to intranet/extranet scenarios as well.)

	Preparing for the Future Challenges of SharePoint

Presented By: Andrew Chapman- EMC Microsoft Practice

In this session, learn about seven key reference architectures that can be used to integrate SharePoint into your traditional content management systems. Using combinations of these architectures, learn how you can apply operational controls, create aggregated views of SharePoint content, standardize on the application of compliance policies, and create a scalable and extensible environment.

	Restoring SharePoint Products and Technologies

Presented By: Heidi Payne; Ryan Pillatzki

In this session, we discuss the options available for Microsoft Office SharePoint Server and Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 in regard to restoring data and sites, what is supposed and recommended for restore environments, and the variety of ways in which working with backups can ease the administration of a SharePoint site. We cover new restore options introduced in V3, best practices, and a walkthrough of some of the more common restore options.

	Security Under the Hood in Microsoft SharePoint Products and Technologies 2007

Presented By: Ted Pattison(MVP)

SharePoint 2007 technologies provide a robust authorization layer for securing SharePoint sites which sits on top of the authentication schemes provided by the underlying platforms (Microsoft Internet Information Services and ASP.NET). This session discusses how to configure a Zone within a Windows SharePoint Services (WSS) Web Application by modifying its web.config file to support either Windows Authentication or Forms-Based Authentication (FBA). The session explains how WSS takes the identity established by the underlying authentication provider and wraps in a profile that is cached at the level of site collection. From a programming perspective, the session explains the difference between the Windows security content and the SharePoint security context of an incoming request. Learn how to write code to elevate privilege and to impersonate a user. The second half of the session explains how authorization within a site collection is managed in terms of groups, permission levels, and securable objects, as well as how to write code to automate the configuration of authorization settings.

	SharePoint Administrators, the Reluctant DBAs (All You Need to Know about SQL but Were Afraid to Ask)

Presented By: Todd O. Klindt(MVP)

Are you a SharePoint administrator who has been reluctantly thrust into the role of SQL administrator as well? In this session we go over some basic SQL features and configuration. We cover why you should consider 64 bit SQL. Finally we go over some maintenance steps you should take to keep both SQL and SharePoint happy. By the end of this session you'll have a good understanding of SQL and how to make it cooperate with SharePoint.

	SharePoint Online (MSIT): SharePoint Operations Monitoring, Troubleshooting, and Performance Tuning

Presented By: Sam Crewdson; Nick Hardin

During this session, we discuss how SharePoint Online runs the internal SharePoint infrastructure at Microsoft. This discussion includes monitoring strategy, troubleshooting, lessons learned, and tools we’ve built.

	Stress Testing Using Visual Studio Team System Test Edition (VSTT)

Presented By: Ben Curry(MVP)

Have you wanted to test your shiny, new SharePoint farm for capacity, but don’t know how? Do you need to know how many servers you will need to support your users? In this session learn how to easily test your SharePoint Farm for desired and maximum capacity using Visual Studio. In addition you can test the result of removing a server from your load-balanced Web tier, including performance counters. See third party data population tools used for test data and learn the best practice for adding and removing this content.

	Using ADAM and ADFS with SharePoint

Presented By: Aimme Lirette

This session discusses what Active Directory Federation Services (ADFS) is and how it can be used with SharePoint to allow users from one company to seamlessly access resources in another company without compromising security. After looking at ADFS and the features it offers, the session explores how using ADAM as an authentication provider compares to using Active Directory. Exploring both options will help you decide which is best for you.

	Virus Scanning and Content Filtering for MOSS 2007 and WSS 3.0 Using Microsoft Forefront Security for SharePoint

Presented By: Mattew McDermott; Noelle Mendez-Villamil; Jonathan Wynn

Microsoft Forefront Security for SharePoint integrates multiple scan engines from industry-leading vendors and content controls to help businesses protect their Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 and Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 collaboration environments by eliminating documents containing malicious code, confidential information, and inappropriate content. This session covers how Forefront Security for SharePoint leverages the SharePoint 2007 API to scan infected documents, keywords for inappropriate language, and non-compliant file types. Attendees receive an in-depth drilldown on the setting and configurations of the realtime and manual scan jobs. Catapult Systems provides a partner perspective on the deployment and use of this product, while Del Monte Foods provides real life scenarios on how they deployed and manage this solution for their intranet and extranet deployments of SharePoint.

	Your Data is in SharePoint, Now What?

Presented By: Adam Buenz(MVP)

From targeting internal corporate compliance to maintaining conformity with stringent industry and federal regulations, this session walks you through the secure way to manage your business data stored in SharePoint. Explore aspects such as building security and information policies, records management, information rights management, and generally securing your SharePoint instance with various tricks and hacks; and walk away well-equipped to build, enhance, and maintain a secure collaboration environment.

	A Developer's Introduction to SharePoint Products and Technologies

Presented By: Robert Bogue(MVP)

As a developer you are hearing more and more about SharePoint. However, what does it mean to you? How can it save you from hours of Office integration? How can it make requirements like document management easier to swallow? How can you use it as a way to allow users flexibility with some parts of the application while maintaining control in other parts? In this demo heavy presentation, learn about Web Parts and how to build them. Learn what SharePoint lists and libraries do, how they integrate into Office client applications, and how you can use them in your applications to minimize coding and provide users with flexibility. (Introduction for Developers)

	Best Buy for Business: Business Growth Using MOSS 2007

Presented By: Jay Devers; Brent Delzer- Best Buy for Business

Best Buy for Business (BBfB) is one of the services growth arms of Best Buy and they leverage SharePoint heavily in their bid process to improve bid accuracy, decrease turnaround time, and monitor operations. At this session, the business leaders and business architects will walk you through what they do, why they do it, and how it is done.

	Build an Automated Expense Reimbursement Process Using InfoPath and SharePoint

Presented By: Asif Rehmani(MVP)

Have you ever had to fill out a paper form for reimbursement of expenses then mail it in? Of course, you also need to mail in the receipts as well. Then begins the wait for the approval process where your manager and then her/his manager and then (what it feels like) the entire accounting team gets to review the expenses on the paper form you have submitted before issuing a check for your reimbursement. Come to this session to see how you can automate the whole process. From designing the expense reimbursement form using Microsoft Office InfoPath to publishing it on a Forms Server, then implementing an approval process using workflow and enabling a document library to receive the receipts directly through email. You will see it all done here. Oh, by the way.. all of this will be accomplished without using any code!

	Build Interactive User Experiences with the Silverlight Blueprint for SharePoint

Presented By: Patrick Tisseghem; John Juback

Learn how to leverage Web 2.0 technologies to build a rich and interactive end-user experiences for SharePoint sites and content using the Microsoft Silverlight Blueprint for SharePoint. Topics covered are: building ASP.NET AJAX 1.0 enabled Web Parts; creating and consuming SharePoint Web Services that are AJAX-enabled; Web Parts hosting Silverlight applications; techniques to have the Silverlight applications communicated back and forth with SharePoint content such as items in lists and libraries, user profile information and search results; samples of how publishing portals can be enriched with Silverlight navigation controls and enhanced page layouts; demos on how to build Windows Vista Gadgets that display SharePoint content using traditional UI techniques as well as using Silverlight.

	Building Composite Office Business Applications

Presented By: Karthik Ravindran

Composite Solution Architectures when applied effectively can help achieve the following business benefits: - Integrate disparate systems and related data streams into unified, composite, and familiar channels for user consumption - Enable incremental value in solutions without requiring monolithic solution deployments and full solution upgrades - Empower business architects and business domain experts to self compose solutions required to address their information processing requirements, while retaining the required levels of governance and federation. These benefits when materialized can significantly improve the overall agility of IT investments in business solutions. The Microsoft Office System is solutions platform that enables the materialization of the benefits of composite solution architectures. Office Business Applications (OBAs) built on the platform can be architected and implemented to achieve the related goals and benefits. This session will help you understand the fundamentals and benefits of composite solution architectures, the core capabilities required from a platform perspective to materialize composite solution architectures, and the inherent composite solution platform capabilities of the Microsoft Office System. Related demos and toolkits will be used to illustrate the capabilities discussed and show how they can be implemented in practice to deliver real world benefits.

	Case Study: Building a Rich Portal for Zune Lifestyle Marketing

Presented By: Stan Liu; Paul Chang; Javier Farfan

The Zune Lifestyle Marketing portal is an internal Microsoft site to illustrate the impact and involvement of the Zune product in various lifestyle events. Using only out-of-the-box SharePoint 2007 functionality, with a creative twist, a feature rich portal was created with a branded UI and easy method for updating content. This session will look at the benefits the solution brought to the Zune Lifestyle Marketing team and discuss how web design techniques and custom XSLT were applied to enhance the functionality and usability of the portal. A demo is also included to show how to transform a basic Photo Library into a photo viewer with dynamically cropped thumbnails and a parameterized Data View Web part.

	Creating Solutions with the Business Data Catalog

Presented By: Todd Baginski(MVP)

Learn what the Business Data Catalog (BDC) is, why you would want to use it, and how to create applications that leverage the BDC. This session demonstrates what functionality the out-of-the-box BDC Web Parts provide and shows how they can be leveraged to quickly create applications inside SharePoint without writing a line of code! The session also demonstrates how custom Web Parts and Windows Forms Applications may be used to access BDC data when the out-of-the-box BDC Web Parts don’t meet the needs of a project.

	Deep Dive into Microsoft’s Next Generation Online Services for Communication and Collaboration

Presented By: John Betz; Todd Wanke

This session dives into the next generation of Microsoft Online services, set to launch in the fall of 2008. The new suite of services includes SharePoint, Exchange, Live Meeting, and Office Communications Server functionality hosted by Microsoft. This session provides an in-depth review of the service, including a first look demonstration public beta.

	Designing Reusable and Configurable SharePoint Features for Line-of-Business Application Development

Presented By: Welly Lee; NJ Wang

This session presents Microsoft IT's experiences in developing internal line-of-business solutions using SharePoint. Designing SharePoint custom features for reusability allows the team to expand SharePoint capability to meet common business scenarios. Using the reusable feature as the building block, the team can put together a business solution without additional custom codes. Two live demos—based on real applications that the team developed—are presented to illustrate the approach.

	Developing applications on SharePoint: Build your own Resource-Tracking and Staffing Management Solution

Presented By: Jerome Thiebaud; Phong Nguyen; Zandy Garrard; Nicolas Leger

Come learn about developing sophisticated composite applications on SharePoint. Learn how to build a solution leveraging a broad range of Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 Enterprise capabilities to help consulting companies track client engagements and business performance. Custom development will be exposed to tailor workflows to specific business process (Microsoft Visual Studio 2005, Office SharePoint Designer 2007), generate Excel Services reports based on SharePoint-stored data, and integrate processes with line-of-business systems.

	Easy Jet: MOSS 2007 As an Information Platform for the Intranet and Beyond

Presented By: Andy Caddy- Easy Jet

Find out how Europe's leading low-cost airline, EasyJet, built their Intranet on SharePoint and is now exploiting SharePoint as a platform for new projects.

	ERM and Compliance Management Solutions in a MOSS 2007 Environment

Presented By: Mike Orloff- Ember ec3 inc.

This session presents an integrated approach to Enterprise Risk and Compliance Management initiatives on Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007. In today’s heavily regulated and increasingly risky corporate environment, companies are actively seeking to proactively understand and mitigate their risks and compliance obligations while driving large productivity gains for risk and compliance personnel. .HeatShield is a flexible, scalable, highly configurable Enterprise Risk and Compliance Management platform that is deeply and seamlessly integrated with the Microsoft Office suite. .HeatShield helps leverage an enterprise’s existing technology, increases the speed of end-user adoption and automates key practices in use to drive down costs and increase the returns on technology investments. With proven field experience in some of the most complex organizations and regulatory environments, ember will share its observations related to implementing .HeatShield and leveraging MOSS 2007 capabilities to address specific, discrete compliance and risk challenges as well as broadly addressing enterprise-wide, holistic risk management mandates.

	Extend Your MOSS 2007 Environment with SQL Server Reporting Services

Presented By: Amit Goyal; Prash Shirolkar

Deliver enterprise reports to all users through one centralized user interface through deep integration between Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 and SQL Server Reporting. Learn how to extend the new SharePoint Server 2007 with the power of SQL Server 2005 Reporting Services to integrate rich reporting and business intelligence dashboards into your SharePoint Server 2007 environment providing portal sites optimized for all reporting needs. Topics include configuring Reporting Services for a SharePoint environment, managing reports and models within SharePoint document libraries, and integrating with Excel Services and Report Center via the ReportViewer Web Part.

	Harmonizing People, Processes, and Business Systems: Real Time Collaboration with MOSS 2007 and Extending a Fab40 Template to Meet Unique Business Needs

Presented By: Mark Peters; Gregory J. Romaniuk; James Lee- MTS Allstream

This session focuses on how combining Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 and Microsoft Office Communication Server 2007 platforms can provide real-time collaboration capabilities for companies—enabling the integration of presence management and conferencing functionality into an existing SharePoint Portal. We discuss scenarios on how to apply the technologies to improve business agility by collaborating effectively with both employees and clients. The session also demonstrates the common MOSS 2007 marketplace scenario of extending a Fab40 template beyond the universal to cover the unique business needs of a client. See a case study including the main business requirements, the decision to select the Fab40 template, the shortcomings of the template as they relate to the needs, the challenges and the choices between extending out of box functionality or building your own. Attention is paid to each of the MOSS 2007 capabilities used to create the full solution. Join this session and experience the MTS Allstream difference first hand. Raffle prizes available.

	Hitachi/DCP Midstream: DCP Midstream and Hitachi Consulting Connecting Organizations with MOSS 2007

Presented By: Seth Weddon; Terry Bailey- Hitachi/DCP Midstream

Hitachi Consulting helped DCP Midstream, an oil and gas company in Denver, CO, leverage Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 in the way MOSS can and should be leveraged. They developed composite applications that pull data from a variety of backend systems, including Oracle financials and various LOB applications. They automated previously manual business processes, leveraging MOSS workflow capabilities, and they connected DCP Midstream with their partners and customers by using MOSS not just for their intranet, but for their partner and customer portal as well.

	Igniting MOSS 2007 for Rich Media Digital Asset Management

Presented By: Mark Kashman; Stephen Smith

The Microsoft Interactive Media Manager (IMM) solution is a rich media collaboration system that extends and enhances the capabilities of Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007. The core technology supporting IMM (Microsoft Silverlight, Workflow, AJAX, Web services, and more) enables cross-browser/cross platform playback and access to digital assets, utilizing an extensible graph-based Resource Description Framework (RDF) metadata model. The solution extends existing technology investments, and helps create a robust ecosystem for asset management, with no file size limitations and very robust metadata capabilities. To provide a real-world customer perspective, we will be joined by Starz Entertainment's Director of Media Systems Integration, Stephen Smith. He focuses on how Starz is using the IMM solution running on MOSS 2007. We also showcase a rich DEMO tour of the IMM solution.

	Implementing Governance, Risk Management and Compliance – New Paradig

Presented By: J.R. Reagan- Bearing Point

This session highlights the importance of an Integrated Risk Management and Compliance approach to identify, assess, analyze, plan, document, and monitor risk strategies and mitigation plans for a specific department or for the whole enterprise—with Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 as a key enabler for this approach. Bearing Point is a leading Global player in the risk management marketplace deploying more than 6,000 professionals in risk, compliance, and security across more than 40+ countries. It is organized globally under the Risk, Compliance, & Security Solution Suite which provides a holistic end-to-end solution leveraging the best of its resources around a core portfolio of offerings. Having executed thousands of successful risk projects, Bearing Point shares its experiences around comprehensive, cross- industry, simple and actionable risk management frameworks.

	Inside Microsoft: How Microsoft IT Used Excel Services to Create an Office Business Application That Supports Microsoft’s Top Executives

Presented By: Sergei Gundorov; Mike Reese

Learn how Microsoft IT moved Microsoft Office Excel 2007 based Executive Reporting UI that supports top level corporate executives' decision making process to the web, leveraging Excel Services. Find out how Microsoft Office SharePoint Server (MOSS) 2007 makes it easy to connect Microsoft SQL Server 2005 databases and Analysis Services with Excel Web Access. Learn about integration of Microsoft Office InfoPath forms with automation and encrypted data connection to collect user inputs for commentary and collaboration. Discover how Office Open XML file format allows developers to manipulate server side workbooks to provide end users with a secure scorecard viewing experience in the browser and not sacrifice the rich client functionality of Excel 2007, while meeting the requirement of no client-side code install.

	Integrating Microsoft Dynamics GP with Office SharePoint Server 2007

Presented By: Anthony Cross; John Dooley

The latest release of Microsoft Dynamics GP has many integration points with Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007. Understand the value that these provide out-of-the-box, and also what opportunities there are to customize them to suit your unique business needs.

	IT Analyst Panel: AMR Research, Forrester, and Gartner Analysts Weigh In

Presented By: Gene Phifer, Gartner; Rob Koplowitz, Forrester; Kyle McNabb, Forrester; Jim Murphy, AMR

Technology analysts are in a unique position in the IT space. They have access to and hear from every piece of this industry—from mega vendors to start-ups, organizations of 1000 end users to 100,000, partners and consultants―they see it all. In this session, five analysts across AMR Research, Forrester, and Gartner provide their insight on the trends affecting the way you think about and plan for your technology strategies. What's the right balance between allowing users the freedom to collaborate and controlling the content that they create? What’s after Web 2.0? Come hear these IT analysts weigh in.

	Leverage the Power of the Business Data Catalog (BDC) to Integrate Content across the Enterprise

Presented By: Frankie Basso- Systemware, Inc.

The Business Data Catalog (BDC) is arguably the most powerful feature in Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007. Many organizations have contemplated using the BDC to bridge the gap between MOSS 2007 and external business applications such as CRM and ERP. In this session, we discuss how the BDC can be used to seamlessly integrate content housed across the enterprise located in applications, data streams, as well as ECM systems on various platforms: Linux, AIX, Solaris, and even z/OS (mainframe). Learn how to bring new life to legacy content by providing SharePoint with a bridge to “everything else” while increasing visibility across disparate silos of content.

	Leveraging MOSS 2007 for Business Intelligence

Presented By: Jerry Kaczmarowski; Joseph Davey; Joe Berg- Slalom Consulting

Portals technology has come a long way over the last 10 years. Portals started out as a convenient way to add structure to Website content. They’ve grown into a one stop shop for access to content, data, and line-of-business functionality. While many users and technologists are familiar with the content and document management aspects of SharePoint, fewer users have been exposed to the new business intelligence capabilities that have been built into Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007. We highlight the variety of ways that SharePoint can be used to share business intelligence information. We use client specific examples to illustrate how SharePoint native KPIs can be used to display information from within SharePoint or other office tools like Microsoft Office Excel. We also show how SharePoint can be integrated with Microsoft Office PerformancePoint Server to provide access to data from Microsoft SQL Server and other data sources.