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Creating a Business Intelligence Center - SharePoint Tutorial
From the course: SharePoint 2010 Essential Training
Creating a Business Intelligence Center
There's a new site template called the Business Intelligence Center. This only available in SharePoint 2010 Enterprise and only as a top-level site in a new site collection. So I'm going to create one here. I'm in SharePoint Central Administration, which is the only place I can create it, so you may have to get your administrator to do this for you. It's available under the Enterprise tab as the Business Intelligence Center. I'll just give it the name of sites/business. It doesn't matter what you call it of course. It is a normal SharePoint site so it's made of a collection of lists and libraries, but it's very, very different in intention from typical SharePoint sites like team sites, Document Workspaces, and so on. This site is about understanding your data, not about collaborating on it. It's the site your CEO, your CFO, your business analysts want, the one that allows them to scan the thousand different pieces of information that are changing all the time. It's a way of getting…