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An action is simply an operation upon a selected item. The operation can retrieve information about the selected item, or it can launch a program or Web page with the selected item as a parameter.

We’ve talked about scorecards and KPIs, now it’s time to put it all together and build a dashboard. I will be using PerformancePoint as my tool of choice because as of Office 14, it will be included with MOSS.

Well, back again. It has been a while. Today I’d like to move onto the subject of KPIs. What is a KPI you say? A Key Performance Indicator is a measure of how well (or poorly) targets were met.

In this Part 4, which is much less technical, the focus is two primary ways to consume BDC data through the UI. This will include Business Data Web Parts and incorporating Business Data into SharePoint lists.

Welcome to part three of our BDC series. In this article our focus will be on consuming Web Services from BDC. It will cover the value of Web Services, how to develop the Web Services to be BDC capable, and introduce how the Application Definition File describes these Web Services.

In this article, the emphasis will be on the Application Definition File (or ADF). We’ll make sure you have a good understanding of the role it plays, how it works, and a give you a good overview of the XML schema that is used.

Welcome to the first of an eight part series on the Business Data Catalog (BDC). While BDC is an enormously powerful tool, it’s also fairly complex and not well understood. This series is considered technical in nature and intended for SharePoint installers, administrators or developers.

There is no limit to the ways you can use a scorecard or a dashboard except your imagination. That’s all very well and good, but how do you the humble technician explain it to the decision makers? There really are two audiences – those making the IT strategic decisions and business managers. How to get them onboard? That I can help with! In part 2 of our discussion on Dashboards & SharePoint let’s look at what’s in it for everyone.

As they say, let’s start at the very beginning. Business Intelligence (as if I need to explain it to you!) is a generic term used to describe the technology and processes whose primary purpose is to monitor, analyse and plan thereby driving Business Process Improvement, which is, shock horror(!!), according to the same Gartner research, the Number 1 business priority… who’da thunk it!