Chapter 9

Managing Web Applications and Host Sites

Microsoft Exam Objective Covered in This Chapter:

• Deploying and Managing Applications
  • Managing Web Applications

The concept of Business Intelligence (BI) is difficult to describe because it isn’t composed of a single component. In general, BI is a collection of all the computer-related applications and techniques used to locate, mine, and analyze business data regarding sales revenue by product or department or as associated with income vs. cost. Applied to SharePoint, this is a collection of applications and tools that provide these data-mining features, and that is why this topic is contained in a chapter on managing web applications. While Chapter 4, “Configuring Service Applications,” introduced SharePoint application configuration, this chapter will dig deeper into the use of the BI applications and describe how you can use them for specific jo....