Beginning Excel Services

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Excel Services has the potential to revolutionize many industries because Excel 2007 has a number of key investments around UDFs, or User Defined Functions. They revolve around two main areas: allowing UDFs to take advantage of Excel improvements, and extending those UDF-based Excel solutions to the server side with Excel Services.Excel Services is a new technology being delivered as part of Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007. Excel Services will enable managed and secure distribution of Excel reports, incorporating spreadsheets in business intelligence dashboards and portals, protecting the proprietary information in spreadsheets, and building custom applications with Excel-based logic.This book will walk you through the process of understanding what Excel Services is, how your business can benefit from it, and how to incorporate it in your solutions. Table of contents : AcknowledgmentsIntroductionPart I: Overview of Excel ServicesChapter 1: Introduction to Excel ServicesChapter 2: Getting Started with Excel ServicesChapter 3: ArchitecturePart II: Working with Excel ServicesChapter 4: Workbook SupportChapter 5: External DataChapter 6: Capacity and Deployment PlanningChapter 7: Administration of Excel ServicesChapter 8: SecurityPart III: How-To ScenariosChapter 9: Sharing Workbooks with the BrowserChapter 10: Interacting with Workbooks in the BrowserChapter 11: Controlling Workbook DistributionChapter 12: Business Intelligence SolutionsChapter 13: Offloading Workbook Calculation to the ServerChapter 14: Building Custom SolutionsAppendix: TroubleshootingIndex Market Description : · Primary Audience: The target readership includes developers who need to come up to speed on the new technologies in Office 2007 and who may be responsible for evaluatingand deploying Office 2007 and Office SharePoint 2007.· Secondary Audience: It is also for Excel users, programmers, report developers, and software integrators. About Author : Liviu Asnash is a principal development lead at Microsoft and currently manages the development of Excel Services. He has over 12 years of experience is enterprise-level software development, focusing in the areas of server products and business intelligence. Eran Megiddo is the Principal Lead Program Manager for Excel Services at Microsoft, and manages the program management team that is responsible for defining the functionality of the first release of the product, and the overall product roadmap. He also contributes to the overall Excel, Office, and Microsoft Business Intelligence product strategy. Craig Thomas is currently the release test lead for Microsoft’s Excel Services. He has over 13 years of experience testing and developing custom solutions and server products, including Microsoft Exchange Server 2003 and Microsoft Office XP.