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SharePoint 2013 provides the following methods of integrating with data that are not stored in SharePoint:
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Access web apps
. SharePoint 2013 provides two Access service
applications: Access Services 2010, as provided in SharePoint 2010, and
Access Services. To use either of these service applications, the
Enterprise Client Access Licenses (CALs) are required. Access Services
allows users to build quickly no-code, web-based form applications,
known as web apps. These
web apps are SharePoint Apps and can be deployed to SharePoint App
stores. Data and Access objects for each Access web app is saved in its
own Microsoft SQL Server 2012 database and not in SharePoint lists.
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Access Services 2010
. This service application enables you to publish an
Access 2010 database, which creates a web database that is exposed as a
SharePoint site where data held in Access tables is moved to SharePoint
lists and forms and reports are created as webpages. You can then
access the web database using the browser or the Access client
application. Access web databases cannot be created using Access 2013.
You can still view and edit a web database that was previously created
by using Access 2010 and SharePoint Server 2010, and you can republish
it to SharePoint Server 2013. You cannot convert a web database to an
Access web app automatically; however, you can convert a web database
to an Access web app manually by importing the data from the web
database into a new Access web app and then re-create the user
interface and business logic.
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Excel Services
. With this service application, you can publish Excel
2013 workbooks to SharePoint 2013, which allows users to view and
interact with the workbooks in their browser.
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PerformancePoint Services
. To use PerformancePoint Services, Enterprise CALs are
required. PerformancePoint Services enable you to monitor and analyze
business tools by providing tools to build dashboards, reports,
scorecards, and key performance indicators (KPIs). All data used in
PerformancePoint is classified as external data, including data stored
in SharePoint lists or Excel files published to Excel Services.
However, data stored within SharePoint can be used in PerformancePoint
only in read-only mode. You can use PerformancePoint to connect to
tabular data in SQL Server tables, Excel workbooks, and
multidimensional (Analysis Services) data sources, and you can use a
PowerPivot model built using the PowerPivot add-in for Excel as a data
source.
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Visio Services
. Visio Services enables you to share and view Visio
2013 files in the browser without the Visio client application or the
Visio viewer installed on your local computer. To view your own Visio
files using the Visio Service application, Enterprise CALs are
required. The Visio drawing can contain visuals that are linked to data
from an external data source. Visio Services can fetch the data from
these linked data sources and update the visuals of a Visio drawing.
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Microsoft InfoPath
. With InfoPath, you can create both forms and
browser-based forms. Users entering data into forms require Microsoft
InfoPath Filler 2013. For browser-based forms, users need only a
browser and InfoPath Form Services. Form templates for both types of
forms can be created using Microsoft InfoPath Designer 2013. Forms
created using InfoPath can connect to data sources such as SharePoint
lists or web services. Forms or browser-based forms can be saved in a
SharePoint Form library. The ASPX pages in external lists that allow
you to create, read, update, and modify data from an external system
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InfoPath Form Services (IFS)
. This
service application enables InfoPath browser-based forms to be rendered
in SharePoint 2013. To use this service, Enterprise CALs are required.
However, if you only have Standard CALs, you can still see InfoPath
association and initiation forms that have been created with SharePoint
2010 workflows. IFS is not a SharePoint 2013 service application; it is
configured at the farm level using the Central Administration website.
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SQL Server 2012 SP1 Reporting Services (SSRS)
. There are two components that integrate SSRS with SharePoint:
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Reporting Services SharePoint mode
. Also known as integrated mode,
Reporting Services SharePoint mode is based on a completely new
architecture, which is why you will see it in the SharePoint Central
Administration website as a service application with a SharePoint
Shared Service Application Pool. You configure it using the SharePoint
Central Administration website or using Windows PowerShell commands.
You no longer use the Reporting Services Configuration Manager, as you
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Reporting Services add-in
. This add-in enables you to run SSRS Report Server
within SharePoint 2013, where the SSRS reports, items, and properties
are stored in SharePoint. Users can browse to SharePoint libraries to
find the reports.
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Data Sources gallery using SharePoint Designer
. Using Microsoft FrontPage 2003, and then later
Microsoft SharePoint Designer 2007, you could connect, present, and
modify data from several types of external data sources using the Data
Source Library and Data Source Details task panes. This method is still
available with SharePoint Designer 2013 by using the Data Sources
gallery, which you can access through the Navigation pane. However,
SharePoint Designer no longer has the Design or Split view; therefore,
once you have added a Data Form Web Part (DFWP) using the ribbon, much
of the subsequent customization needs to be completed using XSLT in
Code view.
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