Guest blogger: SharePoint 2010 Developer Courses and Business Intelligence

All this week we will be featuring posts from guest blogger Joel Jeffery. Joel is a Firebrand Training instructor, who is currently developing courseware for our brand new SharePoint 2010 Configuring / Administrator and SharePoint 2010 Developer courses...

This is definitely an exciting time for SharePoint 2007 (MOSS and WSS 3.0) developers who are looking to acquire new skills. In this post I will be looking at SharePoint 2010 Developer Courses and Business Intelligence.

The Microsoft SharePoint 2010 platform has really been developed well. In the other three video blogs, I talked about some of the most impressive SharePoint 2010 features:

• SharePoint 2010 Enabling Business Agility using Workflow
• SharePoint 2010 Business Connectivity Services and Offline Synchronisation
• SharePoint 2010 Sandbox Solutions

But there really is so much more for the SharePoint 2010 Developer to sink their teeth into:

• Client Object Model (for .NET, Sliverlight and JavaScript)
• LINQ to SharePoint
• SharePoint Designer 2010 and Visio 2010 Integration
• Claims Based Security
• Visual Studio 2010 SharePoint Projects and Project Items
• SharePoint Powershell Integration
• Lists and Libraries Enhancements
• Solution and Feature Lifecycle with the Versioning and Upgrade Framework
• InfoPath 2010 Forms
• Office Web Access
• Branding Improvements
• Enterprise Content Management Improvements, Taxonomies
• Search Improvements
• Excel Services, PerformancePoint Services, PowerPivot for SharePoint
• Access Services

To conclude my stint as the Firebrand Training Blog guest blogger, I’ve created a video overview of the new Business Intelligence features in SharePoint 2010. This also includes a look at: the Business Intelligence Center definition, Excel Web Access and a sneak peek at the REST API for Excel Services.