Office 2013 and SharePoint 2013 application services
Published: July 16, 2012
Learn about Access Services, Excel Services, Machine Translation Service, PerformancePoint Services, PowerPoint Automation Services, Visio Services, and Word Automation Services.
Applies to: SharePoint Foundation 2013 | SharePoint Server 2013
Office and SharePoint services run on individual application servers in the farm and provide a wide range of functionality. The services that are described in this section provide functionality across the following scenarios:
Business intelligence (BI) and Insights enable people to find, analyze, and share information about their work or business.
Simple apps let users create basic apps that contain a reliable backing store.
File conversion converts Word and PowerPoint files and streams to other formats.
Translation translates sites, documents, and streams for multilingual support.
The following table shows high-level scenarios that apply to the services described in this section.
BI/Insights | Simple apps | File conversion | Translation | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Access Services | X | X | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Excel Services | X | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Machine Translation Service | X | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
PerformancePoint Services | X | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
PowerPoint Automation Services | X | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Visio Services | X | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Word Automation Services | X |
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Not all services and scenarios are represented in this section. For links to developer documentation for other services, see Additional resources. |
Use the links in Table 2 to learn more about developing with the Office and SharePoint services described in this section: Access Services, Excel Services, Machine Translation Service, PerformancePoint Services, PowerPoint Automation Services, Visio Services, and Word Automation Services.
Service | Description |
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Access Services | Enables users to create, deploy, and manage collaborative web-based Access applications. |
Excel Services | Enables users to load, calculate, and display Excel workbooks on SharePoint sites. |
Machine Translation Service | Provides automatic machine translation of sites, documents, and sites. |
PerformancePoint Services | Creates and publishes dashboards that contain interactive data visualizations (such as scorecards and reports) that enable people to monitor and analyze their business performance. |
PowerPoint Automation Services | Provides unattended, server-side conversion of PowerPoint presentations into other formats. |
Visio Services | Enables users to view and interact with Visio drawings stored on SharePoint sites. |
Word Automation Services | Provides unattended, server-side conversion of documents that are supported by Word. |
Not all services and scenarios are represented in this section. For links to developer documentation for other services, see Additional resources.
Date | Description |
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July 16, 2012 | Initial publication |
