Visio Services Data Authentication

Visio Services is one of the least attended MS BI service, but is one of the most effective service in terms of presentation. Visio services in Sharepoint 2010 adds a new level of capability to Data bound visio diagrams i.e. Strategy Maps. Whenever any external service / interface has to access data, authentication is of the the most primary and necessary step.

Answers to all the probable queries related to data authentication in visio services can be found from this whitepaper. You might not feel like reading this right away and I would agree to it, but it's not a bad idea to keep this whitepaper in your repository of technical reference documents.

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