Introduced Excel Services , PerformancePoint Services, and PowerPivot for advanced business intelligence and reporting.
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Microsoft SharePoint Server 2010 was a major release in Microsoft's web-based collaboration platform, significantly modernizing how organizations managed content, communities, and business data. Though it reached , it remains a landmark version that introduced many core features still present in modern SharePoint today. Key Features & Capabilities
BCS replaced the older Business Data Catalog (BDC). It allowed read/write interactions with external line-of-business (LOB) systems (e.g., SAP, SQL Server) via external content types. For the first time, non-developers could create external lists that acted like native SharePoint lists, enabling data mashups without custom code—albeit with performance caveats.
SharePoint 2010 moved away from folder-based organization toward metadata navigation. The introduction of the allowed organizations to define a centralized taxonomy (tags and hierarchies) that could be applied across the entire enterprise, making search and retrieval significantly faster.