Service Applications in SharePoint

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Service Applications:
A service application provides a resource that can be shared across sites throughout a farm, and can be accessed by users through a hosting web application. Service applications are associated to web applications by service application connections. Some services can be shared across farms.

SharePoint Foundation Service Applications

Service Application
Has DB?
Cross Farm Capable?
Business Data Connectivity
Yes
Yes
Usage and Health Data Collection
Yes
No
Web Analytics
No
Yes
MS SP Foundation Subscription Settings Service
Yes
No

SharePoint Server 2010 Standard Service Applications

Service Application
Has DB?
Cross Farm Capable?
Managed Meta Data Service
Yes
Yes
Search
Yes
Yes
Secure store service
Yes
Yes
User Profile Service
Yes
No
State Service
Yes
No

SharePoint Server 2010 Enterprise Service Applications

Service Application
Has DB?
Cross Farm Capable?
Access Service
No
No
Excel Service
No
No
Visio Graphic  Service
No
No
Word Automation Service
No
No
Performance Point  Service
No
No

Below are the service applications which are introduced in SP2013
App Management Service Application
The App management service is a new service application that enables you to purchase apps from Microsoft marketplace and to create your internal enterprise apps catalogue for hosting internally developed apps.
App management service allows the SharePoint Administrator to manage the Apps available in their farm, permissions and the licenses for these Apps.
Machine Translation Service Application
The translation service provides an automated translation for SharePoint content through the integration with the available cloud-based translation services or it can create translation package to be delivered to a translation vendor and import back the translated content.
Work Management Service Application
One of the brilliant features in SharePoint 2013 personal site is providing the user with a single view of all the tasks assigned to him in all the SharePoint sites (projects, teams…etc.). The Work Management service application is responsible for collecting this information and not only from SharePoint sites, the Work Management service application can aggregate the tasks from Microsoft Exchange, Microsoft Project server and a custom provider model can be integrated.



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