I'm going to be incommunicado for a couple of weeks whilst I treat my family to a long overdue holiday in France. There will be lots to tell you when I return including a date for the PerformancePoint Server launch, and our plans around a UK business...

It comes as no surprise that Adrian Downes and Nick Barclay we're responsible for pulling together the "Rational Guide To Microsoft Office Business Scorecard Manager 2005" when I read this post from Nick . They're both EXTREMELY knowledgeable but what...

How 'e' are you? is a new research project that's being run by a good friend of mine Tim Elkington that aims to track how people are using the internet. The site includes an e-test that calculates a user's e-score (0 - 100), places them in an e-group...

Next week I'll be in Denver at the Microsoft Worldwide Partner Conference. If you're going and want to catch-up let me know. It's easy to schedule a meeting via the WPC connect site . Although I'm still kind of old fashioned so you can also just give...

Via Steve Clayton ...this is just a bit of fun. I scored a respectable 81% - although having begun to play around now with FaceBook - which is extremely addictive in itself I may be trading one addiction for another. Technorati Tags: Blogging , FaceBook

From Alyson Powell Erwin Time Intelligence in PerformancePoint Monitoring allows you to map your data source to a reference date and easily build time dynamic filters based off of the current date. Dashboard filters can be created that build time sets...

This was actually asked at the Technical Airlift session in London today. More from Alyson - PerformancePoint Planning cubes are generally more targeted smaller cubes than your general cubes created from your data warehouse. These cubes require...

More great stuff from Alyson. PerformancePoint Monitoring supports the creation of KPIs and Scorecards from SAP BW 3.5 cubes. The below steps outline how to create a Data Source and Scorecard. 1. Right click on Data Sources , select New Data Source ....

Here's another great tip from Alyson Powell Erwin in the PPS planning team. When integrating PerformancePoint Planning with PerformancePoint Monitoring, you need to keep the following in mind: PerformancePoint Planning cubes are recreated in each environment...