Intelligent Insight on PerformancePoint

Here's some early information about Microsoft's BI conference planned for May 9th. With the release of SQL Server 2005, Business Scorecard Manager 2005, the 2007 Office system, the ProClarity acquisition and the first Community Technology Preview (CTP...

In a previous blog I talked about the value of PerformancePoint for the finance function. Here's a link to a great post by John Colbert who writes for b-eye . Now whether you think Excel is good or bad - and believe you me I'm the first to suggest it...

Anyone - who's a regular reader of this blog (I think there's about 3 other than my immediate family) will know that I have a real fascination of the role web 2.0 will have in transforming the business intelligence landscape. Over the past couple of weeks...

Here's some really useful guidance from Alyson Powell Irwin who works in the program management team on Monitoring & Analytics. PerformancePoint Monitoring Filters work with SSRS reports, both relational and OLAP. To configure a dashboard pages...

Completely off topic but thought it was worth sharing. Via Seth Godin 's blog. Quite extraordinary.

A wealth of new content (templates, project plans and worksheets) has been made available on TechNet to assist partners and customers with implementing PerformancePoint Server 2007. There are links to this content below: Project Plan Framework (.pptx...

I've been out of the office for almost a month now but certainly been busy with fatherhood I have a beautiful baby daughter and last week we released to manufacturing (RTM) both Windows Vista and the Microsoft Office System 2007. I've been running...

Here's a link to the second part of a three part series of articles on business/IT alignment from Linda McHugh . She discusses how IT can apply realistic and established tactics to address the alignment challenges through planning and project methods...

I read this post from Hugh MacLeod just before the holidays - and it got me thinking about the role of extracting intelligence from ERP (or for that matter any transactional systems) and perhaps more critically from barely repeatable processes (BRP)....

  Completely off topic but I saw this post today from Seth Godin which prompted me to share this. Ever since I was a child Puma has been my sports footwear of choice. Why? Put simply my best friend's father was a brand manager for their footwear...

It's now live and links can be found on the PerformancePoint team blog . So what's up there: On Office Online: Links to README and other useful information http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/performancepoint/FX102380591033.aspx On TechNet: For the IT pro...

The 2nd Annual Microsoft Business Intelligence Conference 2008 will run from October 6th-8th 2008. This is great news - the first conference was a fantastic 3 days and I'm sure with the launch of SQL Server 2008 this will provide a great opportunity for...

Kind of old news now but The Times have published the 50 best business blogs . They cover technology, media & marketing, and other industry sectors. So there's some obvious ones in there but a couple that I didn't know about. One in particular was...

I have to give Jason Morales in the PerformancePoint team in the US all the credit for this idea. He has began to pull together some great content and links from across the OBA business and distribute it to some of his key customer and partner contacts...

Check out my new business cards. OK - so there not official MS issue but they certainly kick off a conversation. Our vision for creating ubiquitous business intelligence and our vision for PerformancePoint is captured really neatly below. You can order...

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...

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 ....

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...

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...

If I look at how vendors and even customers have viewed performance management - it's been focused largely on the finance department which for the most part historically makes perfectly good sense. Finance departments make decisions on these types of...

OK so it's still REALLY early days and the product's still to be released but the guys at Solver have been working with Oticon in Denmark for many months on this solution around PerformancePoint planning. I'd encourage you to take a look at it. Over the...

Building the PerformancePoint Server platform as with most Microsoft products we rarely build vertical solution offerings. Why? Simple - partners have the domain expertise and insight to turn our products into great vertical and horizontal solutions....

Here's a wealth of useful online information around training, technical whitepapers, upcoming webcasts and demos. Also note the availability of the quick start PerformancePoint competency beta exam is available through till November 9th. Online...

This morning I got a really lovely email from Raja who it seems enjoys my blog - thanks Raja. It's actually making these kinds of connections through blogging that allows for great conversations and ultimately important connections which just aren't possible...

Best Practices on Using Calculations Use calculations only with Standard KPIs (non leaf level). Accept the default values for Standard KPIs (leaf level) and Objective KPIs. Detailed Description of Behavior To understand how the Calculation...