Custom editing extensions for Dashboard Designer in PerformancePoint Services 2010 are now implemented using web pages to provide a thin editing environment and a better deployment story.  Therefore, unfortunately, custom extensions for Dashboard...

All PerformancePoint content is stored in SharePoint, which makes it easy for employees to share and re-use that content. But what about content that you want to restrict? This article will give you instructions for locking down PerformancePoint content...

If you were one of the few people that used the scorecard pivot feature in PerformancePoint 2007 Dashboard Designer, you may have noticed that it is no longer present in PerformancePoint Services 2010.  There are a number of reasons for this. ...

Today’s post is by Jason Robertson, showing some ways to have a conversation with data using analytic charts in PerformancePoint Services for SharePoint 2010. I built a simple model using Bureau of Transportation 's Airline On-Time Performance and...

PerformancePoint Monitoring Filters work with SSRS reports, both relational and OLAP. To configure a dashboard pages to use common filters to drive SSRS reports and other PerformancePoint views, follow the below steps. For this example, we will configure...

PerformancePoint Services supports five types of data sources: Analysis Services Excel Services Excel Workbook SharePoint List SQL Server Table Of the five, only the Excel Workbook data source does not have an authentication model (the workbook is embedded...

In a session I gave at TechReady 10, I talked about the difference between dashboards and dashboard definitions. In the session, I made a point to talk about the difference between dashboards and dashboard definitions. Dashboard definitions are the ddwx...

The purpose of this article is to briefly describe the caching structure of Microsoft Office Performance Point Server (PPS) and to help give a better understanding the caching structure and its function. We’ll discuss what information gets cached, where...

A design pattern that may help you link to dashboards from existing systems is passing filter values in the URL. For example:       Although this pattern’s as old as the web, you asked us to make PerformancePoint dashboards work with...

Analytic charts & grids are interactive visualizations rendered by PerformancePoint Services for SharePoint 2010. They let users drill down, across, and through any hierarchy in the model: hook it up to an Analysis Services database or PowerPivot...

In building scorecards, sometimes the end result can lose impact if it contains information that has no value. One such kind of information are members that return empty results. Today, you have the ability on a published scorecard, in SharePoint, to...

Most of the customers who have been using PerformancePoint Server 2007 have accumulated several months, if not years, worth of dashboards and data. Their KPIs, grids, charts, scorecards, and custom objects have gone to good use, providing a great deal...

Connections are used to pass values between Web Parts in a SharePoint BI or PerformancePoint dashboard.  They allow content displayed within different Web Parts on a page to be coordinated and synchronized.  This is central functionality in...

Time Intelligence Formula ( TI Formula ) allows time periods, sets of time periods and ranges to be specified using a simple, easy to understand syntax. Formula Structure   [ ( ] <Period> [ <Offset> [ ) ][ .<Function> [ <Offset>...

PerformancePoint 2010 has some new settings that control how authentication to the data source itself is accomplished. You’ll find these options under the “Editor” tab for an individual data source: If you were web administrator of a PerformancePoint...

Setting the time properties in our Data Sources lays the groundwork for Time Intelligence. Essentially, this is where we align our data sources’ understanding of time, and our understanding of time. In this post, we will discuss how to set these time...

The PerformancePoint team receives a lot of questions about how to deploy (or activate) the product now that it lives within the confines of SharePoint. This is definitely a valid question because the “up and running” process is quite different compared...

PerformancePoint Services for SharePoint 2010 introduces the decomposition tree, an interactive arrangement of bar charts that makes it easy to explore contribution relationships. It provides an effective alternative to the “Drill Down To”...

One thing that I think is so powerful about PerformancePoint Services for SharePoint 2010 you might not find on the feature card. You might catch a reference to it in a demo or read it in a an article and not even notice it. The feature in question is...

Now that SharePoint 2010 is on the horizon, there have been a lot of questions about what the differences are between PerformancePoint Server 2007 and PerformancePoint Services 2010. While most of the feature upgrades surround architectural changes, several...

The poster, Getting started with business intelligence in SharePoint Server 2010 , is a review of all the business intelligence (BI) services in SharePoint Server 2010 (Beta) and can be downloaded in Visio , PDF , and XPS file formats. You will notice...

Many times, the metrics that make up your key performance indicators are not simple values from a data source. In PerformancePoint Server 2007 you could create two kinds of KPI metrics: Simple single value metrics from any supported data source or Complex...

Welcome to the world of Time Intelligence for Microsoft Performance Point Services! Dynamically analyzing your data with respect to time has never been easier. From dissecting historic performance, to calculating Year over Year metrics, to analyzing Year...

The PerformancePoint Blog’s design refresh is not a coincidence. A lot has been going on with PerformancePoint as we gear up to release Office 2010, specifically SharePoint 2010. Before we go into what is exciting about PerformancePoint Services for SharePoint...

If this morning’s Dashboards as Easy as 1,2,3 is any indication, Business Intelligence and specifically PerformancePoint Services is high on the radar at the SharePoint Conference. After a quick poll, the audience indicated that very few of the over 1...