PerformancePoint Services

In SharePoint 2013, PerformancePoint Services added an assembly redirect so that you can use the latest versions of the ADOMD.NET data provider to accomplish scenarios, such as using PowerPivot 2012 workbooks as a data source. We also show you where to get the spPowerPivot.msi, which contains the provider and other SharePoint BI features.

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SharePoint 2013 has added some beautiful, new themes to their "Change the Look" functionality within Site Settings. And now, the PerformancePoint Services team has added functionality that will pick up those themes and manifest them in published dashboards. This allows enterprises to use SharePoint's out-of-the-box themes, or to create corporate-specific master pages, and know that the specific themes that they create will look beautiful across their grids and scorecards in PerformancePoint.

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Greetings, everyone. It has certainly been a big few weeks for us here on the Office team. The Office Next blog was released, and it's overflowing with great information. Plus, information about the integration throughout Office BI, and how people experience...

This blog is long overdue, and it is something that support has encountered from customers for some time. If you have tried to configure PerformancePoint Services to work in an HTTPS enabled site, you will probably have run into several error messages...

This post doesn’t so much describe how to do something as why you shouldn’t worry about something you may see. It can be unnerving to make a change in a SharePoint object, then not see the change when you check for it. Here is a case where...

Time intelligence (TI) is one of the great features of PerformancePoint, but it has always taken users time to understand and implement. And we have received more than a few discussion list posts and customer inquiries when things don't add up -- literally...

Just in case you didn’t already know, a cumulative update for SharePoint Server 2010 was released in mid-December, and it’s a big deal for business intelligence. Cumulative Update 2011-12 (CU 2011-12) for Microsoft SharePoint Server 2010...

Since SQL Server Denali hit the public download space, several people have tried using it to create PowerPivot models as data sources for PerformancePoint 2010 . And why shouldn't they? PerformancePoint works just fine in the scenario where you specify...

Sometimes it's difficult to find the latest updates for SharePoint 2010 and for PerformancePoint Services, specifically. The easiest way to see these latest updates is to visit the Microsoft Office Update Center or subscribe to the Updates for Microsoft...

When you connect Slicers to Pivot Tables or Pivot Charts, their effect on the data is obvious: changing your Slicer selection causes data values to change and in some cases, rows to disappear. However, rather than excluding rows with a Slicer, sometimes...

The Office Business Intelligence group gets the occasional question about why we offer several different BI solutions when our competitors often only offer one. Microsoft offers its customers no shortage of choices when it comes to BI solutions. We do...

Poll Your Friends with Photo Vote In this post, we'll introduce you to Photo Vote, a new app created by the Office Business Intelligence team in partnership with the Microsoft Office Labs team. With Photo Vote, you can create quick polls in Facebook...

Windows Azure Marketplace is a great place to find publicly available data for use in your BI solutions. In this post, I'm going to show how convenient it is to use Windows Azure Marketplace to get public data into your PPS dashboards. You will need...

Introduction The Excel Services Data Source in PerformancePoint 2010 allows you to create data using familiar Excel tools and methods that you can then surface in PerformancePoint scorecards. To demonstrate the use of the Excel Services Data Source...

PerformancePoint Services 2010 (PPS) provides a variety of ways to use data in analytic solutions. The usage of Analysis Services cubes and SharePoint lists in PerformancePoint is relatively well understood. Upcoming posts from the Office BI team will...

In this post we're going to walk through how our favorite fictional company Litware uses PerformancePoint Services with SharePoint list data to do simple "under budget" KPIs. In Litware's party planning committee we log how much we spend on...

All the items you create when you build BI solutions using PerformancePoint are stored in SharePoint. PerformancePoint data sources are stored in specialized SharePoint document libraries. PerformancePoint content is stored in specialized SharePoint lists;...

As part of the Office Content Publishing group at Microsoft, our team writes Help content about business intelligence capabilities in SharePoint Server. In this blog, we'll look at how you can reuse and share your business intelligence content in team...

PerformancePoint Services in Microsoft SharePoint Server 2010 (PPS)  makes it easy and convenient to organize and share your business insights. Upcoming blog posts by Office BI pros will delve into the following topics: Efficiently organize PPS content...

The SQL Server team has made a small change to the location of the web service that PPS calls in order to render SQL Server Reporting Services reports when running in SharePoint Integrated mode.  In this blog post, I’m going to go over how to work...

Two samples that work with PerformancePoint analytic reports are now available on MSDN. · PerformancePoin​t Services 2010: Change Analytic Report Data Source Sample lets users change the data source that an analytic report points to. · PerformancePoint...

One long-awaited and much-requested feature for PerformancePoint, Cascading Filters, is available in SharePoint Server 2010 SP1. I wanted to go through the deployment of a dashboard using Cascading Filters to show both the ease and a little of the power...

Today's "better together" post is by Poornima Hanumara, a program manager on the Office BI team. Thank you Poornima, and to our readers, have a great week! I want to quickly prototype a new dashboard to keep track of the products in my sporting goods...

Today’s post is by Denise Stendera, a writer on the SharePoint business intelligence team. Thanks Denise! Got Project? When you create a Project Web App in SharePoint Server, you automatically get a Business Intelligence Center. If PerformancePoint...

This month on the PerformancePoint Services blog we'll focus on techniques involving other Microsoft products. For example, Got Project? When you create a Project Web App in SharePoint Server, you automatically get a Business Intelligence Center...