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...

In my blog post about SP1 features for PerformancePoint , I mentioned some new capabilities around the PerformancePoint (PPS) database side of things. For instance, you can now assign a failover server for the PPS database, assign a custom database name...

In the recent blog post What's New in PerformancePoint Services and SP1? , Kevin provides a table highlighting the major new features and improvements coming to PerformancePoint Services. A seemingly small but exciting new feature in in that table is...

I know that a lot of people have been anxiously waiting for some meaningful information about what’s coming in Service Pack 1 (SP1) for PPS. The release is scheduled for the end of June, and as Jason mentioned at the end of his kickoff blog , I’m releasing...

It’s been a super hectic month for the Office BI team this May. We are hard at work figuring out what’s next for the Office BI products, we had TechEd in Atlanta, and we put the finishing touches on Office 2010 Service Pack 1 with some special surprises...

PerformancePoint Dashboards have a set of filters that allow both PerformancePoint content and other content to connect and interact with each other. I wanted to talk a little bit more about the Time Intelligence Filter and how you can use this to get...