PerformancePoint Services

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...

What is PerformancePoint? PerformancePoint Services has one major mission in life: to enable you to create rich, context-driven dashboards that aggregate data and content to provide a complete view of how your business is performing at all levels. If...

This year's TechEd is huge for the Data and Business Intelligence team. We have have a lot of people on the ground and an agenda packed with sessions, demos and hands on labs to help you learn everything you need to know. I'll be blogging as much as I...

It’s been quite a while since the PerformancePoint Blog has been updated. We’ve taken a look at what we’ve done with the blog so far, and what we’d like to do going forward. Starting with this month, May 2011, you will be able to expect a new, stronger...

You can create and deploy PerformancePoint dashboards remotely by using several assemblies that are installed with Dashboard Designer. The code example in this article shows how to create a report object and a dashboard object, deploy (publish) a dashboard...

Time Intelligence (TI) Filters in PerformancePoint Services for SharePoint provides filtering on data-time values with respect to the current date-time. The limitation, however, is that the formulae need to be defined before the dashboard is published...

Because calling web services remotely is not an officially supported scenario for PerformancePoint Services development, there's no related information in the SDK. The SDK uses the BIMonitoringServiceApplicationProxy and SPDataStore objects to perform...

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>...