PerformancePoint Services

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...

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...

Eric Friedrichsen ( ericfr@microsoft.com ) Microsoft Corporation November 2007 Required: Microsoft Office PerformancePoint Server 2007 Microsoft Office Excel 2007 Microsoft Office PowerPoint 2007 Summary: You can use Microsoft Office PerformancePoint...

You may notice that when you add dimension data from a cube into a scorecard, that the scorecard does not keep the cube's hierarchy (doesn't allow you to drill down) by default. At this time, you have to add the hierarchy information manually to the scorecard...

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...

SDK TechEd Download Package TechEdContent At TechEd, there were 2 sessions presented on the PerformancePoint Monitoring Server SDK. The first session, Navigating the Microsoft Office PerformancePoint Server 2007 SDK, discussed what you can do with the...

When setting up conditionally displayed report views the question often arises -"How do I set up a default view to be shown when no KPIs are selected?" This is the case when the scorecard first loads, a view will not be conditionally shown until a user...

The PerformancePoint Planning & Architecture Guide is now complete and live! Updates have also been make to the Deployment Guide and are now reflected out on TechNet. The next refresh of the documentation will be in November. http://technet.microsoft...

If you want to add a constant line to an Analytic chart, such as a "Target" line, you can do it by adding a calculated measure to the query as described below: 1. Create your view as you normally would using the Dashboard Designer 2. Switch to the â€...

For the final release of PerformancePoint Server 2007, a PAS Report View will be available that will enable you to browse a PAS repository and select a view for inclusion in your PerformancePoint Dashboard. However, this functionality has not been added...

Saw an interesting use case for tabular filters and having them control OLAP views, thought I would share the use case and let you expand on the possibilities. In this instance, a tabular filter was created that was really a selection of how the users...

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...

Download: Monitoring Server Connectivity Document Monitoring Server is part of Microsoft ® Office PerformancePoint TM Server 2007. This white paper is for PerformancePoint Server administrators and IT professionals who want guidance about how Monitoring...

Eric Friedrichsen ( ericfr@microsoft.com ) Microsoft Corporation November 2007 Required: Microsoft Office PerformancePoint Server 2007 Dashboards Summary: While you're developing software that integrates with PerformancePoint Server 2007 Dashboards, you...

There are two primary steps to a Migration in V1, with many tedious "sub-steps". The First step in the process is to Migrate the Application, this part of the process migrates: Security roles Structural metadata: all model site, model, dimension, and...

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...

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...

It frequently comes up that you may want to show a date in your scorecard, either as an actual value, a target value or just as an extra piece of information such as when was this KPI last updated in the source. One way that you can display dates in your...

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...

There are 3 model properties that deal with executing a consolidation for a Financial Model without Shares. Let’s see what they are and how they are used. Suppose we have the following entity hierarchy North America US Canada Mexico ...

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. ...

It can be difficut to navigate all of the information available for PerformancePoint Server. One of our UA writers, Jeff Carr, recognized this and has put together a great compilation of PerformancePoint Server sites. It can be found here: http://blogs...

I have been asked several times recently on how to adjust the font size on analytic charts and grids. Within the dashboard designer you have this ability although it is not always exposed automatically when editing/creating charts and grids. When first...

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...

Now available is a white paper outlining the technologies and steps required to publish PerformancePoint Monitoring Server dashboards in an Extranet. You can download this white paper from: http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=151630