Life cycle of a Planning Server application -a gold nugget
The online documentation for PerformancePoint Planning and Monitoring (includes Analytics) is good. If you disagree, click on Contact Us and give us some feedback. There are some topics that I consider golden nuggets. In this post I want to summarize one of those great topics; Life cycle of a Planning Server application.
Companies that will incorporate PPS Planning are taking a larger project than incorporating Monitoring largely because there is a great deal of organizing that happens at the technical, business, organizational, and executive levels. This topic covers the technical side by the complete life cycle of the implementation of Planning Server which includes a Proof-of-Concept (POC) phase, design phase, Testing phase, Pre-production phase, and Production phase.
For each phase, a topology recommendation is given. By the way, there are other tools that help in the other areas such as a questionnaire used as a roadmap for organizing models, business rules, and other items in PPS Planning (maybe I will explain in another blog).
Here is a useful diagram that shows the Design phase migrated to the pre-production phase.
The following are steps provided which explain the diagram above. Be sure to read here to get the details.
Step 1: Install and Configure
Step 2: Planning Server configuration
Step 3: Content Design
Step 4: ETL Process
Step 5: Business Process Design
Step 6: Deploy the Model Site
Step 7: Testing
There is also a migration overview and summarized steps. Like I said, this is a great article and worth reading. Enjoy !
