PerformancePoint Services

New Features in PerformancePoint Services 2010

2009-11-05T21:03:57Z

Now that SharePoint 2010 is on the horizon, there have been a lot of questions about what the differences are between PerformancePoint Server 2007 and PerformancePoint Services 2010. While most of the feature upgrades surround architectural changes, several changes have been made to enhance the user experience. Below are some of the upgrades that you will see in 2010. Enterprise Deployment Scenarios The following list highlights the greater attention to enterprise scalability of PerformancePoint...(read more)

New Business Intelligence Services in SharePoint Server 2010

2009-10-30T15:26:28Z

The poster, Getting started with business intelligence in SharePoint Server 2010 , is a review of all the business intelligence (BI) services in SharePoint Server 2010 (Beta) and can be downloaded in Visio , PDF , and XPS file formats. You will notice that PerformancePoint Server 2007 is integrated into SharePoint Server 2010 (Beta), to add business intelligence features such as dashboards, scorecards, KPIs, and more. The poster includes the following information. An overview of each...(read more)

Creating Complex KPIs with Calculated Metrics

2009-10-30T15:10:06Z

Many times, the metrics that make up your key performance indicators are not simple values from a data source. In PerformancePoint Server 2007 you could create two kinds of KPI metrics: Simple single value metrics from any supported data source or Complex multiple value metrics from a single Analysis Services data source using MDX. When a user needed a calculation as simple as ‘Sales per Square Foot,’ both the sales value and the square footage values had to be available in an Analysis Services cube,...(read more)

Introduction to Time Intelligence

2009-10-29T18:16:14Z

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 to Date performance, Time intelligence puts time dependent data analysis at your fingertips. Flexible Formulas Specify almost any time period desired with a rich syntax and flexible formula language. Powerful “To Date” functions enable users to observe...(read more)

What is PerformancePoint Services for SharePoint 2010?

2009-10-20T18:26:20Z

The PerformancePoint Blog’s design refresh is not a coincidence. A lot has been going on with PerformancePoint as we gear up to release Office 2010, specifically SharePoint 2010. Before we go into what is exciting about PerformancePoint Services for SharePoint 2010, let’s level set by taking a quick tour of what PerformancePoint is and why it’s important to you. In Definition The definition would be that it enables you to create rich, context-driven dashboards that aggregate data and content to provide...(read more)

Business Intelligence is HOT at SharePoint Conference 2009

2009-10-20T18:15:42Z

If this morning’s Dashboards as Easy as 1,2,3 is any indication, Business Intelligence and specifically PerformancePoint Services is high on the radar at the SharePoint Conference. After a quick poll, the audience indicated that very few of the over 1,000 in attendance were using PerformancePoint Server 2007. That means we had a huge crowd of new users interested in getting to know PerformancePoint Services. After I went through a quick usage and build scenario, Wade Dorrell walked through a deeper...(read more)

Welcome To SharePoint Conference 2009!

2009-10-19T18:59:00Z

That's a wrap, the keynote is in the books. Hopefully you were in attendance and enjoyed Steve Ballmer and Jeff Teper's remarks as well as the special guests and demos. If you weren't able to attend in person, it should be available on the conference site very soon to stream. There were quite a few things to take away from today's keynote, some highlights are: PowerPivot, the official name of project Gemini is out of the bag. Today's keynote showed instant sorting and filtering of more than 100 million...(read more)

PerformancePoint Services at the October SharePoint Conference in Vegas!

2009-10-15T20:06:18Z

Hopefully you have already registered for the SharePoint Conference in Las Vegas this month. In addition to a keynote by Steve Ballmer himself and tons of great SharePoint sessions, PerformancePoint Services will be there to show off what we have to add to the SharePoint Business Intelligence story. What to Look For We have several sessions scheduled from introducing dashboards and PerformancePoint services, to building advanced dashboards, security and infrastructure. There is something for everyone....(read more)

Microsoft Office PerformancePoint Server 2007 Service Pack 3 is released!

2009-10-15T20:05:55Z

Microsoft Office PerformancePoint Server 2007 Service Pack 3 hits RTM on schedule and is available for download from the Microsoft Download Center. · Download sites: PerformancePoint Server 2007 SP3 (x86) , PerformancePoint Server 2007 SP3 (x64) · Documentation: Service Pack 3 for Microsoft Office PerformancePoint Server 2007 , IW documentation is being published. What’s New in SP3 Focused on the supportability of PerformancePoint Server 2007, Service Pack 3 offers not only a wide range of...(read more)

Publishing PerformancePoint Server in an Extranet - White Paper Now Available

2009-05-15T22:21:05Z

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...(read more)

PPS Planning - How to display and launch assignments from SharePoint

2009-03-24T19:24:00Z

SharePoint has rapidly become the preferred platform for team collaboration in the enterprise. It provides a central place for information, tasks, documents and much more of the business related content that users need to access every day. One of the common requests we hear from customers is that they want to display PerformancePoint Planning assignments in SharePoint and allow users to launch the assignments from there. Assignments can be accessed via the Excel Add-in and email notification can...(read more)

Creating PPS KPIs based on SSAS KPIs

2009-01-26T16:59:09Z

There are two ways to create KPIs in PerformancePoint Server based on SSAS KPIs. The first is to use the Scorecard wizard to import those KPIs into PPS. This will create a new scorecard containing only those imported KPIs. I wrote a post on this some time ago. If you want to add SSAS KPIs to your existing scorecards however, you can also create individual PPS KPIs based off of SSAS KPIs through the dashboard designer as well. It does require using some MDX expressions to create those KPIs. First,...(read more)

PPS Planning - How to run a Currency Translation Job

2009-01-13T03:40:00Z

PPS Planning allows the user to create a Currency Translation Job in order to facilitate a model's data to be converted to any currency. In order to accomplish this there are certain criteria that a model must adhere to. The model must be a Financial type of model. Either a Financial Model with Shares or a Financial Model without Shares You need to add the Currency dimension to the model The Exchange Rate Model must be linked in as an assumption model The Time granularity of the Exchange Rate model...(read more)

Dashboard Basics Courses Now Available

2009-01-12T21:17:46Z

There are two dashboard basics courses now available online at Office Online for your users: PerformancePoint Monitoring and Analytics: Dashboard basics I PerformancePoint Monitoring and Analytics: Dashboard basics II Please enter any feedback you have on these courses as well as any additional topics you might like to see in the future, via the Feedback link...(read more)

PPS Planning - Management Reporting Consolidation Model Properties Explained

2009-01-09T00:59:00Z

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 The first model property we will talk about is called Management Consol Elim . If this model property is set to TRUE then any intercompany transactions between US, Canada and Mexico will be eliminated and written to the Elimination Business Process Member of the parent...(read more)