PerformancePoint Services

Decomposition Tree: Contribution Analysis & Presentation

philoking — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 22:21:41 GMT

PerformancePoint Services for SharePoint 2010 introduces the decomposition tree, an interactive arrangement of bar charts that makes it easy to explore contribution relationships. It provides an effective alternative to the “Drill Down To” feature in...(read more)

Upgrading PerformancePoint Server 2007 to PerformancePoint 2010

philoking — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 21:38:13 GMT

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...(read more)

PerformancePoint Services and SharePoint Web Parts Play Well Together

philoking — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 17:22:52 GMT

One thing that I think is so powerful about PerformancePoint Services for SharePoint 2010 you might not find on the feature card. You might catch a reference to it in a demo or read it in a an article and not even notice it. The feature in question is...(read more)

New Features in PerformancePoint Services 2010

philoking — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 21:03:57 GMT

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...(read more)

New Business Intelligence Services in SharePoint Server 2010

philoking — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 15:26:28 GMT

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...(read more)

Creating Complex KPIs with Calculated Metrics

philoking — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 15:10:06 GMT

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...(read more)

Introduction to Time Intelligence

philoking — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 18:16:14 GMT

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...(read more)

What is PerformancePoint Services for SharePoint 2010?

philoking — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 18:26:20 GMT

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...(read more)

Business Intelligence is HOT at SharePoint Conference 2009

philoking — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 18:15:42 GMT

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...(read more)

Welcome To SharePoint Conference 2009!

philoking — Mon, 19 Oct 2009 18:59:00 GMT

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...(read more)

PerformancePoint Services at the October SharePoint Conference in Vegas!

philoking — Thu, 15 Oct 2009 20:06:18 GMT

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...(read more)

Microsoft Office PerformancePoint Server 2007 Service Pack 3 is released!

philoking — Thu, 15 Oct 2009 20:05:55 GMT

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: ...(read more)

Publishing PerformancePoint Server in an Extranet - White Paper Now Available

alysonp — Fri, 15 May 2009 22:21:05 GMT

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

pabar — Tue, 24 Mar 2009 19:24:00 GMT

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...(read more)

Creating PPS KPIs based on SSAS KPIs

alysonp — Mon, 26 Jan 2009 16:59:09 GMT

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...(read more)