I just read an article called Best Practices for Data Warehousing with SQL Server 2008 that is worth your reading. The article covers some of the most important data warehousing features in SQL Server 2008 and outlines best practices for using them effectively...

The Balanced Scorecard method of Kaplan and Norton is a strategic approach and performance management system that organizations use to translate vision and strategy into practice, working from four critical success factors: Critical success factors Examples...

I am fortunate to have colleagues that are contributing to my Blog. Time doesn't allow us to know all areas of our products. Denise Benjamin, one our technical writers for the PPS information worker content, has given me some content on creating filters...

One of the most useful features of Excel Services is report building. Reports can include business intelligence data or any type of data you are working with in Excel Services. Generating and publishing Excel Services reports is one of the basic parts...

Hal here, Just wanted to let everyone know that the PerformancePoint UA team now has a face! Well, we've always had a face, or rather faces but now you can see them! Find our team picture on our ABOUT page here: http://blogs.technet.com/ppsdocteam...

As you know, we make available some of the content from the PerformancePoint Server 2007 technical library (published on http://www.TechNet.com )in a downloadable and printable form as Microsoft Office Word files. The content in these books is a copy...

Hello, this is Norm. Over the next few weeks, I will post some of the more frequented and important posts to this, our new team Blog. This post helps us document what you need and want for PerformancePoint Server. Ralph Kimball , in his book The Data...

Hello, this is Norm. I have been tinkering with Hyper-V, which I loaded onto a Dell Optiplex 745 machine. See below the workarounds I had to incorporate to make it Hyper-V ready. While researching storage options, I found two helpful blog posts. Storage...

My name is Steve Hord and I will be contributing to the B.I. the way... PerformancePoint Server documentation team blog for the next few months. I am a writer on the Duet User Assistance (UA) team, and since Duet 1.5 General Availability will release...

Hal here with a quick update. PerformancePoint Server SP2 is LIVE!. The PerformancePoint Server Service Pack 2 (SP2) update has just released and is ready for download and installation. Find it here: 32bit - http://www.microsoft.com/downloads...

IT Pro writer, Hal, wrote a great post about PerformancePoint Server (PPS) Service Pack 2 here . I want to add that there is no better time than the present to communicate the potential cost savings that come from consolidating server hardware using Windows...

I just read Generating positive PR for the IT department and a couple of trends seem evident. · "A majority of IT executives polled worry most about IT and business alignment." IT and business: Separate but equal no more · IT needs to better communicate...

The Planning Server Administration Console provides a number of useful controls and settings that administrators can use to setup and maintain their organization’s applications, model sites, system settings and data connections. However there are a number...

Microsoft recently included its PerformancePoint in the licensing with SharePoint Enterprise for customers with MOSS Enterprise with Software Assurance (SA). Why is this huge? For one, it makes high end business intelligence available to the entire enterprise...

Because PerformancePoint Server is integrated with SQL Server and Office SharePoint Server (or WSS), I want to mention Dan Wesley's post regarding support and guidance for deploying Office SharePoint Server on Hyper-V in a TechNet article, Using SharePoint...

Hello, my name is Norm Warren. In January 2008, I started a Blog called Norm's PerformancePoint Server to share all things related to PerformancePoint Server with the IT professional in mind. Today I create this new Blog as a place for my team mates and...

The Planning Business Modeler topics are now "out of the box". These topics are organized by category rather than table of contents. The content is very good. In coming weeks, we will cross-reference between TechNet and Office Online so that customers...

Happy New Year! Whether it be for year-end review or on a regular basis, you may have the need to perform analysis on all submissions made in Planning Server. It's possible that many users are editing the same area or slice of data. Your analysis may...

I found the following deployment example topologies on a PowerPoint slide deck from one of our technical solution professionals. Monitoring and Analytics - 5 servers: 1) MOSS server with Web parts and dashboard viewer 2) PerformancePoint Server Monitoring...

I just read one of several articles available on the redesigned Microsoft Business Intelligence site that can help you as an IT Pro communicate the value of business intelligence tools. . Wait for the Silverlight splash screen on the site to display images...

I am re-posting this Blog. I wonder if companies will (or do) re-purpose or customize their BI software so that it includes the monitoring of risk, particularly operational risk. ---------------------------------- Related to the series of posts I have...

Microsoft PerformancePoint Server (PPS) Monitoring and Analytics (M&A) will soon officially become part of Microsoft Office SharePoint Server as a PerformancePoint service. Microsoft has identified Office SharePoint Server' powerful user base and...

Hal here with a quick update. We have received some feedback that configuring Kerberos security with PerformancePoint Monitoring Server can sometimes be difficult. My colleague and teammate Mike Plumley has created a 20- minute step-by-step video that...

On January 27, Microsoft revealed plans to change their business intelligence strategy. This change, announced by Kurt DelBene, senior vice president of the Office Business Platform Group, announced the intention to incorporate Microsoft Office PerformancePoint...

“How to Leverage Project Server 2007 with PPS 2007 Monitoring and Analytics,” is a new white paper just published by Microsoft that demonstrates how anyone running both Office Project Server 2007 and Office PerformancePoint Server 2007 can use the two...