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...

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...

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...

It's important to know that the BI capabilities outlined in the topic PerformancePoint Server and other BI products , are not going away and in fact will be even more accessible in Office SharePoint Server. Microsoft has several business intelligence...

Many large and mid-size organizations have IT teams that install and maintain the network servers. Typically, administrator privileges are reserved for members of the IT team and are not granted to end users. Consequently, if a member of say, the Finance...

In my last post, What is the Balanced Scorecard method? , I briefly describe Kaplan and Norton's Balanced Scorecard method and some examples using our software. Recently I read in a college class book, Cost Management: A Strategic Emphasis , about best...

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...

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. 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...

The new Business Intelligence Resource Center for SharePoint Server 2010 is a TechNet site for information about business intelligence in SharePoint Server 2010. The following is some of what is is included in the TechNet resource center. IT professionals...

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...

“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...

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...

Sometimes we like to see a picture or diagram to help plan and even simplify deployment tasks. Here are some visual steps for installing PerformancePoint Monitoring Server prerequisites and Service Pack 2. The image does not replace our documentation...

Microsoft released PerformancePoint Service Pack 3 on November 15, 2009. You can read more about PerformancePoint Server 2007 Service Pack 3 here on Microsoft Office Online. Go to the Microsoft download site to get Service Pack 3: · 64-bit version...

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...

Check out the download center for a great package that facilitates data import for PerformancePoint Planning. It includes step by step directions on the recommended data import package steps in a typical PerformancePoint Planning Server application, a...

Check out this video that demonstrates how combining Microsoft Virtual Earth with PerformancePoint Server 2007 can achieve a truly integrated scorecard. This video demonstrates how a public health department can improve its capacity to analyze data from...

Find it here: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=a6364ca9-5a95-44b8-9b87-1bb24ef07760&displaylang=en What is it? It's a straight forward guide to installing and using PerformancePoint Planning and Monitoring Servers...

What does Microsoft’s recent announcement of its desire to bring “BI to the masses” mean to your organization? Our BI offering will now include Office SharePoint Server and several new services. PerformancePoint Services is perhaps the largest offering...

Deploying PerformancePoint as a service within Office SharePoint Server is an idea that may not be understood by all customers. In its initial announcement for PerformancePoint Services for SharePoint Microsoft explained the philosophy of its strategy...

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...

Effective today, BI the Way…SharePoint Business Intelligence blog is officially being retired. To better serve the needs of our SharePoint users and to consolidate postings from the SharePoint writing team, you can now find all future posts on PerformancePoint...

PerformancePoint Server 2007 is integrated into SharePoint Server 2010 (Beta), to add business intelligence features such as dashboards, scorecards, KPIs, and more. The poster, " Getting started with business intelligence in SharePoint Server 2010 " is...

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...