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The new Business Intelligence Resource Center for SharePoint Server 2010

2009-11-05T16:18:55Z

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 Excel Services overview What's new for Excel Services What's new for PerformancePoint Services Visio Services overview Developers What's new: Excel Services (MSDN) Creating custom solutions with Excel Services (MSDN) What's new: PerformancePoint...(read more)

Microsoft Office PerformancePoint Server 2007 Service Pack 3 is now available

2009-10-28T19:14:00Z

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 (x64): http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=3ad75ae5-d2cd-4953-87cf-5f74d79804c6&displaylang=en · 32-bit version (x86): http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=90C596A5-ACA4-4DED-9072-FACF834BC0C6&displaylang=en...(read more)

New business intelligence services in SharePoint Server 2010

2009-10-24T17:56:58Z

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 a review of all the business intelligence (BI) services in SharePoint Server 2010 (Beta) and includes the following information. The poster can be downloaded in Visio , PDF , and XPS file formats. An overview of each business intelligence service and...(read more)

Published: Office PerformancePoint Server 2007 end-to-end walkthrough

2009-05-26T21:14:00Z

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. It lists a number of easy to follow procedures along with links to the next steps in the process after the servers are installed and configured. This is not designed to replace our existing PerformancePoint Server documentation found here: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb794633.aspx...(read more)

PerformancePoint Monitoring Server, Service Pack 2 diagram -prerelease article

2009-05-15T20:01:31Z

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 and covers only one scenario. It is an experiment to see if the diagram is useful for seeing the process and keeping steps in order. Please tell me if this helps you see what must happen to install PerformancePoint Monitoring Server and Service Pack...(read more)

Use Virtual Earth with PerformancePoint Server to combine and analyze information

2009-05-15T01:31:00Z

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 seemingly unrelated data sources and quickly identify county health issues by pairing the geo-spatial capabilities with the reporting and BI capabilities of PerformancePoint Server. http://www.microsoft.com/Industry/government/solutions/virtual_earth/demo/ps_gbi.htm...(read more)

Download PerformancePoint documentation from TechNet

2009-05-15T01:01:00Z

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 of selected content in the PerformancePoint Server 2007 technical library . We have just updated the PerformancePoint Downloadable Content on TechNet to reflect not only new and updated content that has been added since the initial release, but also...(read more)

Report Building with Excel Services

2009-04-30T02:00:00Z

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 of a dashboard. Excel Services reports function very much like Excel workbooks and can appear similarly when you view them, whether you view an Excel workbook on your computer or in a SharePoint document library. Excel Services reports can include a...(read more)

Watch this! PerformancePoint and Pervasive BI with Analytic Vision video

2009-04-17T23:43:00Z

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 space where SharePoint Enterprise is used. Pricing is the another reason. Previously the product cost roughly $200 per CAL (client access license). Even at that high price tag, far higher than the cost of SharePoint Enterprise, it was still...(read more)

Planning Administration Console and Web.config

2009-04-15T23:53:00Z

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 of settings that are not accessible via the Administration Console. In some cases the only way for an admin to access these settings is via the Web.config file. By default the Web.config file is installed on the PerformancePoint Planning Server...(read more)

Starter Kit for PerformancePoint Planning Server SQL Server Integration Services (SSIS)

2009-04-03T19:01:00Z

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 starter Visual Studio 2005 Business Intelligence Development Studio (BIDS) 2005 solution, plus a SQL Server Integration Services (SSIS) project with two files which can be used as the starting point for Dimension and Fact data load packages. In this...(read more)

Microsoft BI 50,000 feet view diagram

2009-03-31T09:12:36Z

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 tools and the type of problem you are trying to solve will help determine the right tool for you. Objects and symbols We work in a world of objects, shapes, and symbols and we don't know a lot without these. The marks we put onto paper to write something...(read more)

Seeking Answers? PerformancePoint Services Concerns and Feedback

2009-03-14T00:05:00Z

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, citing challenging economic conditions, the need to cut costs, and thus the drive to support many additional services and technologies. The biggest and best understood advantage of reinventing PerformancePoint Server as a SharePoint service is the...(read more)

BI to the Masses = Reduced TCO + Enhanced Capabilities

2009-02-27T20:34:00Z

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 and Excel Services, Access Services and Visio Services add power and abilities to the new SharePoint Server BI offerings. A hidden but significant advantage is the multiple services offered with Office SharePoint Server will reduce the total cost of...(read more)

PerformancePoint Server Installation – Roles and Permissions

2009-02-20T20:19:00Z

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 team needed to install PerformancePoint Server, the lack of Admin privileges would prevent them from accomplishing this. Other Microsoft IT products require explicit and sometimes special Administrator accounts to permit installation. For instance...(read more)