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Microsoft Office PerformancePoint Server 2007 Service Pack 3 is now available

SteveH — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 19:14:00 GMT

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):...(read more)

Use Virtual Earth with PerformancePoint Server to combine and analyze information

JoanneH — Fri, 15 May 2009 01:31:00 GMT

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...(read more)

Download PerformancePoint documentation from TechNet

JoanneH — Fri, 15 May 2009 01:01:00 GMT

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...(read more)

Planning Administration Console and Web.config

SteveH — Wed, 15 Apr 2009 23:53:00 GMT

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...(read more)

BI to the Masses = Reduced TCO + Enhanced Capabilities

SteveH — Fri, 27 Feb 2009 20:34:00 GMT

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...(read more)

PerformancePoint Server Installation – Roles and Permissions

SteveH — Fri, 20 Feb 2009 20:19:00 GMT

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...(read more)

Best practices for migrating Planning Server data

SteveH — Fri, 13 Feb 2009 20:01:00 GMT

The importance of including test, development, and production environments in your PerformancePoint Planning Server operation cannot be overstated. This system allows you to build in the development environment, test your changes in the test environment,...(read more)

Take advantage of Project Server 2007 with PerformancePoint Server 2007 Monitoring and Analytics

SteveH — Tue, 03 Feb 2009 21:01:00 GMT

“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...(read more)

Configuring Kerberos Security with PerformancePoint Monitoring Server 2007

halzucati — Tue, 27 Jan 2009 01:00:00 GMT

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...(read more)