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We developed a PushBI solution to track the business intelligence sessions and ratings at TechED 2009 next week. Download and give it a tour next week when the session speakers scores start coming in. http://www.PUSHBI.com/TechED.aspx
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You know, Alyson just rocks, but I wish I knew of this last summer.... "It frequently comes up that you may want to show a date in your scorecard, either as an actual value, a target value or just as an extra piece of information such as when was this KPI last updated in the source. One way that you...
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It has been a REALLY busy year at Extended Results our consulting company. We have had some tremendous growth in regards to customers and employees along with generating some new and interesting intellectual property. I have been using QuickBooks for years for my different companies and I found it to...
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Had a question come up about how to use a SharePoint document library within PPS. Use the following steps to create it. Open SharePoint Designer and open your SPS site Create an ASP.NET page Drag and drop your document library onto the page Attach the SPS stylesheet so it looks pretty Save it to the...
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When using PPS M&A Treeview Filters on a scorecard, it has a default maximum values of about 200 members and then it doesn't show anymore. You can increase the number of members by adding the following tag in the SharePoint web.config file. < add key = " Bpm.TreeViewControlMaxNumRecordsToRender...
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While Performance Point offers a wide array of "Out of the box" filter solutions, one of the holes that we found was the inability to perform a user input search. While working on a project, we encountered a situation where the members we wanted to list blew way past the upper limit of the PPS filters...
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From the PerformancePoint Server 2007 SP1 Monitoring readme which you can download here http://office.microsoft.com/download/afile.aspx?AssetID=AM102778591033 PerformancePoint Monitoring Readme Effective Date: June 6, 2008 Introduction This file contains important information that was not available when...
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PerformancePoint Monitoring Server SP1 includes the following enhancements: · Support for Microsoft Windows Server 2008 · Add a default display condition report view (see related blog post) · Multi-select Monitoring server filters passing to multi-select SQL Server Reporting Services report parameters...
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I got this from an internal document on how to install PPS on the same machine that has Active Directory installed. Domain Controllers While it's not a hard-and-fast rule, most AD administrators will tell you that a domain controller should not run other applications. Since your domain controllers are...
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I saw this question on an internal Microsoft alias, so I answered it and several people like the answer so I figured I should blog it... Question : What are the possibilities for combining Dashboard elements (KPIs, scorecards, filters and reports) with SharePoint elements (e.g. as shown below: list of...
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Found this article on PerformancePoint Monitoring and Analytics performance tuning. http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb660539.aspx
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One of my consultants passed this link onto me with PPS M&A live on the web against web logs. Pretty neat, check it out. http://richardlees.com.au/sites/Demonstrations/Documents/Web%20Dashboard%20-%20close%20to%20real%20time%20analytics%20of%20this%20internet%20site/Internet%20Activity%20Today.aspx
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The PerformancePoint Server 2007 exam link has just gone live: http://www.microsoft.com/learning/exams/70-556.mspx Prep for the exam with self-directed learning courses, which have been designed to give you a quick start on building your performance management solution. Click here to get started. The...
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This is from my BI Manager Kristi Taylor We recently began the process of migrating a PPS Application from our development environment into test and into production. We utilized the Planning Server Data Migration Wizard to help us accomplish this task. Although this wizard saved us a lot of time we still...
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PPS M&A requires AJAX v1.0 installed. Well, recently Microsoft released the .NET Framework 3.5 which includes the AJAX. Well, on a couple of my server rebuilds using .NET Framework 3.5, SharePoint runs just fine. But, when I install PPS M&A, it crashes the SharePoint page on startup. When I uninstalled...
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You know, there used to be a neat feature in BSM2005 that when you clicked on a KPI you could redirect to a URL. Well, that feature didn't make it over to PPS 2007. BUT, do not fret, there is a work around. I found the following article on the PPS Team blog site. Not a perfect solution, but it works...
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So, if you where like me and hit F1 for help when trying to figure out the time intelligence expressions and couldn't find any meaningful factoids, please use the following link. It is a very powerful feature if you know the sytax. Thanks for the pointer Steve... http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/help...
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Today we have another blog entry by Kristi Taylor who does a lot of PPS M&A and Planning projects for us. Here is an example I built for allowing users the option to select alternative views of charts and reports designed specifically for each KPI: Here are the steps to follow: 1. Right click on...
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This white paper is for Microsoft Office PerformancePoint Server 2007 administrators and IT professionals who want guidance about Monitoring Server performance capabilities. This guidance includes how performance is affected by security settings, number of users, scalability, and load capacity, among...
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I finally found the topology diagram for Monitoring and Analytics.