PerformancePoint Insider

My good friend Bruno did the demostration of a nice looking business intelligence application.  Some PPS, Live Maps, Dundas and Excel Services.   I like the branding of the portal and the live maps.  Pretty nice.

Well, with the financial markets melting down around the world, Microsoft kicked off its business intelligence conference.  These are not the best pictures, but I could use my camera phone to capture some pictures.  The below picture is from the keynote kickoff of the event.

http://blog.seattletimes.nwsource.com/techtracks/2008/10/03/next_week_microsoft_business_intelligence_conferen.html The Seattle Times has an article about DATAllegro coming out at the Microsoft Business Intelligence conference. I look forward to checking out the keynote and finding out more about the solution offering.   I'll try and ...

Just a couple days away from the Business Intelligence conference.   I'm hoping they preview or show some direction for the Office 14 product which includes PerformancePoint.   I'll try and post some ''Things you should know'' when I'm at the conference.  http://www.msbiconference.com/Pages/default.aspx

We had a need on how to add a second axis on an Analytic Chart and I found the following link.   Very helpful...  http://blogs.msdn.com/performancepoint/archive/2008/02/12/creating-a-second-y-axis-on-an-analytic-chart.aspx

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.  While one solution would be to ...

 Example of Issue:  Exec Owner, and Update Frequency both custom KPI Properties repeat illustrating an instance for both time members FY08 and FY09. The desired effect is to show the YTD Target and Actual repeat for FY08 and FY09 but render the Properties just once.   Steve Handy, a member of the PPS Product Team shared the ...

If you want your credentials to pass throughout all your servers for PPS to work correctly, you really need to enable Kerbero's.  I found a couple great articles that explain this and the process to do it.  ...

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 the documentation for the product ...

From the PerformancePoint Server 2007 Planning Readme file.  You can download it here. http://office.microsoft.com/download/afile.aspx?AssetID=AM102778581033   PerformancePoint Planning Readme Effective date: June 4, 2008. Introduction This file contains important information that was not available when the documentation for the ...