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PerformancePoint Server OR SharePoint BI

August 1st, 2008 No comments

Norm from MS has a great post about what happens where in PPS and Sharepoint:

“Microsoft has several business intelligence (BI) tools that seemingly overlap in features. This can be confusing to those trying to determine what BI tools will be most beneficial to their company. Many software packages have added an element of business intelligence -tools that lend to better business decisions. The reason for the addition of BI tools extends to acquisitions Microsoft has made. An example is the acquisition of ProClarity, a powerful analytics application platform that is included in the PerformancePoint Server (PPS) license agreement.  Additionally, as BI has become more available with the increase of data warehouses technologies, improvements to ETL practices, and reporting, software packages (particularly accounting and Excel based) have been able to add elements of BI.

To resolve some confusion between Office SharePoint and PerformancePoint Server BI features, I have created a chart that shows how each tool can effectively monitor, analyze, plan (forecast), and report for the information you need to achieve corporate objectives. “

Read the rest at http://blogs.msdn.com/normbi/archive/2008/07/31/performancepoint-server-or-sharepoint-bi.aspx

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Performance Point Implementation Plan

July 23rd, 2008 No comments

This guide contains detailed information about how to plan a deployment of Microsoft Office PerformancePoint Server 2007.

The PerformancePoint Server Implementation Guide consists of 12 Microsoft Office documents (templates, projects, and worksheets) that can help you plan your implementation of PerformancePoint Server. Start with the Project Plan Framework presentation for a detailed introduction to the tasks involved in implementing PerformancePoint and for guidance on how to most effectively use the templates. Included in the guide are templates for configuration planning, training, requirements gathering, and a plan for a personalized operations and maintenance plan.

Downloadable implementation plans

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SharePoint Server 2007 Scalability and Performance whitepaper now available

June 18th, 2008 No comments
The SharePoint Server 2007 Scalability and Performance whitepaper. This 90+ page whitepaper documents the architectural design considerations and performance characteristics of a real-world, large-scale SharePoint lab implementation containing around 50 million content items, and reflects both “scale-up” and “scale-out” scenarios.
 
In adddition to the project that resulted in the Scalability and Performance whitepaper, the KnowledgeLake folks and the author were recently involved in another very challenging proof-of-concept for a large pharmaceutical company, which represented a large-scale SharePoint implementation containing 40 TB of content (about 75 million content items) spread across two SharePoint farms.
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What’s the ROI of Performance Management?

June 12th, 2008 No comments

What is up with all of this talk about dashboards, scorecards, planning and budgeting tools, data visualization, closed-loop performance management and what can it actually accomplish for your organization? What value are other organizations seeing from their investments in performance management technology, if any? A recent research report from BusinessWeek uncovers the mystery behind what organizations are actually realizing from these business driving solutions, some of the highlights include:

· Two thirds of the senior executive whose companies use performance management say it has a positive effect on shareholder value

· Organizations exercising world-class performance management practices enjoy a 2.4 times market returns of typical companies in their industry

· The broader the distribution of BI and performance management tools, the higher the potential return on the investment

· The biggest return on investment can come from extending performance management to front-line workers, like telemarketers and collections staff

So if you haven’t already, give your dashboard a hug, it certainly deserves it.

From the MS BI Blog.

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PerformancePoint Server Service Pack 1

June 5th, 2008 No comments
PerformancePoint Server Service Pack 1 provides a number of features and fixes. Here are the downloads.

  • PerformancePoint Server 2007 Service Pack 1:  (x86),  (x64)

The following is an overview of what has improved.

Monitoring

Windows Server 2008
Installation of PerformancePoint Server 2007 SP1 on Windows Server 2008 is now supported.

SQL Server 2008
Although not yet fully supported, SQL Server 2008 data sources can be used.

Scorecard key performance indicators (KPIs)
Expand and Collapse commands can be used on scorecards that have hidden parent KPIs.

KPIs
Multidimensional Expressions (MDX) statements are not limited to 1,000 characters when they are used in KPIs.

Dashboard filters
PerformancePoint Dashboards show improved performance when filters are applied.

Time Intelligence Post Formula filter
Time Intelligence Post Formula filters.

Display Condition
You use Display Condition functionality to link a key performance indicator (KPI) to a report, so that when dashboard users click the KPI, the linked report appears. In PerformancePoint Server 2007 SP1, you can now specify a default report to display before dashboard users click that KPI.

Dashboard filters and SQL Server Reporting Services reports
You can link multi-select dashboard filters to multi-select Reporting Services report parameters.

Sample data
The sample data file has been updated.

Planning

PerformancePoint Add-in for Excel offers a new workbook option: Clear changes after workflow action.

When you set the Clear changes after workflow action option to True, PerformancePoint Add-in for Excel automatically clears any changes after the workflow action occurs when the form is used in an assignment. This can help improve performance of subsequent queries, such as queries done during a workbook refresh. However, if the submission fails when this option is set to True, the user will not be able to re-submit the changes and the changes will be lost.

PerformancePoint Add-in for Excel offers a new workbook option: Enable what-if analysis.

When you set the Enable what-if analysis option to True for a matrix, PerformancePoint Add-in for Excel automatically performs what-if calculations that show the effect that the change will have on an assignment if it is submitted. If this option is set to False, PerformancePoint Add-in for Excel does not apply any changes to the matrix. This can help improve query performance.

The Data Import Wizard now works with any source data provider.

The Data Import Wizard is now a generic data integration wizard that requires customers and partners to develop their own data providers for integrating source financial data. Microsoft provides the PerformancePoint 2007 Data Integration Toolkit. This toolkit is a companion tool that provides a data integration framework. You can use this framework to create your own data providers. You can obtain the PerformancePoint 2007 Data Integration Toolkit. (http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=117552&clcid=0×409) from Microsoft Download Center.

PerformancePoint Add-in for Excel fixes a previous issue in the Report Wizard.

Before the SP1 release of PerformancePoint Server, filter value selections in a report that was created by using the Report Wizard, did not behave as expected. They were not limited by filter scope. After installation of SP1, filter value selections in a report that is created by using the Report Wizard will behave as expected. That is, filter value selections will be limited based on the filter scope.

PerformancePoint Add-in for Excel offers a new workflow action for assignments: Discard Submitted RDL & Workbook.

When you select the workflow action Discard Submitted RDL & Workbook for an assignment, the input form that is used in the assignment reverts to the original input form template for the assignment. Submitted data is not affected

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KPI: How do you define Success?

June 2nd, 2008 No comments

The MS BI blog has a nice short article about how to define success:

“If we think about the business, just how is success defined?  I think if you ask your employees what success means you might be surprised at the various definitions that they respond with.  Are they aware of the corporate goals that management is concerned about and equally important; do they know how they impact these goals?  From a management perspective, how do you align everyone around these definitions of success so you’re moving the ball forward?”

Read the entire article here

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