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Archive for the ‘PerformancePoint’ Category
PerformancePoint already supports the ability to add comments to KPIs which reside in a scorecard, and this is good. Let’s learn how to extend commenting with threaded discussions, shall we?
In 2010, the install point of PerformancePoint Dashboard Designer isn’t overly discoverable, but Microsoft has done a good job documenting how to get the thing loaded. Most of the time, our instructions tell you to go to a BI Center site, and in
On to dashboards! In my previous post, I touched on building out a data model in QlikView. In this post, we’ll cover using it by building “sheets” (like PerformancePoint dashboard pages or PowerPivot worksheets). I suspect I’ll get
Over the holidays, I decided to experiment with some business intelligence technology that I normally don’t have the opportunity work with – QlikTech’s QlikView. In a nutshell, I took Microsoft’s Contoso Retail sample DW, brought portions
(This refers to MOSS 2010 and PPS V2) Today I needed to make an internal PPS demo available via the internet, so some alternate access mapping within SharePoint was in order. I added an AAM entry for my default web site, essentially converting
The title says it all! x86: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=90c596a5-aca4-4ded-9072-facf834bc0c6&displaylang=en x64: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=3ad75ae5-d2cd-4953-87cf-5f74d79804c6&di
I’m currently working on a project which leverages many PerformancePoint reports. The dashboards I’ve built use a fair number of analytic chart report objects on a single dashboard page (at least 4, sometimes more). When I ran many of these pag
As a BI Technical Specialist at Microsoft, PPS is (was?) my bread and butter – It’s how I eat. So the changes to the Microsoft’s strategy around the product hit pretty close to home for me. (What? You don’t know what they are? Go here.) And
OK, I was a few days off on my guesstimate….and the landing page I pointed to earlier still doesn’t have links directly to the files…but SP2 was released late yesterday afternoon and can be downloaded here (x86) and here (x64) There’s also ton
