Posted by Russell on January - 9 - 2011
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?
Posted by Russell on January - 7 - 2011
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
Posted by Russell on January - 5 - 2011
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
Posted by Russell on January - 2 - 2011
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
Posted by Russell on March - 11 - 2009
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
Posted by Russell on January - 23 - 2009
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
Posted by Russell on December - 9 - 2008
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
Posted by Russell on December - 5 - 2008
The landing page for PerformancePoint SP2 just appeared at http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/performancepoint/FX102380591033.aspx. While as of yet there are no download links on the page, I think it’s safe to guess that we’ll see the distro in the ne
Posted by Russell on July - 19 - 2008
I spent a chunk of time this morning scratching my head when I couldn’t get PerformancePoint Monitoring & Analytics display actions working in MOSS. They worked fine in certain dashboards I had already published, but different dashboards publish
Posted by Russell on July - 17 - 2008
While building out some dimensions today, I ran into the following error while using Planning Business Modeler. The error occurred when I selected the name of a table/view in my data source: