B.I. the way... https://docs.microsoft.com/archive/blogs/ppsdocteam/feed.xml SharePoint Business Intelligence Blog Wed, 17 Apr 2019 04:00:53 GMT en-US hourly 1 This Blog is officially retired – look for us on “To the SharePoint” blog https://docs.microsoft.com/archive/blogs/ppsdocteam/this-blog-is-officially-retired-look-for-us-on-to-the-sharepoint-blog Wed, 13 Jan 2010 09:23:00 GMT https://blogs.technet.microsoft.com/ppsdocteam/2010/01/13/this-blog-is-officially-retired-look-for-us-on-to-the-sharepoint-blog/

Effective today, BI the Way…SharePoint Business Intelligence blog is officially being retired. To better serve the needs of our SharePoint users and to consolidate postings from the SharePoint writing team, you can now find all future posts on PerformancePoint Services, Excel Services, Visio Services and all SharePoint Business Intelligence news on To the SharePoint – the SharePoint IT Pro documentation team blog.

 

Look forward to seeing you there!

]]> The new Business Intelligence Resource Center for SharePoint Server 2010 https://docs.microsoft.com/archive/blogs/ppsdocteam/the-new-business-intelligence-resource-center-for-sharepoint-server-2010 Thu, 05 Nov 2009 08:18:55 GMT https://blogs.technet.microsoft.com/ppsdocteam/2009/11/05/the-new-business-intelligence-resource-center-for-sharepoint-server-2010/ The new Business Intelligence Resource Center for SharePoint Server 2010 is a TechNet site for information about business intelligence in SharePoint Server 2010. The following is some of what is is included in the TechNet resource center.

IT professionals

Developers

The site also links to the diagram, Getting started with business intelligence in SharePoint Server 2010, described here.

Thee are also links to Blogs, the Microsoft Business Intelligence center on TechNet, and more !

]]> Microsoft Office PerformancePoint Server 2007 Service Pack 3 is now available https://docs.microsoft.com/archive/blogs/ppsdocteam/microsoft-office-performancepoint-server-2007-service-pack-3-is-now-available Wed, 28 Oct 2009 12:14:00 GMT https://blogs.technet.microsoft.com/ppsdocteam/2009/10/28/microsoft-office-performancepoint-server-2007-service-pack-3-is-now-available/ Microsoft released PerformancePoint Service Pack 3 on November 15, 2009. You can read more about PerformancePoint Server 2007 Service Pack 3 here on Microsoft Office Online.  Go to the Microsoft download site to get Service Pack 3:

·        64-bit version (x64):  https://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=3ad75ae5-d2cd-4953-87cf-5f74d79804c6&displaylang=en

·        32-bit version (x86):  https://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=90C596A5-ACA4-4DED-9072-FACF834BC0C6&displaylang=en

Improved performance and formatting are just some of the new features that PerformancePoint Server SP3 addresses. SP3 introduces improvements in both PerformancePoint Monitoring and Analytics and Planning.

See the Microsoft TechNet article Service Pack 3 for Microsoft Office PerformancePoint Server 2007 for documentation for IT professionals. See the PerformancePoint Server 2007 Service Pack 3 Readme for details not included in the documentation.]]> New business intelligence services in SharePoint Server 2010 https://docs.microsoft.com/archive/blogs/ppsdocteam/new-business-intelligence-services-in-sharepoint-server-2010 Sat, 24 Oct 2009 10:56:58 GMT https://blogs.technet.microsoft.com/ppsdocteam/2009/10/24/new-business-intelligence-services-in-sharepoint-server-2010/ PerformancePoint Server 2007 is integrated into SharePoint Server 2010 (Beta), to add business intelligence features such as dashboards, scorecards, KPIs, and more. The poster, "Getting started with business intelligence in SharePoint Server 2010" is a review of all the business intelligence (BI) services in SharePoint Server 2010 (Beta) and includes the following information. The poster can be downloaded in Visio, PDF, and XPS file formats.

  • An overview of each business intelligence service and when you might use each service to surface reports, scorecards, KPIs, Excel files, and other features of BI.
  • Architecture to show how the business intelligence services work together.
  • A list of possible data sources for each business intelligence service.

Note that the term "Insights" in the poster refers to business intelligence.

From the poster:

The BI tools you use depend on the specific problems you are trying to solve. Your daily business activities have associated information and insights that emerge in three main areas of business intelligence: personal (and self-service), team or community, and organizational.

There will be overlap across these areas as seen in the diagram below. For example, in SharePoint Server 2010, a company’s employees may use Excel Services and Visio Services  to make relevant business decisions at the corporate level.

By design, all Microsoft BI products inter-operate so that teams and individuals within an organization can move across the continuum of personal, team, and organizational BI and have all products work together. For example, SQL Server Reporting Services reports, Excel Services reports, or Visio diagrams can be published in a PerformancePoint Dashboard.

The following is a sample of the poster. It is small and can be better viewed in the download (Visio, PDF, and XPS).

 

  • BI_categories

    • ]]>         Published: Office PerformancePoint Server 2007 end-to-end walkthrough https://docs.microsoft.com/archive/blogs/ppsdocteam/published-office-performancepoint-server-2007-end-to-end-walkthrough Tue, 26 May 2009 14:14:00 GMT https://blogs.technet.microsoft.com/ppsdocteam/2009/05/26/published-office-performancepoint-server-2007-end-to-end-walkthrough/ Find it here:

    https://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=a6364ca9-5a95-44b8-9b87-1bb24ef07760&displaylang=en

     What is it?

    It's a straight forward guide to installing and using PerformancePoint Planning and Monitoring Servers. It lists a number of easy to follow procedures along with links to the next steps in the process after the servers are installed and configured. This is not designed to replace our existing PerformancePoint Server documentation found here: https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb794633.aspx. It is designed to augment it and put all the basics right at your fingertips in an easy to read and follow format.

     Thanks for checking in and enjoy!

     - Hal

     

     

     

    ]]>         PerformancePoint Monitoring Server, Service Pack 2 diagram -prerelease article https://docs.microsoft.com/archive/blogs/ppsdocteam/performancepoint-monitoring-server-service-pack-2-diagram-prerelease-article Fri, 15 May 2009 13:01:31 GMT https://blogs.technet.microsoft.com/ppsdocteam/2009/05/15/performancepoint-monitoring-server-service-pack-2-diagram-prerelease-article/ Sometimes we like to see a picture or diagram to help plan and even simplify deployment tasks. Here are some visual steps for installing PerformancePoint Monitoring Server prerequisites and Service Pack 2. The image does not replace our documentation and covers only one scenario.

    It is an experiment to see if the diagram is useful for seeing the process and keeping steps in order. Please tell me if this helps you see what must happen to install PerformancePoint Monitoring Server and Service Pack 2. Similar steps might be documented for Service Pack 3.

    SP2_installDecision_tree1SP2_installDecision_tree2

    ]]>         Use Virtual Earth with PerformancePoint Server to combine and analyze information https://docs.microsoft.com/archive/blogs/ppsdocteam/use-virtual-earth-with-performancepoint-server-to-combine-and-analyze-information Thu, 14 May 2009 18:31:00 GMT https://blogs.technet.microsoft.com/ppsdocteam/2009/05/14/use-virtual-earth-with-performancepoint-server-to-combine-and-analyze-information/

    Check out this video that demonstrates how combining Microsoft Virtual Earth with PerformancePoint Server 2007 can achieve a truly integrated scorecard.  This video demonstrates how a public health department can improve its capacity to analyze data from seemingly unrelated data sources and quickly identify county health issues by pairing the geo-spatial capabilities with the reporting and BI capabilities of PerformancePoint Server.

     

     https://www.microsoft.com/Industry/government/solutions/virtual_earth/demo/ps_gbi.html

    ]]>         Download PerformancePoint documentation from TechNet https://docs.microsoft.com/archive/blogs/ppsdocteam/download-performancepoint-documentation-from-technet Thu, 14 May 2009 18:01:00 GMT https://blogs.technet.microsoft.com/ppsdocteam/2009/05/14/download-performancepoint-documentation-from-technet/

    As you know, we make available some of the content from the PerformancePoint Server 2007 technical library (published on https://www.TechNet.com )in a downloadable and printable form as Microsoft Office Word  files.   The content in these books is a copy of selected content in the PerformancePoint Server 2007 technical library.

     

    We have just updated the PerformancePoint Downloadable Content on TechNet  to reflect not only new and updated content that has been added since the initial release, but also have divided up the content into more manageable and customer focused areas.  We now have a PPS Monitoring Planning & Architecture Guide, Deployment Guide and Operation Guide and a separate set for PPS Planning.

     

    The following content is available for download:

     

    Title

    Description

    Monitoring Server Planning and Architecture Guide for PerformancePoint Server 2007

    Download

    This book provides prescriptive information for maintaining and performing the daily operations of PerformancePoint Monitoring Server. This includes upgrading, maintaining databases, migrating data to production environments, backing up and restoring databases, and performance tuning and capacity planning.

    Monitoring Server Operations Guide for PerformancePoint Server 2007

    Download

    This book provides prescriptive information for maintaining and performing the daily operations of PerformancePoint Monitoring Server. This includes upgrading, maintaining databases, migrating data to production environments, backing up and restoring databases, and performance tuning and capacity planning.

    Monitoring Server Deployment Guide for PerformancePoint Server 2007

    Download

    This book provides prescriptive information for deploying Microsoft PerformancePoint Monitoring Server. This includes planning single and distributed deployments, configuring PerformancePoint Server features, and configuring PerformancePoint security settings to mitigate threats.

    PerformancePoint Server Operations Guide

    Download

    This book provides prescriptive information for maintaining and performing the daily operations of Microsoft PerformancePoint Planning and Monitoring Server 2007.

    Deployment Guide for PerformancePoint Server 2007

    Download

    This book provides prescriptive information for planning and deploying Microsoft PerformancePoint Planning and Monitoring Server 2007

    Training guide for PerformancePoint Server 2007

    Hands-on lessons about planning in Microsoft Office PerformancePoint Server 2007

    Whitepaper: How to Leverage Project Server 2007 with PerformancePoint Server 2007 Monitoring and Analytics

    Provides an overview of the PerformancePoint Server software and how it can be used to develop dashboards with the existing Reporting and Analysis Services databases created with Project Server 2007. Sample data files are also provided for using with corresponding sections of the white paper.

     

     

     

    ]]>         Report Building with Excel Services https://docs.microsoft.com/archive/blogs/ppsdocteam/report-building-with-excel-services Wed, 29 Apr 2009 19:00:00 GMT https://blogs.technet.microsoft.com/ppsdocteam/2009/04/29/report-building-with-excel-services/ One of the most useful features of Excel Services is report building. Reports can include business intelligence data or any type of data you are working with in Excel Services. Generating and publishing Excel Services reports is one of the basic parts of a dashboard.

    Excel Services reports function very much like Excel workbooks and can appear similarly when you view them, whether you view an Excel workbook on your computer or in a SharePoint document library. Excel Services reports can include a variety of standard Excel features and functionality, such as conditional formatting, formulas, and charts. When you publish an Excel workbook to Excel Services, your workbook becomes the data source for an Excel Services report type in the Dashboard Designer. Creating any type of Excel Services report is a two step process. You begin by using the wizard to create the basic report structure. Then you can select the data to display in the report.

    There are several white papers available for creating various types of reports within Excel Services:

    ·         Building a Report Based on Cube Functions for Excel Web Access

    ·         Building an OLAP PivotTable Report with Excel Services

    ·         Building a Relational PivotTable Report with Excel Services

    ·         Building a Report with a Chart for Excel Web Access Based on Cube Functions

     

    ]]>         Watch this! PerformancePoint and Pervasive BI with Analytic Vision video https://docs.microsoft.com/archive/blogs/ppsdocteam/watch-this-performancepoint-and-pervasive-bi-with-analytic-vision-video Fri, 17 Apr 2009 16:43:00 GMT https://blogs.technet.microsoft.com/ppsdocteam/2009/04/17/watch-this-performancepoint-and-pervasive-bi-with-analytic-vision-video/

    Microsoft recently included its PerformancePoint in the licensing with SharePoint Enterprise for customers with MOSS Enterprise with Software Assurance (SA).  Why is this huge?  For one, it makes high end business intelligence available to the entire enterprise space where SharePoint Enterprise is used.

    Pricing is the another reason.  Previously the product cost roughly $200 per CAL (client access license). Even at that high price tag, far higher than the cost of SharePoint Enterprise, it was still considered cheaper than its competitors. With its inclusion in SharePoint Enterprise however we see the ability to provide pervasive BI become a reality easily achieved.

    Check out this video from Microsoft partner, Analytic Vision, where they provide an overview and demonstration of PerformancePoint. If you are a SharePoint MOSS Enterprise SA customer you definitely need to watch this.

     

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