Plan for PerformancePoint Services (SharePoint Server 2010)

 

Applies to: SharePoint Server 2013 Preview

This section describes how to plan for PerformancePoint Services within a Microsoft SharePoint Server 2010 environment.

In this section:

• PerformancePoint Services overview (SharePoint Server 2010)

  PerformancePoint Services in Microsoft SharePoint Server 2010 is a performance management service that you can use to monitor and analyze your business. By providing flexible, easy-to-use tools for building dashboards, scorecards, and key performance indicators (KPIs), PerformancePoint Services can help individuals across an organization make informed business decisions that align with companywide objectives and strategy.

• Overview of PerformancePoint Services architecture (SharePoint Server 2010)

  Microsoft SharePoint Server 2010 provides the flexibility to meet many different deployment solution goals.

• Estimate performance and capacity requirements for PerformancePoint Services

  This article provides guidance on the effect that PerformancePoint Services has on topologies running Microsoft SharePoint Server 2010. It describes what was learned from having created a test farm to perform capacity testing for several different scenarios and various topologies.

• Client hardware and software requirements for Dashboard Designer

  This article describes the hardware and software requirements for running PerformancePoint Dashboard Designer.

• Plan for importing PerformancePoint Server 2007 dashboard content to SharePoint Server 2010

  To facilitate and simplify the process of importing dashboard content from Microsoft Office PerformancePoint Server 2007 into PerformancePoint Services in Microsoft SharePoint Server 2010, an import wizard is available.

• Plan for PerformancePoint Services security (SharePoint Server 2010)

  In PerformancePoint Services in Microsoft SharePoint Server 2010, the objects stored in lists and document libraries are secured by the Microsoft SharePoint Server 2010 security model. On top of that model, PerformancePoint Services adds additional product features to the basic SharePoint Server 2010 framework to ensure that data sources and dashboard content are secure and protected from unwarranted access.

• Authorization and permissions in PerformancePoint Services (SharePoint Server 2010)

  PerformancePoint Services uses the SharePoint Server security model to control user access to various functionality and tasks.

• Planning for PerformancePoint data sources (PerformancePoint Services)

  This article is an overview of data sources that are available through PerformancePoint Services.

• Best practices for SQL Server OLAP cube design and MDX querying (SharePoint Server 2010)

  This article highlights best practices that help improve the performance of SSAS as a data source for Excel Services in Microsoft SharePoint Server 2010, PerformancePoint Services in Microsoft SharePoint Server 2010, and Visio Services in Microsoft SharePoint Server 2010.

• Overview of PerformancePoint Services components (SharePoint Server 2010)

  PerformancePoint Services and Microsoft SharePoint Server 2010 front-end Web components work together to provide monitoring and reporting functionality.

• Plan to customize PerformancePoint Services

  This article describes ways that you can customize the native functionality of PerformancePoint Services in Microsoft SharePoint Server 2010 by using the PerformancePoint Services SDK.

• Plan a PerformancePoint dashboard to show organizational performance

  These articles cover PerformancePoint dashboards.

• PerformancePoint Services and PowerPivot for Excel (white paper)

  This white paper discusses integration between PerformancePoint Services and PowerPivot for Excel.

See Also

Concepts

Best practices for SQL Server OLAP cube design and MDX querying (SharePoint Server 2010)
PerformancePoint Services overview (SharePoint Server 2010)

Other Resources

Resource Center: Business Intelligence in SharePoint Server 2010