Microsoft SharePoint 2010 Unleashed

PerformancePoint Services Overview

PerformancePoint Services is relatively new even to veteran SharePoint users and administrators. The 2010 version of SharePoint is the first to include PerformancePoint Services as a base part of the installation. The product was born from a merger of Microsoft’s Business Scorecard Manager and products acquired from ProClarity. The first version of PerformancePoint was launched in 2007 and was initially sold under a separate license.

In early 2009, Microsoft announced plans to roll it into the SharePoint product. Effective in 2009, owners of the SharePoint Enterprise CAL became licensed for PerformancePoint; however, it remained a separate installation. With SharePoint 2010, PerformancePoint Services is now ...