Chapter 20: PerformancePoint Services and Business Intelligence
What’s In This Chapter?
- Installing and configuring PerformancePoint Services
- Dashboard Designer
- Importing PerformancePoint Server 2007 content to PerformancePoint Services 2010
PerformancePoint Services (PPS) is one of the built-in services in SharePoint Server 2010. PPS is a performance management application that individuals use to monitor and analyze business data to help improve effectiveness and efficiency. Microsoft’s Business Intelligence (BI) solution is based on using PPS in SharePoint 2010, SQL Server, and the Office Platform. PPS is available to any company that installs SharePoint Server 2010 using an Enterprise key, and has purchased Enterprise Client Access Licenses (CALs) for its employees.
Microsoft introduced PerformancePoint capability in a stand-alone product called PerformancePoint Server 2007 (PPS2007), and this capability integrated with SharePoint Server 2007 through the use of Web Parts. With the introduction of SharePoint Server 2010, PPS is now an integrated part of SharePoint 2010’s architecture and exists as one of the available services. PPS retains many of the same features and functionality as its predecessor while including additional benefits, enhancements, and new functionality. PPS provides the capability to create and utilize BI objects referred to as dashboards, scorecards, and key performance indicators (KPIs). PPS also provides the capability to upgrade PPS2007 content using ...
