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June 23, 2010 03:03 PM

PerformancePoint Services in SharePoint 2010

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Save this report as AdventureWorks Products. Once this report is saved in your list, note that it is saved as a certain content type. I'd like to point out here that if you were to add that content type to any other list, you would be able to save your reports in any list in SharePoint you wished. This really gives you the maximum flexibility you need.

Back on your SharePoint site on the default page, put the page in edit mode and drop the PerformancePoint report Web Part. Then, point this Web Part to this newly created report that you've just uploaded in your SharePoint site. You should note that the report is running in full interactivity on the SharePoint site. You should see a big blue bar called All geographies. Go ahead and click on the big blue bar, and the report should update, giving you the various products available. This can be seen in Web Figure 2.

Why is it that my bike sales are so high? I'm not asking this, but I know my business users will. When you see the bright red bar, right-click it and choose decomposition. This brings up a Decomposition Tree for the underlying data source, and it would immediately tell you that you are selling a lot of road bikes (shown in Web Figure 3).

Why are you selling so many road bikes? As an analyst now, you can click on it and easily choose the dimension you wish to expand upon (see Web Figure 4).

Let’s expand on Geography, which reveals that you are selling a lot of bikes in California. Expanding further by city reveals that you are selling a lot of bikes in Carson, and especially in the months of May, November, August, and February. This is a pattern that repeats every year. This pattern can be seen in Figure 7.

This clearly tells you that the Carson market is pivotal to your company's success! And, you were able to determine this without bothering a developer.



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Comments
  • Rowland Gosling
    1 year ago
    Jan 04, 2011

    I've been battling our Sharepoint 2010+PPS installation for most of today. I watched the demos fail at PASS 2010 in Seattle, then came home to hoplessly attempt using this stuff in our shop. Now I'm opening tickets, talking to strangers in far away lands. This has become a waste of time. It's not stable enough for production.

  • Palmer
    2 years ago
    Nov 03, 2010

    yes this is a great article. I have followed all of the steps but I am reciving this error in the error log whenever I try to connect to an excel data source

    PerformancePoint Services could not connect to the specified data source. Verify that either the current user or Unattended Service Account has read permissions to the data source, depending on your security configuration. Also verify that all required connection information is provided and correct.

    I have the sites to authenticate through NTLM do we need to have Kerceros configured if we are not connecting by Per-user Identity. I have uninstalled reinstall Sharepoint 2010 and configured Performance Point twice already. I don't know what eles I am doing wrong. Any assistance would be greatly appreciated.

  • OLSEN
    2 years ago
    Sep 13, 2010

    I was so excited to read this aticle addressing dashboards in Sharepoint, until I discovered that we are running Sharepoint 2007 with no plans to upgrade. Any resources out there that can help me wade through the set up of the monitoring server and associated dashboard designer tool on version 2007?

    TIA

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