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March 2007 - Posts

• PerformancePoint CTP1 - Planning Assignment doesn't render issue and solution from Microsoft

  Here is a useful bit of info from Mark Yang at Microsoft if you ever get the following issue in the CTP1 build of PerformancePoint Planning. I had been working/playing with the assignment and workflow functionality of PerformancePoint Planning and had Read More... Posted 27 March 2007 09:12 by David.Francis | 0 Comments Filed under: Performance Point

• PerformancePoint CTP1 - Persisting your Excel Add-In worksheet number formats

  I'd like to say there was a really slick way of doing this, but I haven't found one yet. In Performance Point the only measure that you can view using the Excel Add-In Matrix forms is [Measures].[Value] which is created as type double. No problem Read More... Posted 26 March 2007 15:56 by David.Francis | 4 Comments Filed under: Performance Point

• PerformancePoint CTP1 - Keeping your own calculated measures (Update)

  I've said in previous posts that you couldn't keep your own calculated measures in CTP1 as redeploying either the model site or rules and variables will destroy them. It would appear from Microsoft that the line for CTP2 is 'In CTP2, we will Read More... Posted 12 March 2007 09:08 by David.Francis | 1 Comments Filed under: Performance Point

• PerformancePoint CTP1 - When Time isn't Time.

  Due to issues I'm having with the Scorecard builder (is it functional in CTP1 or not? - getting mixed messages on the forum and newsgroups), I decided to do some KPI work using Proclarity Business Logic Server. However, it is unable to find any time Read More... Posted 09 March 2007 10:07 by David.Francis | 1 Comments Filed under: Performance Point

• PerformancePoint CTP1 - AS Cube Roles and Scorecard Builder

  PerformancePoint comes in three 'chunks' - Planning, Monitoring and Analytics. The planning side is implemented using what was Biz# and in the main appears to work well. The analytics isn't really in the product yet but will be based around Read More... Posted 09 March 2007 09:41 by David.Francis | 1 Comments Filed under: Performance Point