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• PerformancePoint Server 2007 SP1 - Possible release date

  Just a quick note to say that SP1 for PerformancePoint is likely to be available early May. I don't have any specific contents for it yet. Read More... Posted 29 February 2008 11:04 by David.Francis | 0 Comments Filed under: PerformancePoint 2007, PPS, Performance Point, PerformancePoint

• PerformancePoint Time Intelligence - BI for the masses Part 1

  Microsoft have often mentioned their desire in the past for 'BI for Masses', giving the power of business intelligence to everyone who might need data to make a decision rather than just a few power analysts. For most users and lets face it lots Read More... Posted 02 December 2007 05:38 by David.Francis | 1 Comments Filed under: PerformancePoint 2007, Performance Point, PerformancePoint, Time Intelligence, Business Intelligence

• PerformancePoint CTP4 now available

  PerformancePoint CTP4 is now available as of yesterday on the Connect download site. Courtesy of Microsoft, here are the new feature lists. PerformancePoint Planning Business Modeler · Business Rule Templates. Several additional rule templates Read More... Posted 16 August 2007 10:41 by David.Francis | 2 Comments Filed under: PerformancePoint 2007, Performance Point

• PerformancePoint CTP4 - Due in early to mid August 2007

  Whoops, forgot to mention the date for CTP4 which is primarily a Planning functionality release but will have some changes to Monitoring and Analytics as well, see previous blog http://blogs.conchango.com/davidfrancis/archive/2007/07/21/PerformancePoint-CTP4-Monitoring-and-Analytics-_2D00_-Some-more-Proclarity-like-features-promised.asp Read More... Posted 26 July 2007 11:27 by David.Francis | 1 Comments Filed under: PerformancePoint 2007, Performance Point

• PerformancePoint RTM and GA dates

  Alyson Powell Erwin at Microsoft has confirmed that the target RTM month for PerformancePoint is September 2007 with the General Availability release being several weeks later. Read More... Posted 21 July 2007 12:46 by David.Francis | 3 Comments Filed under: PerformancePoint 2007, Performance Point

• PerformancePoint CTP4 Monitoring and Analytics - Some more Proclarity like features promised

  Just a quick note to mention that the following features have been promised for CTP4 M&A. 'Sticky bit' filter selections - i.e. as you navigate across multiple pages, the filter selections from your previously viewed page will propagate to Read More... Posted 21 July 2007 12:27 by David.Francis | 1 Comments Filed under: PerformancePoint 2007, Performance Point

• PerformancePoint CTP3 now available + PerformancePoint Server Management Reporter

  Due to being on-site with only a hot-spot connection, I haven't downloaded anything yet, but CTP3 is now available on Microsoft Connect. The planning functionality has remained the same as that in CTP2 with some hotfixes to follow but the Monitoring Read More... Posted 25 June 2007 23:46 by David.Francis | 0 Comments Filed under: PerformancePoint 2007, Performance Point

• PerformancePoint - How do you use yours?

  Microsoft's vision with PerformancePoint is that we will use it as an end to end solution with the AS cube being built by the Business Modeler and all analysis being done with the Monitoring and Analytics components (which are improving greatly with Read More... Posted 22 June 2007 08:43 by David.Francis | 0 Comments Filed under: Performance Point

• PerformancePoint CTP3 - Possible release date and some future features in Monitoring and Analytics.

  I was asked last night whilst presenting Monitoring and Analytics in CTP2 to the UK SQL BI users group ( www.sqlserverfaq.com ) if I knew when CTP3 was due out. This from Jeff Zhu at Microsoft on the newsgroup. The date may be around July 20th . Most Read More... Posted 27 April 2007 11:54 by David.Francis | 4 Comments Filed under: Performance Point

• PerformancePoint Upgrade Paths - More info on Monitoring and Analytics

  Just in from Microsoft. (Thanks to Elaine Andersen) 'For Monitoring and Analytics, the upgrade path will begin with CTP3, not CTP2. (This differs from Planning.) Thus, users will be able to upgrade CTP3 to future releases. Users working with PPS Monitoring Read More... Posted 04 April 2007 10:53 by David.Francis | 0 Comments Filed under: Performance Point