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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: Performance Point, PerformancePoint, PerformancePoint 2007, PPS

• 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: Performance Point, PerformancePoint, PerformancePoint 2007, Time Intelligence, Business Intelligence

• SSAS 2005 - Deployment issues following changes to statically linked measure groups

  If you are making changes to a linked object measure group after you have created the initial link, such as adding a new measure, you can come across the following error when you next deploy the solution. "Errors in the OLAP storage engine: The metadata Read More... Posted 03 October 2007 16:17 by David.Francis | 0 Comments Filed under: SQL, SQL Server, SQL Server Analysis Services, SSAS

• SSAS 2005 - No mapping between account names and security IDs was done error on deployment

  On the off chance you haven't come across this one before: If you get the following error 'No mapping between account names and security IDs was done' when trying to deploy a cube project then check the membership of all the roles on your Read More... Posted 01 October 2007 14:17 by David.Francis | 3 Comments Filed under: SQL, SQL Server, SQL Server Analysis Services, SSAS

• 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: Performance Point, PerformancePoint 2007

• SSAS Analysis Services MDX YTD function doesn't work with a Fiscal Year attribute type

  I suspect that many of you have already come across this in your day to day MDX'ing but just in case: The standard YTD function only works with the Year level of Time hierarchies when the Attribute Type is set in the Basic Properties section to type Read More... Posted 27 July 2007 14:42 by David.Francis | 0 Comments Filed under: SQL Server, SQL Server Analysis Services, MDX, SSAS

• 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: Performance Point, PerformancePoint 2007

• 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: Performance Point, PerformancePoint 2007

• 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: Performance Point, PerformancePoint 2007

• 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: Performance Point, PerformancePoint 2007