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With the recent changes to PerformancePoint Server the way it is procured and licensed is changing. If like me, you still want to offer clients a BI solution which uses PerformancePoint the following may be of interest - good news, it is getting cheaper (thanks to the guys at Microsoft who gave me the information): · Until April 1st, the ...

I heard rumours earlier in the week that PerformancePoint was going to be changing and colleagues had found various snippets of news online, but there are now details on the The Microsoft BI Blog - it looks like Planning is going to be discontinued (after SP3) and  Monitoring will be included in MOSS - makes sense with the new strategy / road ...

As part of work recently to improve how we test the Scrum for Team System template and tools across different platforms, we have discovered there are a few additional manual steps to take when you are installing the template in a distributed environment (i.e. you are using a remote WSS 3 or MOSS 2007 server to host your Team Project Portals). ...

Technorati Tags: MOSS,User Adoption,Usage Stats,Reporting Services,PPS,PerformancePoint,IIS,User Statistics You have created an awesome new BI solution it is superior to the incumbent system and it is full of cool new features, good job? But what if no one uses it... Regardless of whether you are going for a Big Bang, Parallel, Phased or other ...

I was looking at Microsoft's support site earlier today for a hotfix for Windows Server 2003 when I noticed a few hotfixes for Sharepoint 2007 had been released already.  As I couldn't see a single place to find this information publicly I'm reposting them here. I’d also recommend keeping an eye on this page for some ...