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Jeremy has already announced the release of PerformancePoint Server SP2 and it's great to see that the PPS dev team hit their target release date ! I've spent a little commute time this morning checking out the documentation, admittedly...
Word on the street is that next Monday, 8th December 2008, the second Service Pack for PerformancePoint Server 2007 will be released. Less than a week !
I had a bit of a rant yesterday about the fact I have had to compromise naming member properties when I've inadvertently created them with the wrong data type. As I mentioned, I found a Dimension attribute collection method in the Planning client...
Update: I've posted a solution to Deleting a Custom Member Property here I've done this countless times; I've created my perfectly named Custom Member Property when it suddenly dawns on me that I've forgotten to give it the right...
Amidst my write up of the first day of the Microsoft BI Conference , I mentioned a new planning demo suite was imminent, and I would post more information about the demos soon. Well, as it has now been officially released (27th October) I can spill...
I think I've found a bug in the way the Excel Add-In generates MDX under certain 'rolling' conditions. The requirement I have is to be able to forecast at the day level for a rolling 6 months; starting from the current period (which...
More for my benefit this post; I can never remember the format for the CSV file to load the Account dimension. Below is an example csv file in it's simplest form that should help get me started faster the next time I need it ! Label,Name,Description...
We recently had to turn a couple of demo boxes into a 2 client development environment for an overly aggressive PPS-P deadline. Both demo boxes were connected to the network and both were PPS-P Servers. We wanted to nominate a specific box...
There's a new tool for PerformancePoint Planning that allows you to migrate reference and fact data between applications. (It is designed to be used for first time migrations only) Documentation here Download here
Inspired by Adrian 's post on the TechNet Planning Forum here's my list of 'I wants' for PPS-P. I've cross posted this to the forum discussion too. A few of these have been suggested before but there are some new ones in...
You’ve built a rule set to satisfy an original set of business requirements for calculating budget, and all is good with the world. Then, a change order is raised and approved that requires, for want of a better description, a set of pre-defined what...
A great new PPS-P focused blog has been up and running for a good few weeks now. Peter Eb. , a developer on the PPS Excel add-in has started blogging some real gold with a mixture of definitions, 'howtos' and workarounds. He's one of the resident...
I've had this book for a while and have been meaning to publish a review for sometime. I reviewed the companion book Monitoring and Analyzing with Microsoft PerformancePoint Server 2007 by the same authors, Adrian Downes and Nick Barclay of B(iQ)...
I've updated my Account Type Crib Sheet . It now has a back page where other PerformancePoint Planning types have been detailed. Included are: - Flow - Biz System Flag - Business Process - Consolidation Method - Entity Type - Exchange Rate - Time...
I've been speaking to a couple of people recently that, although subscribe to my blog, are not aware of our PPS Planning Sharepoint Web Part that Tim has blogged about here and here . This post is more of an awareness that we have other bloggers onboard...
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