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RIP PerformancePoint Planning
It's nearly a week since the announcement that shook the (PPS) world !  It's been a bit difficult to report on; generally the Adatis blogs try and offer solutions to problems we have encountered out in the real-world.  Now I could say...
PerformancePoint SP2 - Planning Fixes and a mini-feature
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...
PerformancePoint Server SP2 - Target Release Date 8th December 2008
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 !
PerformancePoint Planning: Deleting a Custom Member Property - A Solution
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...
PerformancePoint Planning: Deleting a Custom Member Property..
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...
New PerformancePoint Contoso Demo - Released
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...
Dynamic Range, Time Property Filter = Empty Matrix - A bug?
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...
Unofficial PerformancePoint Planning Tips and Tricks
Wavesmash has posted a series of tips and tricks shared at a train the trainer event that took place in Denver recently.  As suggested, most of the 'nuggets' are from the attendees themselves rather than the course material so, on the plus...
PerformancePoint Server 2007 PPSCMD GUI
I've built a really simple GUI for a couple of commands of the PPSCMD utility.  I always take far too long to work out the syntax and navigate to the appropriate directory (Yes, I ought to update the PATH environment variable) that I felt I could...
PerformancePoint Server Planning SP1 - Clear Changes After Workflow Action
There's a new workbook property that was introduced in PPS Service Pack 1.  The 'Clear Changes After Workflow Action' effectively splats the change list for the workbook once the assignment has been submitted (either draft or final)....
PerformancePoint Planning - Loading the account dimension members from CSV
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...
PerformancePoint Planning - Data change tracking / audit trail
PerformancePoint Planning does contain auditing out-of-the-box.  However, it's not data level auditing but instead Metadata level auditing.  If you want to track when a user has been added, or a workflow cycle started then PPS-P keeps a...
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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...
PerformancePoint Planning Server Data Migration Tool
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
PerformancePoint Suggestion box
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...
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