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Dynamic Dimension members on a PerformancePoint KPI
One of our customers had read Nick Barclay's post on dynamic sets in SSAS 2008 and was hoping that this would mean that you could create KPI's with dynamic dimension members.  Well the answer is yes and no.  It's already possible...
PerformancePoint Monitoring - Hide empty rows in a grid or chart by design
So as the dust settles and everyone calms down, it's time to move on and get back to what we're good at! Just in case anyone was worried, we'll continue to be at the cutting edge of PerformancePoint Services and the MS BI stack as well as...
PPS Monitoring - Missing Parameters using a Reporting Services report in SharePoint integrated mode
If you're running Monitoring with SP1 applied and working with a Reporting Services report in your dashboard that comes from a report server in SharePoint integrated mode, you may experience an issue where your parameters don't appear in the Report...
PerformancePoint Monitoring Web Service - Part 3
In Part 1 we looked at the basics of connecting to web service and retrieving the metadata.  Part 2 looked at how to create a datasource first class object (FCO) and the quirks of the "well known" properties (thanks to Wade Dorrell for...
Great Dashboard Design
PerformancePoint Monitoring has made it really easy to build and publish basic dashboards.  However designing really great dashboards is something that very few people achieve.  Despite my recent post on making your reports pretty, I'm not...
Advanced PerformancePoint Dashboard Webcast
Alyson Powell Erwin from the PPS Monitoring team did a great webcast yesterday on building advanced dashboards.  If, like me, you were unable to watch it live you can view the recording here .  This was actually the last of a series of PPS webcasts...
PerformancePoint Monitoring Dashboard Object Security
On the properties tab of every object in PPS Monitoring you will find a permissions section that allows you to assign either reader or editor rights. These permissions actually relate to two quite different areas: What you will see when you view the deployed...
ProClarity and Reporting Services reports in a PPS Monitoring Dashboard
So I was going to do a post on displaying a reporting services report in a PPSM Dashboard but then realised then that the PPS team had already done that: http://blogs.msdn.com/performancepoint/archive/2007/07/20/how-do-i-integrate-ssrs-reports-with-dashboard...
Book: Rational Guide to Monitoring and Analyzing with PerformancePoint Server 2007
Christmas came early last week when a copy of the First PPS book to be published dropped through our letter box - Thanks Nick and Adrian :) For those of you aren't familiar with Rational Guides the format is designed to get you up and running with...
Nick Barclay: PerformancePoint Monitoring Data Source Connection Problems
Whilst I try to avoid just blogging about other people's blogs, this one is too important to miss and the more people who can find it the better. Nick Barclay (who just in case you don't know is the author the upcoming Rational Guide To Monitoring...