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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 to do this in Monitoring (or should I say PerformancePoint...

Posted to Tim Kent's blog (Weblog) by Tim Kent on 03-05-2009
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 looking at SharePoint in more detail. I thought I'd...

Posted to Tim Kent's blog (Weblog) by Tim Kent on 02-09-2009
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 Parameters section. There's a hotfix available...

Posted to Tim Kent's blog (Weblog) by Tim Kent on 09-29-2008
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 the feedback and for raising a usability bug for the...

Posted to Tim Kent's blog (Weblog) by Tim Kent on 08-22-2008
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 a fan of bells and whistles - in a pre-sales/sales...

Posted to Tim Kent's blog (Weblog) by Tim Kent on 04-22-2008
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. There's a bit of everything in this one...

Posted to Tim Kent's blog (Weblog) by Tim Kent on 03-29-2008
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 dashboard; and What objects you can use and...

Posted to Tim Kent's blog (Weblog) by Tim Kent on 02-28-2008
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-filters.aspx And then I was halfway through...

Posted to Tim Kent's blog (Weblog) by Tim Kent on 02-25-2008
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 a product rather than be an in-depth technical reference...

Posted to Tim Kent's blog (Weblog) by Tim Kent on 12-14-2007
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 and Analyzing with Microsoft Office PerformancePoint...

Posted to Tim Kent's blog (Weblog) by Tim Kent on 11-07-2007

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