Mark Macrae
About Me
Mark Macrae MCTS
Intelligent Decisioning Ltd www.id-live.com
7 Yrs SharePoint Project Experience
macraem.wordpress.com
[email protected] / @m_macrae
SUGUK
Outside SharePoint…Krav Maga, football
coaching, West Ham (shhh)
Agenda
Microsoft’s Vision
Flashback
Where did PPS Come From?
PerformancePoint 2007
PerformancePoint Svcs 2010
Summary
Delivered through a familiar environment
Integrated into business collaboration infrastructure
Built on a trusted and extensible platform
Improving organizations by providing business insights to
all employees leading to better, faster, more relevant decisions
The Microsoft Vision
Flashback… 2006
Strategic
SQL Server 2005 (SSAS, SSRS, SSIS)
Sound foundations
Tactical
MS Excel 2003, MS Visio 2003
SSRS Report Builder 1.0
Business Scorecard Manager
Operational
SharePoint 2003
Poor delivery mechanism
Where did PPS Come From?
Monitoring & Analytics
Business Scorecard Manager 2005
Acquisition of ProClarity
Planning
Dynamics FRx
Biz# (dev rather than acquisition)
..delays…delays…delays
Change of Philosophy
Planning dropped in Jan 2009 (after 6 years of Biz# project) Saturated market
Too complex
FPA, Gemini (PowerPivot) closest replacements
Ceased to be a separate product
Available for free with MOSS 2007 Enterprise CALs (with SA)
Focus on Monitoring & Analytics
PPS 2007 Architecture
PPS Monitoring Database
Monitoring Server(Web Services)
Web Part Preview Site Dashboard
ProClarity Analytics
Dashboard Designer
ProClarity Web
PPS 2007 Security
Permissions stored in Monitoring DB
Separate from SharePoint
Permissions everywhere! PPS,
SharePoint, Data Sources
User Pass Through vs App Pool Account
PPS Monitoring Server 2007
Pain ProClarity
Pie Chart
Customisation
Architecture
Security
Maintenance
Deployment
Pleasure Quickly build
dashboards
Great on OLAP
Cubes
PPS 2010 Architecture
Service Application (Enterprise only)
Content stored in Content Database
Integrated SharePoint security
User Pass Through vs Unattended
Service Account
PerformancePoint 2010
Pain Server specification
Training
Pleasure Integrated with
SharePoint
Content Types
Security, Workflow
etc
Deployment
Maintenance
Pie Chart!
PPS 2010 Architecture
Service Application (Enterprise only)
Content stored in Content Database
Integrated SharePoint security
User Pass Through vs Unattended
Service Account
Microsoft BI in Market Place
2007 Q1 2010 Q1
ProClarity?
Still around….
32-bit Only
No further development
All major features now migrated
Questions?