Mark Macrae

About Me

Mark Macrae MCTS

Intelligent Decisioning Ltd www.id-live.com

7 Yrs SharePoint Project Experience

macraem.wordpress.com

mark@id-live.com / @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?