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Just read this article about collaboration and time lost. They say a person looses over $3,300 a year looking for information. That is probably about right. Our solution Extended Outlook and Extended Excel retrieves a large portion of that lost ROI and we have proven it several...
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SharePoint upgrade from 2007 to 2010 is a fairly straightforward process in comparison to the Performance Point 2007 to 2010 migration. Performance Point pages will migrate to 2010, however, all dashboards will be broken. The recommended solution is to repost a new dashboard on top of the old once. Data...
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Performance Point 2010 is completely redesigned in order to play nice with SharePoint. This actually introduces a very interesting workflow for authoring PPS dashboards. All PPS objects are stored in a SharePoint List and are manageable in there. For example you can create new a Data Source connection...
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Interesting Announcements: SharePoint Beta2 will be available in Nov 2009; Visual Studio tools for Office 32 and 64 bit are available with VS 2010 beta 2. Overall Feedback: MOSS2010 will support custom Silverlight web parts out of the box. Silverlight control shown here is a great step forward...
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I'm enjoying being in Las Vegas - attending Microsoft SharePoint 2009 conference. I'm going to present my personal view on this event not in any way associated with Microsoft, its partners and employees. :-) I'll try to keep up with events here, however...
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I’m going to be traveling to 5 cities (New York, Kansas City, Dallas, Denver and Chicago) with the Microsoft Communications Sector group that focuses on Telecommunications and Media and Entertainment companies. I will be doing sessions on Personalized Business Intelligence on the Microsoft platform...
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Like a lot of people out there wondering if SharePoint 2010 is worth the upgrades, all I have to say is a big YES. I have been playing around with the beta and the usability improvements are a big plus. Not sure how much I can talk about it, but we are busy at Extended Results building...
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Well we are having a great time at the Microsoft Worldwide Partner conference here in New Orleans. Microsoft has been showing off some of the great new features coming in Windows 7 and Office 2010. They haven't shown any information on SharePoint or PerformancePoint. They are keeping it all quiet...
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Had a question come up about how to use a SharePoint document library within PPS. Use the following steps to create it. Open SharePoint Designer and open your SPS site Create an ASP.NET page Drag and drop your document library onto the page Attach the SPS stylesheet so it looks pretty Save it to the...
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If you want your credentials to pass throughout all your servers for PPS to work correctly, you really need to enable Kerbero's. I found a couple great articles that explain this and the process to do it. Enjoy... http://blogs.msdn.com/martinkearn/archive/2007/04/23/configuring-kerberos-for-sharepoint...
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Since PPS M&A requirements SharePoint, I bet you find yourself doing a lot of SharePoint setup and development. I found the following link today that I have found kind of useful. http://sharepoint.microsoft.com/Pedia/pages/home.aspx
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PPS M&A requires AJAX v1.0 installed. Well, recently Microsoft released the .NET Framework 3.5 which includes the AJAX. Well, on a couple of my server rebuilds using .NET Framework 3.5, SharePoint runs just fine. But, when I install PPS M&A, it crashes the SharePoint page on startup. When I uninstalled...
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On a current project, we had a requirement to associate Tasks, Documents, Links and Commentary with Scorecards and KPIs. We decided to integrate with SharePoints custom lists as it just made sense to use SharePoints content management and storage features so we didn't have to redevelop it. Anyway, with...
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DSP Performance Canvas brings a completely new Web 2.0/ AJAX high performance platform which as our previous products is outstanding in Microsoft SharePoint, but in addition connects to Enterprise Search and automatically publishes Performance Dashboards for Mobile use. A new user interface lets an advanced...
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I wrote the following article because I have a need where we can't always build data warehouses and cubes for our scorecard solutions. With the introduction of PerformancePoint Server Monitoring, I can now source my data directly from a SharePoint list which makes development a heck of a lot easier....