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In 50% of our projects, we are asked if there are any options for printing a PerformancePoint Dashboard.  The reason for this is when our customers want to print a dashbaord, they want a rich looking report without all the SharePoint clutter.   Also, they want to print easily to different paper sizes or orientations.   ...

One request we get all the time is ''give us the ability to drag and drop and create our own reports''.  PerformancePoint really doesn't have any end-user report writing features to do that.  Sure you can drill across and down, but you really can't drop in our own measures and dimensions on a blank report and save it out for later ...

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 document library on the ...

My good friend Bruno did the demostration of a nice looking business intelligence application.  Some PPS, Live Maps, Dundas and Excel Services.   I like the branding of the portal and the live maps.  Pretty nice.

Well, with the financial markets melting down around the world, Microsoft kicked off its business intelligence conference.  These are not the best pictures, but I could use my camera phone to capture some pictures.  The below picture is from the keynote kickoff of the event.

http://blog.seattletimes.nwsource.com/techtracks/2008/10/03/next_week_microsoft_business_intelligence_conferen.html The Seattle Times has an article about DATAllegro coming out at the Microsoft Business Intelligence conference. I look forward to checking out the keynote and finding out more about the solution offering.   I'll try and ...

Just a couple days away from the Business Intelligence conference.   I'm hoping they preview or show some direction for the Office 14 product which includes PerformancePoint.   I'll try and post some ''Things you should know'' when I'm at the conference.  http://www.msbiconference.com/Pages/default.aspx

We had a need on how to add a second axis on an Analytic Chart and I found the following link.   Very helpful...  http://blogs.msdn.com/performancepoint/archive/2008/02/12/creating-a-second-y-axis-on-an-analytic-chart.aspx

While Performance Point offers a wide array of ''Out of the box'' filter solutions, one of the holes that we found was the inability to perform a user input search.  While working on a project, we encountered a situation where the members we wanted to list blew way past the upper limit of the PPS filters.  While one solution would be to ...

 Example of Issue:  Exec Owner, and Update Frequency both custom KPI Properties repeat illustrating an instance for both time members FY08 and FY09. The desired effect is to show the YTD Target and Actual repeat for FY08 and FY09 but render the Properties just once.   Steve Handy, a member of the PPS Product Team shared the ...