Speaker: MVP Peter Myers of Solid Quality Mentors

PerformancePoint Services (PPS) 2010 is the next-generation performance management application from Microsoft. Delivered as a SharePoint 2010 service application, it is primarily designed to define rich Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) and scorecards that provide monitoring capabilities.

To complement the monitoring capabilities, a comprehensive suite of report types let you define interactive reports to deliver analytic capabilities. You can then assemble the monitoring and analytic capabilities to produce dashboards.

In this session, see how to define data sources, KPIs, scorecards, reports, and filters to produce an interactive PerfomancePoint dashboard.

You will learn:

• What KPIs are and how they can be defined
  
• How PerformancePoint Services (PPS) can define rich KPI and scorecard definitions
  
• Why Analysis Service cube data source are strongly preferred for building PPS dashboards
  
• How PPS Dashboard deliver monitoring and interactive analysis
  
• Why the PPS can be used for more than just KPIs and scorecards

Peter Myers, SQL Server MVP, is with Solid Quality Mentors and specializes in OLTP database design and development, DBA support, and data warehousing/business intelligence with SQL Server.

He provides architecting, development, implementation, and support services at all tiers of a multi-tier application.

Peter has a broad business background supported by a bachelor’s degree in applied economics, and he extends this with MCITP, MCSD, MCDBA, MCSE, and MCT certifications. He provides mentoring and technical training internationally and shares his enthusiasm for Microsoft technologies by presenting at technical events, including the PASS Summit, TechEd (US and Australia), and VSLive.