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Just a quick note to say that SP1 for PerformancePoint is likely to be available early May. I don't have any specific contents for it yet.

Microsoft have often mentioned their desire in the past for 'BI for Masses', giving the power of business intelligence to everyone who might need data to make a decision rather than just a few power analysts. For most users and lets face it lots of analysts too, their exposure to BI actually comes in the form of data presented to them in ...

PerformancePoint CTP4 is now available as of yesterday on the Connect download site. Courtesy of Microsoft, here are the new feature lists. PerformancePoint PlanningBusiness Modeler ·         Business Rule Templates.  Several additional rule templates have been ...

Whoops, forgot to mention the date for CTP4 which is primarily a Planning functionality release but will have some changes to Monitoring and Analytics as well, see previous blog http://blogs.conchango.com/davidfrancis/archive/2007/07/21/PerformancePoint-CTP4-Monitoring-and-Analytics-_2D00_-Some-more-Proclarity-like-features-promised.aspx

Alyson Powell Erwin at Microsoft has confirmed that the target RTM month for PerformancePoint is September 2007 with the General Availability release being several weeks later.

Just a quick note to mention that the following features have been promised for CTP4 M&A.'Sticky bit' filter selections - i.e. as you navigate across multiple pages, the filter selections from your previously viewed page will propagate to the next page you view preventing the user from having to choose them again.This does depend on ...

Due to being on-site with only a hot-spot connection, I haven't downloaded anything yet, but CTP3 is now available on Microsoft Connect. The planning functionality has remained the same as that in CTP2 with some hotfixes to follow but the Monitoring and Analytics has been improved. Some of the key ones are:Multipage dashboards.Addition ...

Microsoft's vision with PerformancePoint is that we will use it as an end to end solution with the AS cube being built by the Business Modeler and all analysis being done with the Monitoring and Analytics components (which are improving greatly with each CTP release - CTP3 looks like having some big chunks of Proclarity Dashboard functionality ...

On Thursday 26th April Conchango hosted meetings of the London SQL Server User Group and the London SQL Server BI User Group.  For those that aren't familiar with these groups they are external communities much like our own that are run independently by enthusiasts for the respective technology.  Both groups emanate from Tony's ...

I was asked last night whilst presenting Monitoring and Analytics in CTP2 to the UK SQL BI users group (www.sqlserverfaq.com) if I knew when CTP3 was due out. This from Jeff Zhu at Microsoft on the newsgroup. The date may be around July 20th. Most of changes in CTP3 of Planning will be bug fixes. We also have some security enhancement in the ...