Tuesday, June 30, 2009

Beautiful Christian Sympathy Card

measures calculated in Excel 2007: here's how PerformancePoint

Excel 2007 (and its instrument of pivoting) is a great tool for analyzing and visualizing data, especially when used in conjunction with an infrastructure based on Microsoft SQL Server / Analysis Services.

However, historically, the main shortcoming of this approach as' the impossibility to build calculated measures. For example, how can I just find the difference between two measurements if someone has already provided the difference between the available measures in the cube that I'm viewing?

PTPower is a solution (free) to solve this problem.



Monday, June 29, 2009

Are Scorpio And Cancer Compatible?

: Microsoft makes available the source code

part of a broader strategy to encourage partners to adopt and evolve the framework Microsoft for Economic and Financial Planning , previously marketed as PerformancePoint and currently available to 'internal SharePoint, Microsoft announced that it has made available the source code of the component Financial Planner.

"This is unsupported source code That customers and partners can use to support or change PerformancePoint Server Planning Functionality . Derived object code files can be distributed to end users with Microsoft SharePoint Server Enterprise Client Access Licenses. "

Here the direct reference to Microsoft release and instructions on how to get the source code.