PerformancePoint Server 2007 started out life as Business Scorecard Manager and was a separate server product with client access licenses (CALs). In 2008, Microsoft announced it was being discontinued as a standalone product. The Scorecarding, Monitoring and Analysis capabilities have been merged into SharePoint 2010 as an Enterprise site collection feature -  PerformancePoint Services. The Planning module has been retired and the source code released under restricted license for ongoing use (unsupported). The Forecasting module has been moved into a new Management Report product for Dynamics ERP.

Following the announcement in January 2008, if you were licensed to use SharePoint Server 2007 Enterprise Edition you could also use Performance Point Server 2007.

Useful Links

News

• Microsoft discontinues PerformancePoint Server - Jan 2009
• Planning Server capabilities gets extension – June 2009

Installing PerformancePoint Server 2007

When installing on Windows Server 2008 64-bit, install everything as 64-bit (except for Office and IE)

• Steps to install in a Windows Server 2008/SQL Server 2008 environment – blog post
• Installing and configuring PerfPoint 2007 in a farm part 1 – Mark Macrae, Apr 2010
• Installing PerformancePoint Server for demos – Chandima.Net blog post, March 2008
• Question on TechNet Social + links to 64-bit download – TechNet
• PerformancePoint Planning Readme – microsoft.com, last updated Dec 2008
• Planning Server pre-requisites (Win Svr 2003/SQL Server 2005 environment) – TechNet
• Microsoft documentation

Configuration & Use

• Creating a scorecard – SQL tips, March 2008
• Trend Analysis with Analysis Services KPIs – MCS Developer, May 2008 (Google Cache)
• Using Excel Services Reports with PPS – Dan English blog post, Jan 2010
• Creating a UDC using InfoPath – InfoPath blog, Feb 2007

Sample Data

• PerformancePoint Server 2007 Samples – Oct 2008
• Monitoring Sample Data – Sept 2007 (refs Project REAL)
• Monitoring Server Sample updated PDW cube – MSDN blog, Jan 2008
  Note: Monitoring Sample dashboards won’t execute query on original PDW cube
• Planning Sample Data – Sept 2007 (Alpine Ski House)
• Contoso Demo Data – Oct 2008
• Project REAL – Sept 2006

Archive

• Installing Business Scorecard Manager 2005 – blog post, March 2006

PerformancePoint and BI Blogs

• PerformancePoint Services team blog – MSDN blogs
• Jason Morales’ MS BI Update – MSDN blogs
• SQL Server BI Blog – Paul Turley, MVP
• BI-Lingual – Nick Barclay
• BI Blog – Dan English
• PerformancePoint Server 2007 – Troy Scott (blog discontinued Apr 2009)