Hello Everyone,
Due to un-expected technical Issues I was unable to make new blog entries for about a week.So please accept my appologies and although one week later, It's a great thrill for me to talk about the long awaited and finally it was released.Performance point Server SP1 has been released. Download from the following Links: PerformancePoint Server 2007 Service Pack 1 (x86):
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=28B1F86B-B7F2-4215-8BC9-8507FF8831&displaylang=en
PerformancePoint Server 2007 Service Pack 1 (x64):
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=6245C354-9191-4C4D-8C0C-0D6C778AF8&displaylang=en
What to expect:
Performance Point Server 2007 - Planning:
· Excel add-in Performance Improvements:
Clear Changes after workflow action (faster recalculation option).
What-If Analysis Support
· Improvements in opening a new workflow
· Kerberos Support
· User Dimensions
· Post submission discard option
· Data Integration Toolkit (Data Import wizard now can be used to harvest any data provider).
Performance Point Server 2007 – Monitoring:
· Setting Up default report views for conditional display.
· Support for multi selection on Filters (SSRS + VISIO)
· TI Enhancement: Local Settings + "The day after" fix.
· Larger MDX statement support (no more 1000 char. Limit)
· Windows 2008 Server support
· Partial support for SQL Server 2008 (Would be fully support in SP2).
· Better Filters performance!!!!
We've been testing this feature for the past two weeks. An Improvement of 50% in performance using filters with large number of members was noticed. (Subjected to hardware issues etc).
For further Information, Please read the Performance Point Server Team blog at:
http://blogs.msdn.com/performancepoint/default.aspx
Enjoy
Eran