What does this Peter Eb. guy know anyway?

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Well, I'm a developer working on the "Business Client" for the Planning side of Microsoft Office PerformancePoint Server (aka the PPS Add-In for Excel or the PPS Planning Add-In). My main area of responsibility has been the data-entry and workflow features. But I've been on the project since the beginning so I've touched a lot: I also did some of the early work on rendering and authoring; oversaw the Launch Job wizard; did the early work on our extensions to RDL where the add-in stores additional information than just the MDX queries. I've also spent a lot of time looking at performance, mostly around data-entry and matrix rendering performance.

So ok apparently I should know quite a bit about the PPS add-in. Since last November I've been spent quite a bit of time answering questions in the TechNet forums (https://forums.microsoft.com/TechNet/ShowForum.aspx?ForumID=1871&SiteID=17). But there's some things that are hard to describe there since you can't embed pictures and some things that get repeated. So I'll try to post a bit about questions I'm commonly asked... Specific comments on my posts are good here, but if you have more general questions or are looking for support I encourage you to post in the TechNet forums. Its quite an active community and there are many people who can help answer your questions.

I plan on starting with some authoring related topics using the Alpine Ski House sample environment or the all up BI VPC available from MSPP. (Not sure yet which environment will be most efficient for me to use all the time). I'll try to cover some of the more advanced topics: raw/custom MDX and member properties, design-time formulas, formatting and probably something about rendering performance. Hopefully after that I will be able to talk about SP1...

To get started I'll simply highlight a page our documentation team created that is a series of screencasts that go through the process of how to create a data entry form: https://office.microsoft.com/en-us/performancepoint/HA102474311033.aspx. Its just one of the many How-To's available at the PPS 2007 site: https://office.microsoft.com/en-us/performancepoint/FX102380591033.aspx

Comments

  • Anonymous
    April 09, 2008
    Hey Peter, Glad to see your blogging... looking forward to reading your posts! Cheers,
  • Adrian Downes