Updated: 2009-02-17
Microsoft Office PerformancePoint Server 2007 documentation is published in three places on the Internet — Office Online, TechNet, and MSDN — because it is focused on three audiences: Information Worker (end user), IT Professional (administrator), and Developer. There may be overlap between the audiences. For example, the IT professional who deploys Microsoft Office PerformancePoint Server 2007 may also be the person who helps users connect PerformancePoint Dashboard Designer to its data sources or who helps build MDX queries from a user's report.
To help you find the information that you need, this article provides links to PerformancePoint Server documentation by audience and publishing location. A description of the documentation is provided in a PerformancePoint Server documentation map (http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkID=103091&clcid=0x409) on Office Online.
Documentation by audience and location
The following table shows you where you can find PerformancePoint Server documentation.
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The links that follow may change over time as new documentation is published to reflect customer feedback, service packs, new releases, and additional instruction.
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End user (information worker) | Microsoft Office Online | Planning Business Modeler
PerformancePoint Add-in for Excel
Management Reporter Dashboard Designer
Dashboard Viewer for SharePoint Services |
IT Professional | Microsoft TechNet | Product evaluation
Planning and Architecture Guide
Deployment Guide
Operations Guide |
Developer | MSDN | Monitoring Server SDK– conceptual and class libraries
Extending Dashboard objects
Planning Business Rules Development Guide
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Glossary | TechNet: PerformancePoint Server glossary | |
Whitepapers | TechNet, Office Online, Microsoft BI | Performance tuning and capacity planning for Monitoring Server Performance testing guidelines Performance tuning scenario for Planning Server PerformancePoint Planning Design Basics How Intelligence Enterprises Deliver Performance Management |
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Readme files | Office Online: Planning, Office Online: Monitoring | What's new in PerformancePoint Server 2007 SP2 Known issues and workarounds |
Training | Office Online | Learning courses, webcasts, demos, and samples |
Microsoft Business Intelligence | Microsoft Business Intelligence Web site | Solutions for data warehousing, reporting and analysis, and performance management
Capabilities, resources, products, subscription to newsletter, partners
Solutions by role, industry, segment, and data |
Downloads | Office Online Downloads | Evaluation version of PerformancePoint Server 2007
Sample data for PerformancePoint Server Planning and Monitoring applications
Sample dashboards for various industries and government institutions
Solution accelerator with scorecards and dashboard for the IT department |
Community forums | TechNet forums | Planning
Monitoring and Analytics
Management Reporter
Data Integration Toolkit |
Blogs | The Microsoft PerformanctPoint Team Blog
B.I. the way…PerformancePoint Services for SharePoint Blog | Troubleshooting solutions, security, migration tips, business intelligence news, and more. |