PerformancePoint is one of the SharePoint services that was released for the first time with SharePoint 2007. It is a dashboard and data visualization tool for Microsoft OLAP cubes. To install PerformancePoint, you need to install SharePoint first. This means that you cannot install PerformancePoint on a nonserver operating system because a SharePoint server can only be installed on a server operating system.
After installation of SharePoint, you will need to configure and enable the PerformancePoint service application. Finally, you can create the Business Intelligence site where you can design dashboards using Dashboard Designer, and deploy them onto the BI site. In the following sections of this chapter, we will go through each of these steps to illustrate how to create and design dashboards using PerformancePoint Dashboard Designer.
For all PerformancePoint examples in this chapter, you will need an operating system server edition to be able to install SharePoint...