Ok, onto session 1. This was basically a demo of Performance Point 2007 which could possibly see drastic changes on the Business Intelligence front.
He showed us how a scorecard should work along with a dashboard and demos of the Excel plugin and web based interface.
I picked a couple of things up from this one which were of interest.
Throughout the entire session I felt I was missing some functionality that ProClarity currently offers people wanting to analyse data. This was the ability to "slice" and "dice" by a particular dimension and look at changes over varying time. I asked the question...
"Our current users are familiar with the ability to quickly analyse data by slicing and dicing in proclarity, can this still be done in Performance Point 2007?"
The Microsoft answer....
"No but it should be coming in Version 2"
My follow up...
"When is Version 2 coming out?"
Microsoft Typical Answer...
"We don't know..."
I was slightly astonished by this lack of knowledge on the topic and realised straight away that Performance Point 2007 would not really be a comparable upgrade to ProClarity at least until version 2 is released.
Another interesting point is the lack of visualisations available within Performance Point 2007. We had just seen from the Key Note that Reporting Services 2008 offers some new visuals such as tachometer style dials which suddenly seemed to be missing from PP2007. So with PP2007 it looks like we are back to bar charts, line graphs and pie charts. HOW BORING! Well unless they were hiding all the good ones!?!?!?
For those not in the know with PP2007 here are some piccys of where we all went before the keynote started to keep you interested.
Amazing place!
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