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Using PerformancePoint Services - SharePoint Tutorial
From the course: SharePoint 2010 Essential Training
Using PerformancePoint Services
Perhaps the most significant addition that there has been to this 2010 version of SharePoint is the addition of PerformancePoint Services, which you typically get to by creating a Business Intelligence Center. On the Business Intelligence Center, if you go to the Create Dashboards section, you will see a link to Start using PerformancePoint Services. Now PerformancePoint used to be a completely separate product from SharePoint. It had both a server-side product and a Windows application for designing what it called Dashboards. This is what we are trying to do in SharePoint now and Microsoft made PerformancePoint part of SharePoint 2010. It's a very significant product and it really will feel to you like you are learning a completely different product. Now PerformancePoint used to have its Windows application for designing dashboards, and in fact, that's still the case with this version of SharePoint. When I create the Business Intelligence Center and then I go to this page for the…