Hands On Lab: Building Your First Dashboard with SharePoint 2010 PerformancePoint Services

Version: 1.0

Description

This Hands On Lab shows how to build a complete solution with SharePoint 2010 PerformancePoint Services that includes KPI's, reports, scorecards and dashboards.

Overview

This lab will create a PerformancePoint Services dashboard based on the Analysis Services Reseller Sales cube.

Objectives

The objectives of this exercise are to:

  • Create a PerformancePoint Data Source
  • Import an Analysis Services KPI
  • Create a PerformancePoint Scorecard, Report, Filter and Dashboard
  • Deploy a PerformancePoint Dashboard
  • Explore the PerformancePoint Dashboard

System Requirements

You must have installed the following items to complete this lab:

Setup

All the requisites for this lab are verified using the Configuration Wizard. To make sure that everything is correctly configured, follow these steps.

Note:
To perform the setup steps you need to run the scripts in a command window with administrator privileges.

  1. Launch the Configuration Wizard for this lab by double-clicking the Dependencies.dep file located under the Source\Setup folder of this lab. Install any pre-requisites that are missing (rescanning if necessary) and complete the wizard.
  2. The PerformancePoint Services service application must have its Unattended Service Account configured, and the Analysis Services database created during setup must grant this account at least read access to the Reseller Sales cube.

Cleanup

  1. There is no need to cleanup if you intend to continue the sequence of labs in this training kit.
  2. To restore the original state of the AdventureWorksDW2008R2 SQL Server database and delete the Sales Analysis Analysis Services database, execute the Cleanup.cmd script located under the Setup folder in the Source folder of this lab.
  3. Delete all PerformancePoint content saved in the SharePoint Data Connections library and PerformancePoint Content list.
  4. Delete the Reseller Sales Dashboard dashboard created in the SharePoint Dashboards library.

Exercises

This Hands-On Lab comprises the following exercise:

  1. Creating the Reseller Sales Dashboard

Estimated time to complete this lab: 30 minutes.