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Office PerformancePoint Server 2007 provides all of the functionality that is needed for performance management including scorecards, dashboards, management reporting, analytics, planning, budgeting, forecasting, and consolidation. The application reaches all employees, across all business functions (finance, operations, marketing, sales, and human resources).

  1. Add annotation chart
  2. Unnecessary message box on deploy first time
  3. Wrong Scorecard selected on deploy
  4. No Defaults on Deploy for Server
  5. No Validation for Reporting Server
  6. Error message not that noticable, No back button
  7. Scorecard DPE extension is not different
  8. Web Report missing extra colum

  1. Add annotation chart

    Office Performance Point 2007 has a great new feature, annotate, which allows you to put comment on group of numbers or on top point.We suggest it to be able to have that number to show in a chart, or able to put annotate chart.

  2. Unnecessary message box on deploy first time

    When deploying a Scorecard to Reporting Services you receive a message box informing you that you need to refresh. We suggest that instead of displaying the message box that the deploy is actually done automatically. This is a confusing out of the box experience.

    Deploy Message Box
    Figure: Error message of "Monitoring Server List is Empty"

  3. Wrong Scorecard selected on deploy

    When right clicking on a scorecard and deploying, by default it selects the first scorecard in the deploy list and will result in the wrong scorecard being deployed accidentally.

    Default Scorecard Incorrect
    Figure: Incorrect scorecard selected by default

  4. No Defaults on Deploy for Server

    The settings screen does not show any defaults for Report Name (this could be taken from the scorecard name), or Reporting Server details. Suggestion to put in http://localhost/reportserver if unknown, or last deployed Reporting Server location.

    No Server Name defaults
    Figure: No default values entered for servers

  5. No Validation for Reporting Server

    There is no Tick or Cross when a Reporting Server location is entered to indicate if this is correct or wrong. The user will not know until after attempting to deploy the scorecard.

    No Report Server Validation
    Figure: No Validation for Report Server

  6. Error message not that noticable, No back button

    There is no Tick or Cross when a Reporting Server location is entered to indicate if this is correct or wrong. The user will not know until after attempting to deploy the scorecard.

    See Rules to Better UI - Do you clearly show a pass, fail or warning?

    Reporting Services Deploy Error
    Figure: Error message is not that visible

  7. Scorecard DPE extension is not different

    The following error lists that the ScorecardDPE extension is not registered successfully. This extension name is identical to another older product Business Scorecard Manager 2005. Subsequently searching the web for instructions on how to register bring up the wrong details. The version should have been 'ScorecardDPE2' or even better 'PerformancePointScorecardDPE'

    Scorecard DPE extension
    Figure: ScorecardDPE extension is not registered correctly

  8. Web Report missing extra column

    After exporting a scorecard to Reporting Services the scorecard is rendered, however it is missing the Person Responsible on the web version

    Missing Person Responsible
    Figure: Missing Person Responsible field on the web version
    Has Person Responsible
    Figure: Person Responsible field in Scorecard

Acknowledgements

Adam Cogan
Justin King