The monitoring piece uses Dashboard Designer and works using a disconnected
model. This is similar to how Visual Studio 2005 is used to create web applications.
The developer can work locally on a development machine, even though the
application will eventually run on a server. Visual Studio 2005 allows developers
to create web applications on a development machine and test the application fully
before deploying it to the server. Similarly, Dashboard Designer allows developers
to work on the files on a local machine and preview them using Internet Information
Figure 2-1 This is a PerformancePoint Server dashboard containing a scorecard and
multiple reports.
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Server before deploying the dashboard to a server running SharePoint. This model
will be examined in Chapter 5.
Analysis with PerformancePoint Server
In mid-2006, Microsoft purchased ProClarity Corporation. ProClarity was the
creator of the most popular third-party analytics tool for Analysis Services (the
most popular tool overall was Excel, but its analytics capabilities fell far short of
ProClarity??™s.) ProClarity actually had several products, the primary two of which
were the ProClarity Desktop Professional and the ProClarity Analytics Server. The
Desktop Professional application was a Windows application while the Analytics
Server was a web application that included a thin client analytics tool that mimicked
almost all features of the Desktop Professional.
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