Figure 6-2 The Create ribbon in Dashboard Designer also allows for the quick creation
of many report types.
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proceeds in most cases to connect to the appropriate data source and form the query.
In other cases, the reports are simply links to external items such as existing web
pages, ProClarity views, or SQL Server Reporting Services reports.
Analytic Charts
Analytic Charts are the preferred way of creating chart-based reports in
PerformancePoint Server. This is because the charts are completely thin client
and do not require the installation of any components on the client machine, unlike
some of the other report types. There are several options for the types of charts that
are available: traditional bar charts, two types of stacked bar charts, and two types
of line charts. Other report types include many more options, as you??™ll see when I
discuss the PivotChart.
The Analytic Chart does include some analytic capabilities, but it??™s actually
more of an end user tool; analysts will find that the charts provided in ProClarity
are far more powerful and expose full analytical features. Still, the limited analytics
capabilities of the Analytic Chart (and as discussed next, the Analytic Grid) should
meet the needs of most users in an organization. This limited analytic capability
includes the single most important feature, which is the ability to drill down to lower
levels of detail within the chart.
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