Creating a dashboard in SharePoint 2010

To create dashboard in SharePoint 2010, you would use the newly integrated part of the SharePoint Server 2010 Enterprise called PerformancePoint. PerformancePoint Services is a performance management service that you can use to monitor and analysis your business. PerformancePoint Services enables you to create rich, context-driven dashboards that aggregate data and content to provide a complete view of how your business is performing at all levels.

When do you use PerformancePoint Services?

ü  When you want to use Context-driven Dashboards across system.

ü  You need Transparency & accountability.

ü  You need to Create KPI from different sources.

ü  You use Performance Point Services when you need Multi-dimensional analysis for root cause.

What will PerformancePoint give me?

It provides you with flexible and easy-to-use tools for building Key Performance Indicators (KPIs), Scorecards, Analytic Charts and Grids, Reports, Filters and Dashboards.

Each of these components are unique to PerformancePoint Services and provide functionality that interacts with a server component that handles the hard parts like data connectivity and security.

What is PerformancePoint Service application?

As you know that In SharePoint Server 2010 services are no longer contained within a Shared Service Provider (SSP) instead you can create a service application for each service and can share them with various existing web applications. To understand better, PerformancePoint Services will be one of the Service that will stay in the application server with a database something like “PerformancePoint Services Service database” in the Sql server box.

What is Secure Store Service?
This service application stores the password for the PerformancePoint Services unattended account.