SharePoint® 2010 Business Intelligence 24-Hour Trainer

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Creating and Configuring PerformancePoint Services Applications

Using PerformancePoint in your SharePoint site requires installing the PerformancePoint Service application, as well as its dependencies, which in this case is the Secure Store Service. The Secure Store Service is a service used to store credentials for connecting to data sources using PerformancePoint.

In this lesson you learn how to install and configure the PerformancePoint and Secure Store service applications in order to enable PerformancePoint functionality on your SharePoint site.

ENABLING PERFORMANCEPOINT SERVICES

You have a series of steps to take in configuring PerformancePoint Services for use in a SharePoint 2010 environment.

Note that running the Farm Configuration Wizard will do many of the initial configuration steps.

The first step in installing PerformancePoint Services is to ensure that the Enterprise Features are installed. To do this, go to Upgrade and Migration in the Central Administration site, and click Enable Enterprise Features. This is necessary only once for any Enterprise Features. Once you have done this, enable these features on any existing sites by clicking Enable Features on Existing Sites. This will enable the Enterprise Features across all existing sites — you can do this manually if you want to enable the features only on some sites.

The next steps will be done for you if you run the configuration wizard, but are covered here for completeness. Return to the Central Administration ...