Creating Application in Planning Administration Console

Microsoft Office Performance Point Server 2007 (PPS 2007) is an integrated performance management application that provides monitoring, analytics, and planning capabilities. It helps businesses Managers in various ways. It can be
a. Monitoring Goals
b. Monitoring Business Performance
c. Identifying and Analysing the Issues well in advance
d. Budgeting, Planning and forecasting the business performance by defining the KPI's

Lets talk about how to start creating an Application in PPS 2007.
Getting started with PPS 2007, First step is to create the Application using PAC (Planning Administration Console)
Note: All the components should be installed required by the PPS 2007.

You can open the PAC by typing the URL http://localhost:46788/ in the web browser.46788 is the default port where the PAC site gets created while installing the Planning server and you can view the properties of PAC site by exploring IIS(Internet Information Server) under Default Web Site item.

Once connected to the PAC, the user will be able to create the Application, Model Site, Users.
It is very important to identify the users and roles at this moment so that the role assignment can be done appropriately. You have to define/Assign the roles based on the business requirements and Organization structure. The proper role assignment will be useful in accessing the Business Model which is the next step for the User to create using Planning Business Modeler.

Planning Server includes four predefined administrative roles, which support the separation of responsibilities within an organization:
· Global Administrator
· Modeler
· Data Administrator
· User Administrator
Each role enables its members to perform a specific set of tasks within a specific scope. These roles are configured in Planning Administration Console. Administrative roles are used to grant appropriate permissions to key personnel in an organization. The ability to perform tasks in Planning Business Modeler is determined by your roles.

In PAC the user will have to specify the Application Database Name (Mandatory) and Staging Database name (optional). This will be the Database which will be referred by the Model in the later stage.

There are lots of other properties which the user can set in PAC. But in case if the other properties are not set then the Application will define the default one.

If the Users and Roles are not defined properly in PAC for an application then there will be issues in creating/Accessing the model in Business Modeler. I will talk about some of the issues in my next session.

To get more information on Planning Server of PPS you can browse the below mentioned link: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb905546(TechNet.10).aspx