Hi,

a little curiosity: I could say that the dashboard build with Power BI is the response on Office 365 respect to the PerformancePoint on SharePoint on premise, isn't it?

Thanks

I think you could say that, but I look at the Power BI stuff as more of a replacement/overhaul of PerformancePoint, I've never felt that PerformancePoint was very well supported in terms of ongoing development although I have heard rumors that it will still exist in 2016

http://whitepages.unlimitedviz.com/tag/sharepoint-2016/

But, I consider it a dead product.

• Proposed as answer by Seth Moupre Wednesday, July 29, 2015 2:43 PM

Hi Pscorca,

There are many Microsof tools that can be used for dashboard. SQL Server Reporting Services, Excel, PowerView, Report Builder and PerformancePoint. Different tools are used in different scenario.

PerformancePoint Dashboard Designer is a tool that you can use to create dashboards, scorecards, and reports and publish them to a SharePoint site. Dashboard Designer is part of PerformancePoint Services in Microsoft SharePoint.

The Power BI Designer is a new companion application for Power BI.  It is a standalone Windows Desktop application that can downloaded from the Power BI site.

https://support.office.com/en-us/article/Getting-Started-PerformancePoint-Dashboard-Designer-88a12097-833c-40ee-86b4-beddd65506e6
http://www.jamesserra.com/archive/2015/01/power-bi-designer/

Regards,

Sadly, PerformancePoint does seem to be following the standard Microsoft trajectory of "it wasn't adopted by tons of people (because we didn't really bother advertising it), so we'll de-prioritize it, stop adding major features, and just kind of let it peter out, leaving the early adopters stranded"

How often does Microsoft think they can put half-assed effort into supporting a product before we all get tired of being burned by their broken promises? How do I know that in five years PowerBI won't be left on the ice floe while some other shiny new technology is pushed at us? 

I predict the launch of some kind of "Big Data Dashboard" in a few years, and they won't mention PowerBI again. Except Nadella will have pushed everyone to Office365, so running your own platform to keep the features you've adopted won't even be an option any more. 

I would say that as long as Nadella is CEO, Power BI will prosper and be supported, it was the first product released after he became CEO. The issue with PerformancePoint is that it was more of the same type of BI product that has overpromised, under delivered and failed to deliver real business value for 20+ years. The problem is rooted in the complexity of the BI toolsets where middleman report and dashboard writers are required to take requirements from end users, build the reports and dashboards, which the end users take, export to Excel, slap on some more data and calculations and eventually get to an answer. This simple won't do in a cloud-based world where democratization of data is paramount. PerformancePoint was a decent toolset that really isn't geared toward the new realities of data within modern enterprises.

>PerformancePoint is that it was more of the same type of BI product that has overpromised, under delivered and failed to deliver real business value for 20+ years. 

Agreed, but - part of that is that, as usual, it was rushed out the door, then for v2 they slapped a bunch of new features on it without addressing user complaints, and now it's stagnating. 

If they had taken the time to build on it, improve integration with Reporting Services, Report Builder, Excel Services, PowerPivot, and PowerView, they had a strong foundation for a BI toolset that could cover from strategic/executive down to tactical/power-user. But so long as they keep throwing the tools out the door, depending on us to make them work, and then leaving us in the lurch just when things get interesting... [sigh] 

It's just like TV shows - some shows explode from the first episode (Lost, Survivor), but other shows take time to find their audience. The "What have you done for me this quarter?" investor pressure is killing the industry.