Configuring Performance Point Service

Step 1: Click on Start button and go to SharePoint 2010 Central Administrator tool as shown below –

This step will open a web site. From this website, click on ’Create site Collections’ from ‘Application Management’ group as shown below :

This will open a Create site Page. From that page, choose a web application under which you want to create a site collection. Once you choose a Web Application, give the title to your site collection and choose a URL. Optionally you can write a site description as shown below:

Now select a site template from Enterprise Group as shown below:

And at the end, provide your site collection administrator primary account with ‘Domain\Administrator’ , check the domain account and click OK as shown below:

This will create a site collection as shown below:

Now click on the link and you will see your Business Intelligence center site as shown below :

Step 2 : Once your site is ready, browse the site and hover your mouse on the ‘Create Dashboard’ in right hand section. You will see the links as shown below –

Click on the link ‘Start using PerformancePoint Services’. This link will take you to a page where you can download a Dashboard Designer Tool by clicking a button ‘Run Dashboard Designer’ as shown below:

This will download a Dashboard Designer tool at your client side. This is a Click Once Application. This tool now will help you to design the Data Sources, KPIs, Scorecards, Reports, Filters and Dashboards. The tool looks sishown below: