Although little late, I thought of putting my views on the overall episode of PPS Planning being discontinued. Whatever happened, doesn't seem right, however the question is why it happened and the reason behind it. For us we don't have any other option than putting our views unless we get some specifics (which I don't think will happen) from peoples from Microsoft.
As per the information available the development of PPS started during 2003 timeframe under the code name of Biz# and it was finally released during end of 2007. So here we are talking about development time frame of around 4-5 yrs which is a considerable effort.
Now keeping in view the trend of delivering the Software as a Service (SaaS), Planning Module of PerformancePoint Server's underlying architecture was not targeted for SaaS (you might have already heard of 'Oracle Launches Oracle Hyperion On Demand'). However the the complete Monitoring & Analytics was delivered through Sharepoint Server which I guess MS has already spent some effort to bring into SaaS structure (the base of my assumption is the recently announced 'Microsoft Sharepoint Online'). So integrating the Monitoring & Analytics part to Sharepoint as 'PerformancePoint Services' looks to be safe step towards ensuring the availability of the application in SaaS model.
I have few more content that needs to be added to this post, I will do that as soon as I get some time.
These are my personal thoughts and I would welcome the comments correcting me if my understanding is not correct in this regard.
Thanks.
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3 comments:
PLanning will cease to exist as a standalone product. My bet, based on conversations with some folks at Microsoft, is that planning functionality will be folded into future Excel and SQL Server releases.
Would have made sense to bake Forecaster into the PPS stack if MSFT wanted to replace planning. Now - no real direction on Forecaster or Management Reporter.
While I understand the logic of letting the ledger package handle the consolidation and interco functions - trying to sell a performance management solution with that basic capability of forecasting and planning makes no sense.
I'm not sure how MSFT figures itself to be a CPM provider when the attitude is screw the forecasting - you can figure that out yourself - and when you do - then we'll sell you the tools to monitor via SharePoint. Competing against vendors that offer an all inclusive solution will not help MSFT further itself in the CPM market.
why discontinue planning after 5 years of effort. My oponion is MS doesnt understand how to sell this kind of solutions and the eco partners systems doesn't help much. Because they sell tools not solutions like a planning. I'm working with a MS partner that also is a Oracle Hyperion Partner and the partners companies is so differents in their BI/CPM knowledge.
Also i wonder why Microsoft is consider to revive a product like Forecaster or Enterprise Reporting (that in my understand was discontinued in favor of PPS) for cover the pps planning area. If it's true that made a point that MS know that is a good market for planning
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