Hi All,
We are starting on a tool called Proclarity, which is used on top of Microsoft SQL Server Analysis Services. Having this as the basic idea, I’m not clear on some information as listed below: Any clarification would be very helpful.
1 Having SSRS (SQL Server Reporting Service) available to perform reports, what is Proclarity for Reporting Services. What it does by integrating with SSRS and its advantages. How is it different from Proclarity Web/Desktop professional.
2 Having Business Scorecard manager from Microsoft, what is the purpose of Proclarity KPI Designer, its advantages/disadvantages over BSM? Still proclarity has one more add-on Proclarity for BSM (not sure why we need this)
3 Proclarity Selector – Purpose of this tool?
4. Why is that Proclarity Dashboard server? We can create a view of dashboard using Sharepoint. Not sure about the advantage of this.
Regards, Kart
Hello!
1. This is a project that is added to the SSRS designer in BI-DEV studio. It will start up a ProClarity professional interface in Reporting services and also help you with formatting the report.
2. The KPI-designer is a tool for building and saving KPI:s in ProClarity Analytics server. Its main use is to build KPI:s on top of SSAS2005 cubes. Business scorecard manager is a tool for building balanced scorecards. The main difference is that BSM can use weights for KPI:s and also create hierarchies for KPI:s. BSM can do this with more data sources than ProClarity.
3. This tool helps you with building named sets, like the top 10 best selling products.
4. PDS is a dashboard server. Sharepoint can do a little more than that. The main advantage with PDS is that it is easy to create and visualize KPI:s from Analytics server, without having to write MDX.
HTH
Thomas Ivarsson
|||Hi Thomas,
Thanks for the Info.
1. When you say Proclarity for Reporting Services.is a project used for formatting reports, how it benifits us. We can do formatting in BI studio of SSRS.
2. When you say BSM can create Hierarchies for KPIs, it is like by adding a KPI to scorecard and adding Row Members (in scorecard view). Is my understanding correct. Doesn't this come automatically in proclarify when we define a KPI using a measure - because the we would have defined hierarchies in cube itself.
3. I hope it is added as a add-on (menu item in toolbar) of Proclarity Designer
4. Got it.
Regards, kart
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1. The ProClarity designer in SSRS2005 is better than Reporting Services own. It is a matter of taste.
2. This is from memory, but in BSM you create objectives and place one or serveral KPI:s in that objective. This objective is a KPI that is defined by the KPI:s mapped to it. In ProClarity and SSAS2005(the KPI-tab) the KPI:s you define are not presented in hierarchies but flat. Measures do not have hierarchies in SSAS2005.
3. Selector is placed on the toolbar. It is a part of the Business Logic Server if you install that.
Regards
Thomas Ivarsson
|||Hi Thomas,
Thanks again and I got good clarity on Proclarity now.
2. Can I conclude like -KPI definition through BSM is better than doing the same using Proclarity KPI Designer and Defining KPI in the Cube itself. (But, still go ahed using Proclarity for Detailed analysis of any value that is defined by KPI)
Regards, Kart
|||Hi,
In my humble opinion, you should not prefer to use BSM KPIs when you plan to use SSAS2005 as target.
BSM KPIs have many advantatges if you need to define KPIs based on ODBC datasources, Excel or just type the values manually.
However, if the source for the KPI data is SSAS, I will define the KPI at SSAS, making it centrally managed and reusable in other places (like SSRS), and import the KPI tp BSM (using the KPIUtil tool).
HTH,
Jordi Rambla
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|||Hello Jordi,
I found your blog/contact information searching Google.com for BI Consultants with ProClarity expertise. Are you looking for a new opportunity? If so, we would like to consider you for a Senior BI job opportunity. If you are not looking at this time, then I will continue to save your contact information and re-contact you at a later date. We are not a staffing company, we are the employer.
Catapult Systems is a Microsoft Gold Partner with locations in Austin, Dallas, Houston, San Antonio and in Tampa, Florida. We were named the #2 BEST COMPANY TO WORK FOR in Texas by TEXAS MONTHLY Magazine (January 2006) and named the #1 Medium size COMPANY TO WORK for in Austin by the Austin Business Journal for 2005. Please visit our website to learn more about us – www.catapultsystems.com.
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I hope to hear from you soon!
Best Regards,
Lynsey Moore
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www.catapultsystems.com
CATAPULT SYSTEMS INC.
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