Creating a Business Intelligence site
In order to use the PerformancePoint Dashboard Designer to create reports and scorecards, you first need to have a Business Intelligence site configured on your SharePoint server. Once you have this, you will be able to access the PerformancePoint Dashboard Designer, and you will also have a place that you can store all of your custom charts, scorecards, and reports.
In this recipe, we will show how you can set up a Business Intelligence site if you don't have one already configured.
Getting ready
Before you start on this example, you will need to make sure that you have access to the SharePoint Central Administration console. To check this carry out the following steps:
Access your server that has SharePoint installed on it.
From the program menu, you should be able to find the SharePoint Central Administration console in the Microsoft SharePoint Products group.
If you cannot access this feature, then you may need to get help from your SharePoint administrator...
