New White Paper on Performance Tuning with PerformancePoint Server 2007
"PerformancePoint Planning Server Performance Tuning"
Executive Summary:
"Planning Server is part of Microsoft® Office PerformancePoint™ Server 2007. This white paper is for analysts and IT professionals who want guidance about Planning Server scalability capabilities and the number of users that can be served. Considerations for hardware planning and software tuning are also covered."
Introduction:
"Microsoft® Office PerformancePoint™ Server 2007 was designed as an infrastructure that includes everything between the server client tier and the Microsoft SQL Server 2005 databases and SQL Server 2005 Analysis Services cubes. It includes a run-time environment, APIs, scripts, configuration files, administrative functions, and a management console interface.
"This document describes the results of tests to measure scalability of Planning Server. The results of the tests confirm the following:
· Planning Server supports large numbers of business users, even when deployed on a conventional configuration consisting of four physical servers.
· Planning server performs well when additional server resources are added.
· Planning Server asynchronous implementation enhances performance and scalability.
"The test scenario described a typical corporate planning budgeting cycle with one data entry model. It had a large data set and was designed to provide unique security for a large number of users to ensure each component’s caching engine was working effectively."