By Kevin Jobe on Thursday, January 29, 2009 10:17 AM

This is a statement from a seemingly more official document that can be viewed on the PPS TechNet site at:

http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/ppsplanning/thread/9d02d0d5-2fd3-4dcf-8517-45fb5ba9177e

The quote is from the last sentence of point 1- What will happen to PerformancePoint Server?:

"Performance management is a critical component of business intelligence and Microsoft will continue marketing and R&D investment in this area in future product releases."

Maybe there is another life for some type of Planning application?  Holding out hope that Microsoft will provide guidance soon on the vision of this statement.

 

By Kevin Jobe on 1/23/2009 6:19 PM

Apparently, the rumors are true.  This is the closest "official" item I've been able to find, but it does appear MS will abandon the Planning component for now:

http://blogs.msdn.com/bi/archive/2009/01/23/microsoft-bi-strategy-update.aspx

By Kevin Jobe on Thursday, January 22, 2009 10:02 PM

Many rumors were circulated today about PerformancePoint changing direction.  These existed of the following:

• PPS Monitoring & Analytics would be integrated into the next release of Sharepoint.
• PerformancePoint (PPS) Planning would be discontinuted, although supported through a service pack 3 released in 2009.

http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/ppsplanning/thread/001d424a-bc83-4f5e-afd5-76467c5b8908

Those are the only details I have.  Hopefully, they are not completely true, as it would be unfortunate to have the planning component discontinued.

Please feel free to update or add information as to the future direction of the PPS Planning application.