Microsoft SharePoint 2010 PerformancePoint Services : Understanding PerformancePoint Dashboard Designer Prerequisites

Dashboard Designer is a .NET Framework ClickOnce application that requires the .NET Framework 3.5 SP1. It also has a few other optional components that enable additional functionality that users can install on their own, including the following:

• Visio 2007 or 2010 Professional for creating or editing strategy map reports

• Report Viewer 2008 for creating or editing SQL Server Reporting Services reports

You can determine which service pack of the .NET Framework is installed on a client machine by querying the HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\NET Framework Setup\NDP\v3.5 Registry entry for the service pack value. The service pack value should be 1 or greater than 1.

Visio 2007 or 2010 Professional is required on the client machine for creating or editing strategy maps. Strategy maps are reports that enable you to connect KPI data to Visio shapes to visualize data. Due to interoperability requirements from the .NET Framework, it is important that the processor architecture for the operating system match the processor architecture for the version of Visio that is installed. If the processor architecture does not match, it will not be possible to edit strategy maps with that particular client machine. It is possible to work with strategy maps by adding them to dashboards and creating links between the strategy map and other PPS objects on the dashboard editor, but you cannot create new ones. The following table summarizes the client processor architecture compatibility for Visio and Windows (what combinations work on the client machine).