Time Intelligence in PerformancePoint Services

PerformancePoint Services, part of SharePoint Enterprise 2010, can be used to create sophisticated Business Intelligence (BI) dashboards. A common inclusion in BI Dashboard designs are time filters, allowing users to control the date range of the dashboard. For example, filter the product sales graph for the last 3 months.

PerformancePoint Services includes a feature known as Time Intelligence. Put simply Time Intelligence is the ability to use expressions such as Last Year, Last 6 Months, Yesterday, This Financial Year etc . The Intelligence lies in the ability of the system to recognize the expression, and apply it to the current date in order to derive the correct date context for reports, significantly improving the usability of the system from an end-user's perspective.