My colleagues on the business intelligence (BI) side of the SQL Server world have been excited about Microsoft Office PerformancePoint Server 2007 for more than a year, but many of my friends on the relational side are still saying "PerformancePoint what?" The PerformancePoint Server 2007 Community Technology Preview (CTP) 3 shipped a month ago and PerformancePoint Server 2007 will be launched September 20, 2007.

My colleague Douglas McDowell, who writes a BI-focused column for SQL Server Magazine called "Eye on BI," has weighed in on PerformancePoint Server 2007 a few times in