What is a Decomposition Tree?

PerformancePoint Services for SharePoint Server 2010 introduces the decomposition tree, an interactive arrangement of bar charts that makes it easy to explore contribution relationships. It provides an effective alternative to the “Drill Down To” feature in analytic charts.

How is Decomposition Tree Useful?

The Decomposition Tree is particularly useful because it enables you to do all of the following in one simple, easy-to-use browser window:

1. Conduct root-cause analysis.
2. See how an individual value in a report or a scorecard that uses SQL Server Analysis Services data can be broken down into its contributing members.
3. Identify trends across individual members in a group.
4. See members in a group in descending order, listed top to bottom.
5. Choose which dimension you want to use for the next level of detail for an item in the Decomposition Tree.
6. See all the properties that have been defined in the database for an individual member (you can do this when you are at the lowest level of detail in a dimension).

The SharePoint Server Decomposition Tree uses Silverlight technology, so you must have Microsoft Silverlight 2.0 or 3.0 installed on your computer.

Take advantage of products in the SharePoint family including SharePoint Server 2010, SharePoint Foundation 2010, SharePoint Server 2007 and associated free SharePoint templates or web parts.

In a SharePoint Server environment, writing your own code usually means writing Web Parts. Web Parts amalgamate easily with the rest of your SharePoint site, leveraging its existing appearance, organization, security, and data management. What’s more, Web Parts are reusable. You can write them once and use them in as many pages as you like.

Consequently, building Web Parts in SharePoint Server 2010 and SharePoint Foundation is one of the most common tasks you will undertake as a developer. SharePoint 2010 and Visual Studio 2010 enable you to create Web Parts quickly and easily.

Web Parts work differently than ordinary Microsoft ASP.NET pages do, and much more differently than legacy ASP pages. Thus, developing and deploying a Web Part requires a different approach and a somewhat different tool set.

Web Parts are important components of the SharePoint family of products that include Microsoft SharePoint Server 2007, and SharePoint Foundation 2010, products that may include free SharePoint web parts and templates.

In a SharePoint Server environment, writing your own code usually means writing Web Parts. Web Parts amalgamate easily with the rest of your SharePoint site, leveraging its existing appearance, organization, security, and data management. What’s more, Web Parts are reusable. You can write them once and use them in as many pages as you like.

Consequently, building Web Parts in SharePoint Server 2010 and SharePoint Foundation is one of the most common tasks you will undertake as a developer. SharePoint 2010 and Visual Studio 2010 enable you to create Web Parts quickly and easily.

Web Parts work differently than ordinary Microsoft ASP.NET pages do, and much more differently than legacy ASP pages. Thus, developing and deploying a Web Part requires a different approach and a somewhat different tool set.

Web Parts are important components of the SharePoint family of products that include Microsoft SharePoint Server 2007, and SharePoint Foundation 2010, products that may include free SharePoint web parts and templates.