Richard and Greg bring Erin Welker back to talk about Performance Point Planning. Performance Point Planning is part of the Office Server suite that ties SQL Server, Analysis Services, Integration Services and Reporting Services together to provide budget and forecasting services. You can read Erin's blog at www.sqlblog.com/blogs/erin_welker.

Erin has spent 25 years in Information Technology development, management, database administration and business intelligence. She began working with SQL Server in version 1.11; Analysis Services, SSIS, DTS, and Reporting Services since their inception. She was privileged to be a member of the Project REAL team, and has written whitepapers on data warehousing in SQL Server 2005. Her current focus is PerformancePoint Planning.