And as if by Magic

Seems my curiosity to see (well watch) the new roadmap for BI has been answered, see The BI Blog

Kind of sounds like a reporting server with no mention of real analytics, apart from Excel which I don't think counts. Maybe the news of all of this will reignite the market for an analytics tool for analysis services. The return of Panorama Novaview perhaps, who happen to be running a webinar on An Alternative BI Solution to Microsoft PerformancePoint

Chris Webb also raised some good points on Excel in his blog More thoughts on the death of PPS Planning