If you have worked with Performance Point Server before this change in strategy is not all that surprising. The product is ( at least the Monitoring and Analytics) is very focused on delivering items via SharePoint. In moving Performance Point Monitoring...
Have you ever thought, "Gee, I would really like to play with some of the cool BI technologies, but I really would rather not go out and install everything". "Plus, I would really not have to try and come up with a bunch of sample data...
All the videos from the Office Developers Conference have been posted on MSDN. If you want to know all the latest on the changes coming in Office System 2007 this is a great place to start. I think this is really cool that they have made all of these...