How to obtain the PerformancePoint Dashboard Designer for SharePoint 2013

There is a lot of documentation floating around the web concerning the use of SharePoint 2013's PerformancePoint Dashboard Designer, but I had to do quite a lot of searching before I was able to determine exactly how you obtain it in the first place.  Here are the steps:

If you don't have a Business Intelligence Center site collection located on your farm, you will first need to create one via the following steps:

1. Open Central Administration on your SharePoint 2013 environment
2. Select Application Management
3. Under Site Collections, select Create site collections
4. Choose the appropriate web application where it should be installed
5. Enter an appropriate Title and URL for your new site collection
6. For Select experience version, select "2013"
7. For Select a template, click on the Enterprise tab and select Business Intelligence Center
8. Select an appropriate Primary and Secondary Site Collection Administrator
9. Click OK

Once your Business Intelligence Center site collection is in place, use the following steps to obtain the PerformancePoint Dashboard Designer:

1. Log on to the Business Intelligence Center site collection via your browser
2. In the left navigation panel, select PerformancePoint Content
   
   
   
   
3. Click on the tab that reads "PERFORMANCEPOINT"
   
   
   
   
4. Click on the Dashboard Designer icon
   
   
   
   
5. Click the Run button when prompted
   
   
   
   

Once the installation is complete, the Dashboard Designer will open and you can now begin working on all those other tutorials you found.