PerformancePoint Server 2007

Monitor, analyze, and plan your business with PerformancePoint Server

Performance Management with Performance Point

PerformancePoint 2007:

Overview
Features
Benefits
Technologies
How to get started

Overview

Built upon SQL Server 2005 and delivered through Office SharePoint Server and Excel 2007, Microsoft PerformancePoint Server 2007 is a Business Intelligence application that puts business critical information in the hands of users to monitor, analyse and plan.

Using the Microsoft Business Intelligence platform, PerformancePoint Server 2007 can help you build an enterprise-grade, scalable performance management application. Using SQL Server 2005 for data integration; an analytical data model that includes a calculation engine and data mining; and a highly flexible and scalable reporting platform to broadcast information to a wide audience. All of this is delivered via the Web in Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007, providing everyone with a central place to get their business intelligence information.

Complex data can be presented simply through Microsoft Excel or SharePoint webparts to allow effective monitoring, analysing and planning of your business. Out-of-the-box tools can be used to simply build customised dashboards and scorecards giving users the information they need to make the right decisions. Data can be manipulated in Excel and written back to OLAP cubes allowing users to consider multiple forecasts based on countless different scenarios.

Features

Monitor
You can use Microsoft Office PerformancePoint Server 2007 to build highly visual and interactive scorecards and dashboards that can keep you up to date on critical business information and how it relates to the overall performance of your organisation. You be easily alerted to information that shows where the business is meeting, or failing to meet specified goals.

Analyse
Step from merely monitoring data and dig deeply into the reasons why a part of your business is performing in such a way through the Analystics PerformancePoint Server offers.

Plan
Plan, budget and forecast by plugging in multiple scenarios based on endless different variables. Share your plans in a consistent framework with other users by writing the data back to the OLAP cubes.

Benefits

Scalable and reliable - built upon SQL Server 2005
Flexible - models can be simple or highly complex
Easy to deploy - integrated into Internet Explorer through SharePoint Portal Server and Excel 2007

Technologies

SQL Server

SQL Server is Microsoft’s enterprise level database platform. We use it as the preferred back-end database for all windows applications we develop. This ensures the best level of availability, security and scalability of your application.

Office SharePoint Server

Microsoft Office SharePoint Server is Microsoft's solution to allow organisations to manage content, search, collaboration, and Business Intelligence across multiple business locations in a cohesive manner.