Microsoft Office PerformancePoint Server 2007

PerformancePoint Server 2007

provides all of the functionality that is needed for performance management in a single, integrated application including scorecarding, analytics, planning, budgeting and forecasting that can reach across all employees in the business and across Finance, Operations, Marketing, Sales and Human Resources. Office PerformancePoint Server 2007 enables businesses to broadly deliver performance management capabilities by providing an application that is easy to use and less costly to deploy than traditional solutions. Office PerformancePoint Server 2007 provides employees with critical visibility into the factors impacting the business, allowing them to make decisions and take actions that drive better business outcomes.

The information is to each user through personalised web-based scorecards or through the familiar and easy-to-use Microsoft Office products they use every day.

Features include:

Pervasive Performance Management

Enables businesses to broadly deliver performance management capabilities by providing a Performance Management application that is easy to use and less costly to deploy than traditional solutions so that all employees can contribute to improving business performance.

Business rules owned by business users

Provides business users with the ability to define, implement and manage the business logic that controls how performance management is applied to the business. Business rules are centrally managed with auditability of changes to business rules or to business data.

Flexibility to handle complex environments

Uses a model driven approach to make it easier to create corporate models for scorecards, analytics or plans that can also be used for departmental level performance management as well. By providing synchronised models up and down the organisation as well as across departments, users can more easily get a consistent view of organisational performance.

Automated creation and maintenance

Allows users to implement performance management solutions without the need for programming which speeds deployment and reduces implementation complexity. Powerful deployment capabilities make it easier to quickly deploy new versions of business rules while utilising the power of SQL Server for data management and control.