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Microsoft PerformancePoint Server
PerformancePoint Server - ‘BI
for the Masses’
PerformancePoint Server (PPS) is the new flagship
Business Intelligence and Performance Management (BI/PM)
product from Microsoft. Released at the end of September
2007, PPS incorporates three main areas of
functionality: planning, analysis and monitoring.
Building on the data warehousing and analytical
capabilities of SQL Server 2005, PPS enables users to
manipulate data in familiar environments such as Excel
and browser based interfaces. The reporting and
analytics tools in PPS are designed to be used by a
broad base of users in any organisation, not just power
users and analysts.
Planning
Many finance professionals have experienced the pain of
unstructured budgeting and planning processes based on a
variety of spreadsheets, documents, data extracts etc.
The planning functionality in PPS allows for the
streamlining of such processes by developing centrally
controlled models for Planning, Budgeting and
Forecasting. Data is collected via input forms which are
designed and deployed using Excel. Workflows can then be
created for the submission, approval and annotation
process. Finally, reports can be consumed via Excel or
SQL Server Reporting Services. To read more about
Performance Point Planning functionality click
here.
Analysis
Analytical tools within Performance Point facilitate
data visualisation, reporting, drill down, drill across
and graphical presentation of data. Users can also
easily customise their own personalised dashboards or
access shared corporate or departmental dashboards using
a browser. To read more about Performance Point
Analytics functionality click
here.
Monitoring
The monitoring capabilities of PPS enable actual
performance to be tracked against corporate plans and
goals. Using familiar techniques such as scorecarding
and traffic lighting, users can see their data
translated into clearly understandable performance
indicators. To read more about Performance Point
Monitoring functionality click
here.
As a company with ten years of experience in Reporting
and Analytics, Ciall are the ideal partner to work with
Irish companies to clarify Business Intelligence
requirements and identify how best to exploit this new
Microsoft technology. For more information, or to
arrange a demo of the software, please contact the BI
team in Ciall on 01 417 9683
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