Office PerformancePoint Server 2007 Home Page
Microsoft Performance Management allows companies to monitor, analyze, and plan their business as well as drive alignment, accountability, and actionable insight across the entire organization.
With Office PerformancePoint Server 2007 server:
- Business executives can drive accountability and alignment across and up-and-down the organization.
- Information workers can monitor, analyze, and plan performance management activities with an integrated and collaborative solution.
- IT managers can drive better adoption and compliance by enabling the companies to connect business intelligence and corporate performance management.
With Office PerformancePoint Server 2007, all users can better understand variances between plans and actuals, quickly analyze root-causes, and easily recast plans when necessary.
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Complete and integrated performance management application.
Office PerformancePoint Server 2007 is a single, integrated performance management application that provides comprehensive functionality including monitoring, analytics, and planning. Office PerformancePoint Server 2007 is designed to improve operational and financial performance in all aspects of the business across departments and all levels of the organization. With Office PerformancePoint Server 2007, users can monitor progress, analyze what is driving variances, and plan their business in the same application.
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Performance management for all business users.
Office PerformancePoint Server 2007 is designed to reach all business users by providing a user experience in the familiar and easy-to-use Microsoft Office system, including Microsoft Office Excel, Office Outlook, and Office SharePoint. In addition, though the scalability and high-performance of the Microsoft SQL Server Business Intelligence platform, organizations can afford to deliver the right information to the broadest number of employees so they can make better, faster, and more relevant decisions.
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Monitoring, analyzing, and planning across all business operations.
Office PerformancePoint Server 2007 enables all employees—executives, managers, and front-line employees—to align their performance with overall corporate strategy. All employees can use metrics, key performance indicators (KPIs), reports delivered to every desktop through intuitive scorecards and dashboards, and the familiar, easy-to-use Microsoft Office environment to manage the business understanding of how their performance aligns with personal and departmental goals and objectives.
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Advanced analytic and visualization capabilities.
Analysis is a core component of the performance management cycle and an organization is better guided if its business users can perform analysis that helps them better execute against corporate goals and objectives. With Office PerformancePoint Server 2007 Analytics, customers benefit from a single data model shared across monitoring, analytical, and planning activities. Office PerformancePoint Server 2007 Analytics guides information workers, so they can monitor in context, analyze, and understand complex information faster. All users can spot trends and opportunities easily and can better plan their business.
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Aligned and integrated corporate planning.
Office PerformancePoint Server 2007 has robust planning, budgeting, and forecasting capabilities. Centrally managed administration enables budget analysts to build models that contain the business rules, assumptions, calculations, and other business drivers that create the framework for plans and budgets for all levels of the organization. These models propagate budget forms based on Microsoft Office Excel for line managers to enter their data. These models ensure consistently applied business rules and assumptions that align to overall corporate goals.
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Shorter cycles and broader contribution.
Office PerformancePoint Server 2007 provides powerful workflow and collaboration functionality that streamlines planning, budgeting, and forecasting cycle times. Office PerformancePoint Server 2007 enables business users to configure rules that manage processes such as assigning tasks, managing budget creation, monitoring the status of submissions, and approvals. Office PerformancePoint Server 2007 simplifies the consolidation of multiple submitted budgets into a corporate rollup, shortening the performance management cycle time. Thanks to its tight Microsoft Office integration, Office PerformancePoint Server 2007 also helps organizations to deepen the contribution to plans, budgets, and forecasts.
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Spanning from single to enterprise-level models.
Office PerformancePoint Server 2007 uses a model-driven approach that helps users create corporate models for scorecards, analytics, and plans. These models allow maximum flexibility and can adapt to unique department-level performance management requirements. Hierarchical models' structures can accommodate unique departmental business models that synchronize with those above and below them in the organization structure, across departments, and up to the corporate level for a consistent view of organizational performance.
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Cross enterprise view.
Office PerformancePoint Server 2007 provides a complete perspective of business performance across enterprise functions such as finance, operations, sales, and human resources. Office PerformancePoint Server 2007 utilizes Microsoft SQL Server 2005 Business Intelligence platform to integrate information from across disparate enterprise systems and business functions to provide all users with a more strategic and forward-looking view of the business. Office PerformancePoint Server 2007 model-to-model functionality helps customers to map various business models within the same corporation so organizations can run their businesses with greater flexibility.
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Enhanced partnership between IT and business.
The Office PerformancePoint Server 2007 Business Modeler is a unique design and modeling component that enhances the partnership between IT and business analysts. While IT provides the infrastructure and security for crucial business applications, Office PerformancePoint Server 2007 Business Modeler enables business analysts to use their insight and knowledge of the business to manage roles, workflows, business rules, and information. Office PerformancePoint Server 2007 also features user friendly design and wizards that business people can use to setup their own business definitions, run queries, and create personalized scorecards without the need for IT support.
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Built on the Microsoft SQL Server 2005 Business Intelligence platform.
Office PerformancePoint Server 2007 takes advantage of the enterprise-grade reliability, high performance, and scalability of the SQL Server 2005 Business Intelligence platform. SQL Server 2005 delivers comprehensive capabilities for data integration and transformation (Integration Services); analytical query, calculation, and data mining (Analysis Services); and reporting (Reporting Services). These capabilities enable people at all levels of the organization to transform disparate enterprise data into shared information they can use to make decisions and take actions that improve business outcomes.
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