Performance management offers business users the potential to improve business performance. Office PerformancePoint Server 2007features robust scorecarding capabilities designed to provide cost effective business insights to all employees, leading to better, faster, and more relevant decisions With an intuitive, Web-based user experience, scorecarding helps transform how people utilize information. Business users can better understand what is happening in their business and align their actions with corporate strategy.

With Office PerformancePoint Server 2007, business users can build and manage personalized scorecards without the need for IT support. And Office PerformancePoint Server 2007 scorecards take advantage of SQL Server 2005 to integrate critical data from multiple departmental systems. This integration provides employees a balanced perspective across enterprise departments such as Finance, Operations, Sales, and Human Resources, resulting in a more strategic and forward looking view of business. Office PerformancePoint Server 2007 Scorecarding is also certified by the Balanced Scorecard Collaborative.

Office PerformancePoint Server 2007 Scorecarding Features and Benefits

Reach All Business Users. Office PerformancePoint Server 2007 Scorecarding enables all-encompassing performance management by providing all business users with critical information. Office PerformancePoint Server 2007 Scorecarding has the scalability and high performance to cost effectively deliver timely and actionable information to the broadest number of employees. This scalability and performance helps companies improve business performance across the organization because all employees get the insights they need to make better, faster, and more relevant decision.

Align Business Activity across the Enterprise. To ensure optimal company performance, every employee—executives, managers, and front-line workers—must align their actions with overall company strategy. Office PerformancePoint Server 2007 provides each employee with intuitive, personalized scorecards that display key performance indicators (KPIs) and other critical information to help employees understand how their actions can maximize company performance.

Enhance the Partnership between Business and IT. Information Technology (IT) departments often spend a great deal of time and effort providing business users with information. Office PerformancePoint Server 2007 features a user-friendly design, wizards, and other features that business users can use to run queries and setup their own scorecards. These features free up IT professionals and help business users get the information they need faster.