Microsoft Office PerformancePoint Server 2007

Microsoft Performance Management shows readers best practices for managing business performance using Office PerformancePoint 2007 and related Microsoft tools. They show how to leverage PerformancePoint with other key technologies, including SharePoint Server, SQL Server Business Intelligence tools—for example, SQL Server Analysis Services—and Office Excel and Excel Services. The authors—PerformancePoint product managers at Microsoft—show how to use PerformancePoint for common performance management scenarios, including scorecarding, dashboarding, reporting, analysis, planning, budgeting and forecasting. Microsoft Performance Management uniquely serves the needs of both the business user who is interested in driving business performance as well as the technical IT professionals asked to implement these solutions using Microsoft technologies. Specific end-user scenarios begin by describing the business requirements and objectives and end with a detailed technical guidance for implementing performance management solutions.