The benefits of Office PerformancePoint Server 2007

Office PerformancePoint Server 2007 greatly improves visibility into company performance and the factors that are driving it. Office PerformancePoint Server 2007 also enables employees to monitor and act on performance variances.
Office PerformancePoint Server 2007 offers:

• Robust monitoring and analytics capabilities. Office PerformancePoint Server 2007 monitoring and analytics capabilities enable business users to see and understand performance issues quickly so they can make better decisions faster—all without the need for technical assistance. The fact that scorecards, dashboards, and analytics are all integrated into the same application makes deployment simple and helps drive alignment and accountability. Office PerformancePoint Server 2007 helps individuals to be more effective and the organization to be more agile.

• Improved planning, budgeting, and forecasting. Drive strategic objectives and goals into the planning and budgeting process to ensure departmental plans align with corporate strategy. Reduce the time and effort required through centralized control and administration and workflow that manages the creation and submission.

• Faster financial reporting and consolidation. Consolidate financial data from multiple general ledgers and reporting systems to achieve a single, integrated view of financial information. Robust integration and administration of financial information helps increase information accuracy and reduce the time and effort required for statutory and management reporting.

• Extends Existing IT Investments. Office PerformancePoint Server 2007 utilizes widely used and supported Microsoft technologies such as Windows Server, SQL Server, and Microsoft Office SharePoint Portal Server. This utilization enables companies to extend their existing investments and IT skill sets in these mission-critical enterprise technologies.