Features: Office PerformancePoint Server 2007

Office PerformancePoint Server 2007 features robust performance management capabilities including:

• An integrated application for performance management. Office PerformancePoint Server 2007 provides all of the functionality that is needed for performance management in a single, integrated application including scorecards, dashboards, management reporting, analytics, planning, budgeting, forecasting, and consolidation. With Office PerformancePoint Server 2007, users can better understand variances between plan and actual, quickly analyze root-causes, and recast plans when necessary. Customers can enter the performance management process at any point, benefiting from a common data model shared across monitoring, analytical, and planning activities.

• Business users shape their plans the way they think about their business. Office PerformancePoint Server 2007 provides business users with the ability to define, modify, and maintain their plans easily. The application handles the sophistication of the company business processes (rules, logic, calculations, and workflows) while helping more users contribute to the performance management process.

• Flexibility to handle complex environments. Office PerformancePoint Server 2007 uses a model-driven approach to make it easier to create corporate models for scorecards, analytics, and plans that can also be used for departmental-level performance management. By providing synchronized models up and down the organization as well as across departments, users can more easily get a consistent view of organizational performance.

• Reducing complexity for IT and for the business. Office PerformancePoint Server 2007 enables businesses to broadly deliver performance management across the organization by rapidly bringing together the power of Microsoft Office and the performance, scalability, and security of SQL Server. Office PerformancePoint Server 2007 is easy to use and less costly to deploy than traditional solutions. Office PerformancePoint Server 2007 also helps IT better support corporate governance through the ability the audit the performance management process as well as control versions and report on the processes.