Microsoft shifts direction in Performance Management
With Microsoft's decision to discontinue further development of PerformancePoint Server as of the middle of 2009, Business & Decision continues to offer customers planning solutions. We have been in the Performance Management space since the beginning of B&D, and our expertise in this area allows us to easily adapt to the needs of our clients without PerformancePoint in the future of planning solutions.
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Planning, Monitoring & Analytics - The Business & Decision View
The Business & Decision view is that planning, monitoring and analyzing forecasts and budgets against key metrics should be a continuous, cyclical process, not just an annual budgeting exercise with periodic measurement against plan. Tracking and managing performance and aligning business change needs to be a process owned by empowered teams and individuals.
SharePoint allows business users to build models and assign rights and responsibilities for the setting, upkeep and adjustment of budgets and forecasts in Excel. Performance of targets and KPI’s is visualized using integrated dashboards and scorecards in SharePoint. Root cause analysis is made possible with the Analytics and reporting capability currently available in Microsoft's Business Intelligence products. Annotations, audit logs and Reporting Services management reports combined with role and responsibility based security complete the offering from the corporate governance perspective.
Business Success Across All Business Operations
SharePoint analytical capabilities provides employees with critical visibility into the factors impacting their business, allowing them to make decisions and take actions that better drive business outcomes. This application empowers the broadest number of employees - executives, managers, and front-line employees - to contribute to plans and have better access to tailored information, helping them take actions that improve customer relationships, reduce costs, and increase revenues. Progress can be monitored and analyzed through personalized scorecards through the familiar and easy-to-use Microsoft® Office environment.
SharePoint also enables businesses to broadly deliver performance management capabilities across the organization by rapidly bringing together the power and ease of use of Microsoft® Office and the performance, scalability, and security of Microsoft® SQL ServerTM. Customers are able to extend their Microsoft investment and reap the benefits of an application that is easy to use and less costly to deploy than traditional solutions.
Office
SharePoint Server 2007 features robust performance management capabilities including:
- Flexibility to handle complex environments
- URobust monitoring and analytic
capabilities
- Reducing complexity for IT and for the business