PerformancePoint Server

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What Is PerformancePoint Server?

Microsoft Office PerformancePoint Server is an integrated application for performance management. With PerformancePoint Server, you can manage a single, integrated application. Users can create reports and scorecards that show performance at a glance, or create rules that help them better understand variances between planned and actual performance. Analysts can quickly analyze root-causes and recast plans when necessary reaching all business functions (finance, operations, marketing, sales, and human resources). Customers can enter the performance management process at any point, benefiting from a common data model shared across monitoring, analytical, and planning activities.

PerformancePoint Server 2007 provides all the functionality that is needed for performance management. PerformancePoint offers features that not only help analysts monitor and analyze organizational performance, but also do critical planning, forecasting, and financial reporting. In addition, PerformancePoint features make it possible for you to assign tasks such as data input and quality review to other users.

SDK Documentation and References

PerformancePoint Monitoring SDK

Use the PerformancePoint Monitoring SDK to help customize and integrate your own dashboard object extensions such as custom reports and data sources, wizards, and user interface extensions.

PerformancePoint Planning Business Rules Development Guide

Get information about how to use PerformancePoint Planning to develop business rules that perform complex planning, budgeting, and forecasting, or financial operations such as consolidation.

How Do I ... in Planning Business Modeler?

How do I write a business rule?

A business rule is a short program that performs a business task. Business rules are at the heart of Planning Business Modeler. You can create business rules that allocate resources, calculate forecasts, or find key performance indicators (KPIs).

How do I set up a model for shares calculation and consolidation?

PerformancePoint Planning Server can perform complex consolidation operations that meet internal and external reporting requirements. You can set up a model that accurately reflects the organization structure, including subsidiary relationships and minority ownership.

How do I create an association to move data between models?

You can define a formal association between models so that you can precisely map data movement between source and destination, and manage the way the data is aggregated.

How do I export data with an outbound rule?

You can publish semantically rich data that you developed in PerformancePoint Server to external data stores.

How do I use an assumption model?

You can store logical groups of baseline data in assumption models. These assumption models can be referenced by other models and they are typically used for forecasting activities. Assumption models streamline modeling activities, and help promote data integrity.

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