PerformancePoint Server Developer Portal

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.

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. The 2007 release of the SDK includes overview topics, code examples, and updated references for programming with PerformancePoint Monitoring Server.

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. Develop custom rules in the PerformancePoint Expression Language (PEL), SQL, or MDX, or take advantage of the many templates that you can use for business rules.

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? In Planning Business Modeler, 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? n Planning Business Modeler, 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. More...

Data Sheets Data Sheet for Office PerformancePoint Server 2007 – Planning Get a brief overview of the dynamic planning, budgeting, and forecasting capabilities in Office PerformancePoint Server 2007. Data Sheet for Office PerformancePoint Server 2007 – Monitoring Get a brief overview of monitoring capabilities in Office PerformancePoint Server 2007. Data Sheet for Office PerformancePoint Server 2007 - Analytics Get a brief overview of analytic capabilities in Office PerformancePoint Server 2007. Data Sheet for Office PerformancePoint Server 2007 – Management Reporting See how Office PerformancePoint Server 2007 can help you easily consolidate and share key business data across your organization. Blogs PerformancePoint Team Blog Learn more about PerformancePoint Server, get the latest news from the product team, and find links to other resources. Publishing PerformancePoint Server in an Extranet - White Paper Now Available PPS Planning - How to display and launch assignments from SharePoint Creating PPS KPIs based on SSAS KPIs PPS Planning - How to run a Currency Translation Job Dashboard Basics Courses Now Available