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Microsoft Office PerformancePoint Server

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Microsoft Office PerformancePoint Server
Developer(s)Microsoft
Initial releaseNovember 2007 (2007-11)
Stable release
1.0 SP2 / 2008
Operating systemMicrosoft Windows
TypeEnterprise Performance Management
LicenseProprietary EULA
Websitewww.microsoft.com/business/performancepoint

Microsoft Office PerformancePoint Server is a business intelligence software product released in 2007 by Microsoft. Although discontinued in 2009, the dashboard, scorecard, and analytics capabilities of PerformancePoint Server were incorporated into SharePoint 2010 and later versions.

PerformancePoint Server also provided a planning and budgeting component directly integrated with Excel.

History

Microsoft offered Community Technology Preview releases since mid-2006. Early previews of the product were formed from Business Scorecard Manager 2005 and the Planning Server component. Acquisitions ProClarity and Great Plains brought additional analytics and planning/reporting capabilities, as well as companion products ProClarity 6.3 and FRx. PerformancePoint Server was officially released in November 2007.

Microsoft discontinued PerformancePoint Server as an independent product in 2009 and folded its dashboard, scorecard and analytics capabilities into PerformancePoint Services in SharePoint Server 2010.[1]

Monitoring Server Component

Monitoring and analytics capabilities, which include dashboards, scorecards, key performance indicators, various reports, strategy maps, and shared filters, are provided by PerformancePoint's Monitoring Server component. A Dashboard Designer application that is distributed from Monitoring Server enables business analysts or IT Administrators to:

  • create & test data source connections
  • create views that use those data connections
  • assemble the views into a dashboard
  • deploy the dashboard as a SharePoint page

Dashboard Designer saves content and security information back to the Monitoring Server. Data source connections, such as OLAP cubes or relational tables, are also made through Monitoring Server.

After a dashboard has been published to the Monitoring Server database, it can be deployed as a SharePoint page and shared with other users as such. When the pages are opened in a web browser, Monitoring Server updates the data in the views by connecting back to the original data sources.

Planning Server Component

PerformancePoint's Planning Server component supports a variety of management processes, including maintenance of logical business models, budget & approval workflows, enterprise data sources, and following Generally Accepted Accounting Principles.

Planning Server makes extensive use of Excel for line-of-business reporting and analysis, as well as SQL Server for storing and processing business models.

Management Reporter Component

This component is specifically designed to perform financial reporting and can read PerformancePoint Planning models directly. A development kit is also available to allow this component to read other models.

References

  1. ^ Weier, Mary Hayes (January 27, 2009). "Microsoft Makes Sweeping Changes To BI Software Strategy". InformationWeek.
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