Rich and powerful analytic capabilities can give you answers to the "why" questions:

• Why did performance dip when you expected it to peak?
• Why is a sales representative underperforming?
• Why is a key performance indicator off-target?

Microsoft Office PerformancePoint Server 2007 can help you answer those questions because it provides a seamless experience between monitoring data and discovering the root cause of an issue. And this in turn means that you can take quick action to get performance back on track.

Advanced Visualizations

Office PerformancePoint Server 2007 provides out-of-the-box advanced visualization tools that help you gain insight into your data faster. Using visualizations like performance maps, decomposition trees, and other tools can help expedite your understanding of what is happening at any given moment in your organization.

The performance map functionality, for example, is built to help you quickly see where to focus your attention when dealing with a very large set of data, while the decomposition tree helps you discover the contributors to the data across the many dimensions of your business.

Data Sheets

Understand “Why” – Using Analytics in Office PerformancePoint Server 2007
Read how PerformancePoint Server 2007 turns business information into insight by simplifying how people receive and interact with information.