Monitoring Capabilities
Understanding what is happening at any given point in time within your organization is critical to effective performance management. You need to be able to:
Where do you go?
You can use Microsoft Office PerformancePoint Server 2007 to build highly visual and interactive scorecards and dashboards that can keep you up to date on what is happening and how it relates to the overall performance of your organization.
But the application’s functionality goes beyond simple monitoring and enables you to seamlessly move to analyzing and understanding why things are happening. You can zero in on off-target key performance indicators (KPIs) and quickly take steps to bring about change.
PerformancePoint Server 2007 provides you with two ways to display critical information: scorecards and dashboards. Here’s a look at each in a little more detail.
Scorecards
A scorecard is a visual representation of your company’s strategy. PerformancePoint Server 2007 helps make it easy to take critical metrics and build scorecards that map to your strategic goals throughout the organization. Scorecards offer a rich, visual gauge that everyone in your organization can reference to see:
Certified by the Balanced Scorecard Collaborative, PerformancePoint Server 2007 supports building scorecards that are based on a well-defined business process methodology or on your organization’s strategic framework.
Dashboards
A dashboard is a collection of graphs, reports, and KPIs that can help you monitor such things as progress on a specific initiative, the effectiveness of operations, and progress against sales forecasts. You can build a dashboard that supports a wide variety of users, from individuals to the company as a whole. Dashboards can contain information from scorecards (or subsets of scorecards), as well as graphs and charts, strategy maps, and unstructured information such as Microsoft Office Word documents.
When built correctly, dashboards can give you quick insight into company performance. With PerformancePoint Server 2007, you can design and deploy a range of dashboards—from those that contain a simple group of reports to those that contain multi-select filters, annotations, highly interactive analytic charts, and cascading scorecards.
Dashboards built with PerformancePoint Server 2007 are highly interactive and are deployed in a zero-footprint, no-download Web environment. You can deploy scorecards and dashboards built by PerformancePoint Server 2007 directly to Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007.
- Check progress against team and corporate goals.
- Learn how a division, subsidiary, or team is performing against corporate targets.
- See how individual goals affect overall company strategy.
Where do you go?
You can use Microsoft Office PerformancePoint Server 2007 to build highly visual and interactive scorecards and dashboards that can keep you up to date on what is happening and how it relates to the overall performance of your organization.
But the application’s functionality goes beyond simple monitoring and enables you to seamlessly move to analyzing and understanding why things are happening. You can zero in on off-target key performance indicators (KPIs) and quickly take steps to bring about change.
PerformancePoint Server 2007 provides you with two ways to display critical information: scorecards and dashboards. Here’s a look at each in a little more detail.
Scorecards
A scorecard is a visual representation of your company’s strategy. PerformancePoint Server 2007 helps make it easy to take critical metrics and build scorecards that map to your strategic goals throughout the organization. Scorecards offer a rich, visual gauge that everyone in your organization can reference to see:
- The performance of specific initiatives, business units, or the company as a whole.
- Individual goals in the context of larger corporate strategy.
Certified by the Balanced Scorecard Collaborative, PerformancePoint Server 2007 supports building scorecards that are based on a well-defined business process methodology or on your organization’s strategic framework.
Dashboards
A dashboard is a collection of graphs, reports, and KPIs that can help you monitor such things as progress on a specific initiative, the effectiveness of operations, and progress against sales forecasts. You can build a dashboard that supports a wide variety of users, from individuals to the company as a whole. Dashboards can contain information from scorecards (or subsets of scorecards), as well as graphs and charts, strategy maps, and unstructured information such as Microsoft Office Word documents.
When built correctly, dashboards can give you quick insight into company performance. With PerformancePoint Server 2007, you can design and deploy a range of dashboards—from those that contain a simple group of reports to those that contain multi-select filters, annotations, highly interactive analytic charts, and cascading scorecards.
Dashboards built with PerformancePoint Server 2007 are highly interactive and are deployed in a zero-footprint, no-download Web environment. You can deploy scorecards and dashboards built by PerformancePoint Server 2007 directly to Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007.