PerformancePoint
Server Evaluation
Edition
Planning Capabilities
It can require so much time, work, and data to create strategic plans, sales forecasts, cost allocations, and budgets that many companies only update this information on an “as needed” basis. In many organizations, this effort is so painful that these plans function as post-mortem reports on what happened instead of up-to-date guides that provide visibility into the current performance of the organization.
Instead, imagine building your plans using a familiar interface and an application that offers a low-cost, flexible way for everyone who needs to participate in planning to do so, while providing you with the infrastructure and control to easily reuse the critical plans on an ongoing basis.
An Integrated Performance Management Application and a User-Friendly Interface
Microsoft Office PerformancePoint Server 2007 can help you drive consistency throughout your organization, span planning needs across your enterprise, extend your investments in Microsoft, and provide every employee with a stake in the corporate performance management process.
Office PerformancePoint Server 2007 makes it easy to:
PerformancePoint Server 2007 delivers on these goals first by utilizing Microsoft Office Excel as the end-user interface for planning, budgeting, and forecasting. With PerformancePoint Server 2007, Excel is where people contribute, interact, and build reports. And Excel is where end users ultimately write their changes back to a central data model that contains data on actuals side-by-side with planning data.
PerformancePoint Server 2007 data models are built to support the range of business models used in your organization, from sophisticated financial modeling to straightforward budget planning.
Built on top of the proven enterprise capabilities of Microsoft SQL Server 2005, PerformancePoint Server 2007 ensures that your performance management application can scale to meet a large user base.
SQL Server helps you easily bring together data from virtually any source across your financial and operational environment. The actual and historical information is fed into the centralized dynamic model next to the planning data, along with business definitions and rules such as allocations, budget seeding, “what if” scenarios, and more.
All of this information is presented securely in Excel, where individual contributors can use their existing knowledge and familiarity with the software to collaborate and contribute in the planning process.
Instead, imagine building your plans using a familiar interface and an application that offers a low-cost, flexible way for everyone who needs to participate in planning to do so, while providing you with the infrastructure and control to easily reuse the critical plans on an ongoing basis.
An Integrated Performance Management Application and a User-Friendly Interface
Microsoft Office PerformancePoint Server 2007 can help you drive consistency throughout your organization, span planning needs across your enterprise, extend your investments in Microsoft, and provide every employee with a stake in the corporate performance management process.
Office PerformancePoint Server 2007 makes it easy to:
- Import data from multiple sources, including multiple general ledger systems.
- Easily feed data automatically into a centralized, trusted data store.
- Embed standardized business rules and processes.
- Provide everyone with a single interface.
- Ensure that people only see appropriate and relevant information.
- Track changes automatically.
- Manage planning and budgeting processes.
PerformancePoint Server 2007 delivers on these goals first by utilizing Microsoft Office Excel as the end-user interface for planning, budgeting, and forecasting. With PerformancePoint Server 2007, Excel is where people contribute, interact, and build reports. And Excel is where end users ultimately write their changes back to a central data model that contains data on actuals side-by-side with planning data.
PerformancePoint Server 2007 data models are built to support the range of business models used in your organization, from sophisticated financial modeling to straightforward budget planning.
Built on top of the proven enterprise capabilities of Microsoft SQL Server 2005, PerformancePoint Server 2007 ensures that your performance management application can scale to meet a large user base.
SQL Server helps you easily bring together data from virtually any source across your financial and operational environment. The actual and historical information is fed into the centralized dynamic model next to the planning data, along with business definitions and rules such as allocations, budget seeding, “what if” scenarios, and more.
All of this information is presented securely in Excel, where individual contributors can use their existing knowledge and familiarity with the software to collaborate and contribute in the planning process.