Microsoft

Microsoft Corporation is comprised of hundreds of internal organizations and business groups, each focusing on a particular aspect of the business. The business process that is used to connect all the different organizations within Microsoft is dubbed “The Rhythm of Business.” However, connecting these distributed organizations and ensuring their goals are aligned through every level of the enterprise presented a challenge. Consequently, senior leaders and decisions makers were concerned Microsoft may be missing out on opportunities to enhance business performance through more effective cross-organization initiatives and greater accountability at all levels of the enterprise.

Read the two case studies below to see how Microsoft is using Office PerformancePoint 2007 Server to overcome these challenges and drive continually improved business performance.


Microsoft Driving Corporate Performance with Office PerformancePoint Server 2007

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Microsoft Sharpening Forecasting with Office PerformancePoint Server 2007

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Energizer

Solution: Planning, forecasting, foreign exchange conversions
Industry: Consumer packaged goods manufacturing

Energizer saw the need to support a broader community of business users in the budgeting and forecasting process. The company used Microsoft Office PerformancePoint Server 2007 to build a solution that streamlined the business planning process, improved the quality and consistency of source data, and enabled in-depth and flexible analyses based on various information hierarchies that were not possible in the previous system.

"PerformancePoint Server 2007 is a single, comprehensive environment. From a cost perspective, it really is the most ideal solution because we were already within a Microsoft environment. We didn’t have to start from scratch to create the underlying structure because much of it was already in place." —Randy Benz, CIO, Energizer

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Oticon A/S

Solution: Financial consolidation, budgeting, planning, forecasting, and reporting
Industry: Manufacturing

Oticon chose Microsoft Office PerformancePoint Server 2007 to satisfy its financial consolidation requirements while integrating all the key finance functions it had previously identified, such as budgeting and forecasting. Using Office PerformancePoint Server 2007, Oticon developed a solution that would automatically consolidate financial results from all of its companies while allowing users at both local and enterprise levels to work in Microsoft Office Excel, the undisputed tool of choice in finance.

"We wanted to move away from a portfolio of non-integrated solutions and go with a single vendor that could provide the full package … Microsoft is a big vendor that can deliver the technology, performance, and familiar tools." — Ulf Hilton, Group Finance Manager, Oticon A/S

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Skanska

Using Performance Point Server 2007, Skanska USA built a solution that enhanced data usability and improved both the timeliness and accuracy of the forecasting, planning and budgeting. PerformancePoint Server gave users quick, easy access to accurate, consistent data and gave them the ability to create a wide variety of reports that enable flexible, in-depth analysis.

"With PerformancePoint, project teams can still count on Excel’s flexibility, familiarity and ease-of-use, but they’re also able to rely on PerformancePoint to bring the data to them quickly and easily – it’s right there – they no longer have to go looking for it." -Andy Hough, director, IT, managed services, Skanska USA Building

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