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Microsoft Office PerformancePoint Server 2007 delivers a broad set of features and functionality to support the diverse performance management needs of today’s fast-paced business environment, including data monitoring and analysis of key performance indicators throughout the enterprise. Here is a look at the key product benefits:

Key Objective	Key Activity	Key Capability
Monitor key business drivers and drive alignment: spans from personal performance dashboards to formal methodology-based and cascading scorecards	Provide visibility of corporate strategy and goals to all users. Deliver a more comprehensive view of performance from across structured and unstructured data sources throughout the business. Align business activity by driving strategy and visibility across divisions and operations. Make scorecards a part of all activities to enable informed decision making in line with business drivers.	Create interactive and cascaded scorecards and dashboards with an ability to drilldown into details. (KPI’s in a hierarchy roll up their values to show summary status). Support scorecards from variety of data sources (SharePoint, Excel, SQL SSAS, Excel Services and relational databases). Support structured as well as unstructured information tied to the scorecards and dashboards.
Provide rich visual context	Create interactive strategy maps linked to KPI data and which display KPI status. Provide users with rich dashboard filters to dynamically filter all report views displayed on the dashboard. Link individual KPIs to analytic charts and grids to analyze root causes and find driving factors.	Create parameterized dashboards. Views and reports can be linked to the scorecard, parameters can be passed to the scorecard, and views update with the scorecard. Create interactive strategy maps linked to KPI data and support clicking through strategy maps to additional reports. Create Web-based dynamic and interactive analytical charts and grids with capabilities like drill-to-detail, drill up/down, cross-drill, expand/collapse, and link these to the scorecards and dashboards. Sort, filter and rank on scorecard columns from the Web user interface (Internet Explorer).
Drive accountability and collaboration: Assign owners to key business metrics to drive accountability throughout the organization.	Assign owners for KPIs at various levels and across divisions and operations. Allows users to collaborate with each other through adding comments to KPIs on dashboards.	Assign and display owners to KPIs on scorecards. Store comments on a per-scorecard, per-cell, per-page filter basis from the Web user interface (Internet Explorer). Export scorecards, analytical grids and charts, and strategy maps to PowerPoint 2007, Excel 2007 and SQL Server Reporting Services.
Ease of creation and fast time to deployment.	Familiar Microsoft Office 2007 look and feel. Fast time to delivery and ease of administration Designed for collaboration and reuse.	Off-line authoring capabilities: Scorecards and dashboards can be defined in the client while being disconnected from the server. Design and deploy dashboards using pre-built layout templates and an intuitive drag-and-drop interface. Business users can create and centrally manage business logic using a wizard-driven interface with no coding and IT support.
Web-based analysis provides users with rich analytical functionality out of the box, minimizing help required from IT staff	Integrate analytical views into your SharePoint applications. Navigate data easily through multidimensional slice and dice, drill-across, drill-to-detail, root-cause analysis, and centralized business-logic definitions. Enable guided and contextual analysis through tight integration of KPIs and analytics in the dashboard.	Data navigation capabilities include multidimensional slice and dice, drill down/up, cross-drill, data sort and filter, expand/collapse, show/hide, root cause analysis, and Web client for ad-hoc query and analysis. Analytical grids and charts support AJAX technology to provide rich user experience on the Web. Analytical views can be integrated into your SharePoint applications.
Predictive analytics to see trends and forecast key metrics.	Leverage powerful data-mining capabilities from SQL Server 2005 to forecast metrics and spot trends.	Support predictive analytics of scorecard data and generate predictions for the KPIs on the scorecards. Select number of periods and other forecasting parameters from within the dashboard.
Advanced data visualizations make it easy for users to understand complex information faster and discover highlights, trends and opportunities.	Render data visually with decomposition tree, performance map, and perspective views.	Advanced visualization views include decomposition tree, performance map, and perspective view. Decomposition tree allows quick view of the drivers of performance up/down and across the organization. Performance map combines elements of space, size, and color to provide a cohesive map of the business. Perspective views allow users to quickly analyze large amounts of data and show the relationship between two measures.