Intelligent Enterprise: PerformancePoint At Last: Q&A with Microsoft’s Alex Payne and Michael Smith
Intelligent Enterprise discusses what PerformancePoint Server 2007 delivers and what critics are saying with two key executives who helped deliver PerformancePoint Server 2007.
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Gartner Research: The Impact of Microsoft Office PerformancePoint Server 2007 in CPM
In this report Gartner evaluates Microsoft Office PerformancePoint Server 2007.
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The OLAP Report: Preview of PerformancePoint Server 2007
Microsoft prepares its bold pursuit of the planning and consolidation market. "There is now no doubt that Microsoft is deadly serious about taking a very big bite out of the performance management market."
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Gartner Research: Microsoft Office PerformancePoint Server 2007 Coming Soon to a Desktop Near You
Gartner evaluates Microsoft’s entry into the corporate performance management suites market with Office PerformancePoint Server 2007.
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AMR Research: Microsoft’s Looming Impact on the Business Intelligence and Performance Management Market
Read this recent AMR Research market outlook report detailing how Microsoft’s significant investments in Business intelligence and Performance Management will change the market. "Buyers say Microsoft will have significant impact on their BI/PM strategy"

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Microsoft Gains Momentum in Business Intelligence Market as It Prepares to Launch Major BI Offerings
Industry recognizes Microsoft’s achievements in the BI market while customers eagerly anticipate Microsoft Office PerformancePoint Server 2007 and Microsoft SQL Server 2008.
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Microsoft Office PerformancePoint Server 2007 Butler Group Review
Butler Group believes that whilst lacking maturity, the integrated nature of Office PerformancePoint Server 2007 is an advantage in the newly consolidated PM market, where many of the leading and competing products are due to be integrated following the recent spate of mergers and acquisitions of BI and PM vendors.
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Managing Automation: Microsoft Adds Performance Management to Its Business Intelligence Offerings
Responding to the corporate cry for help in corralling the data that bounces among business systems, Microsoft Corp. this week announced the official release of its business intelligence application, which, the company said, can be tailored to the needs of each decision-maker in the organization.
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Redmond Channel Partner: Microsoft Ships PerformancePoint Server 2007
Microsoft Corp. today officially unveiled PerformancePoint Server 2007, its highly anticipated performance management (PM) software. There's a good chance PerformancePoint Server could do for PM what SQL Server Analysis Services (SSAS) and SQL Server Reporting Services (SSRS) did for OLAP and reporting (respectively): take it mainstream.
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Redmond Developer: PPS 2007 could make BI(g) Impact
Microsoft is about to write the next chapter in its BI story with the release of PerformancePoint Server (PPS) 2007 bolstering Redmond’s BI push.
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ComputerWire: PerformancePoint Hits the BI Market
As expected, and right on time, Microsoft yesterday officially unwrapped Office PerformancePoint Server 2007, its first serious offering in the red-hot performance management software market.
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Enterprise Systems: Microsoft Ships Office PerformancePoint Server 2007
There’s a good chance PerformancePoint Server could take performance management mainstream.
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CNET: Microsoft to Ship Office PerformancePoint Server
Microsoft on Wednesday is scheduled to launch PerformancePoint Server, the last server to ship as part of its 2007 Office system product launch.
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ChannelWeb: Microsoft's PerformancePoint Server 2007 Set to Hit the Channel
The long-awaited product will be making its way into the channel as early as next week.
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InformationWeek: Microsoft Rehauls BI Product Line, Drops ProClarity Name
The offering represents a newly cohesive strategy to Microsoft's previously scattered approach to business intelligence.
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Bloomberg: Microsoft to Complete Business Data-Analysis Program
Microsoft Corp. will complete work this week on a program that lets companies analyze corporate data and create forecasts and budgets.
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ComputerWorld: Microsoft Rolls Out Performance Management BI Software
PerformancePoint Server integrates financial planning, budgeting, and forecasting.
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