MS Office PerformancePoint Server is an integrated application for performance management. With PerformancePoint Server, you can manage a single integrated application. Users can create reports and scorecards that show performance at a glance, or create rules that help them better understand variances between planned and actual performance. Analysts can quickly analyze root-causes and recast plans when necessary reaching all business functions (finance, operations, marketing, sales, and human resources). Customers can enter the performance management process at any point, benefiting from a common data model shared across monitoring, analytical, and planning activities.

PerformancePoint Server 2007 provides all the functionality that is needed for performance management. Performance Point offers features that not only help analysts monitor and analyze organizational performance, but also do critical planning, forecasting, and financial reporting. In addition, PerformancePoint features make it possible for you to assign tasks such as data input and quality review to other users. 

Key Features

• Create interactive and cascaded scorecards and dashboards with ability to drilldown into details.
• 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.
• Create parameterized dashboards.
• 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).
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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 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.