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Performance Point Server

Microsoft brings a business intelligence tool Performance Point for decision makers. Performance Point is especially designed for Microsoft Office users and it can also be integrated with SharePoint. Performance Point enables effective and efficient performance management services by providing flexible, easy-to-use tools for creating dashboards, reports, scorecards, and key performance indicators (KPIs).Dashboards, Scorecards, and KPIs help enable sustainable accountability.

 

Microsoft Performance Point Services aid decision makers make informed business decisions, objectives and strategy. Analytics Integrated with performance point help employees move quickly from monitoring information to analyzing it and, sharing it throughout the organization.

 

The top benefits of Microsoft Office Performance Point Server 2007 can help you transform your business process and turn your data into a competitive advantage.

 

  • A complete and integrated performance management solution
  • Performance management for all business users
  • Advanced analytic and visualization capabilities
  • Cross-enterprise view
  • Enhanced partnership between IT and business analysts
  • Accountability from the individual to the enterprise
  • Monitoring and analyzing across the entire organization
  • Built on the Microsoft Business Intelligence platform

 

* A generic diagram can be made on the following table. We can explain features and benefits on it.

The following table lists some KPI/Scorecard features and compares how SSRS and PPS are able to deal with them:

Feature PerformancePoint Services Reporting Services 2008 R2
Parent KPIs Out of the box Parent KPIs No built in parent KPIs
Scoring
  • Two built in scoring methods
  • Weighting concept to assist with scoring
 No built in scoring capability
Data Sources
  • Analysis Services
  • SQL Server
  • SharePoint List
  • Excel
  • SQL Server
  • Analysis Services
  • Oracle
  • OLE DB, ODBC
  • XML
  • SharePoint List
  • SAP Netweaver BI
  • Teradata
  • Essbase

 
Positioning
  • KPIs can only exist within Scorecards
  • A scorecard can only contain KPIs and their associated indicator and date items
  • Indicators can be embedded in other objects or exist by themselves
  • Other objects (e.g. spark lines) can co-exist alongside Indicators in the same Tablix.
Formatting
  • Colours & number formats of the Scorecard grid can be changed
  • Colours/fonts in data cells cannot be changed.
If the Indicator is embedded in a Tablix, then each cell can be altered in terms of Colours and number formats.
Ease of Use As long as your data is in good shape, it's possible for power users to build KPIs and Scorecards with Dashboard Designer relatively easily. The indicator windows are very intuitive in SSRS, but I'd say that building an SSRS report is harder for a power user than building a PPS dashboard.
Other functionality Scorecards allow users enter comments against KPI values, which is a great feature. The standard SSRS expressions allow you to fine tune indicators, states, values and formatting of

 

 

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