2. Performance Point Overview Shivani Inderjee Business Intelligence Specialist Microsoft

3. Why? What happened? What is happening? What will happen? What do I want to happen? Performance Management Better execute on strategy

4. Why did it happen? Analytics What happened? Reporting What will happen? Forecasting What do I want to happen? Planning, Budgeting, Consolidation What is happening? Scorecards and Dashboards Performance Management Capabilities required

5. END USER TOOLS AND PERFORMANCE MANAGEMENT APPS Excel PerformancePoint Server BI PLATFORM SQL Server Reporting Services SQL Server Analysis Services SQL Server DBMS SQL Server Integration Services SharePoint Server DELIVERY ReportsDashboardsExcelWorkbooksAnalyticViewsScorecardsPlans Our Integrated Business Intelligence Offering

6. The OLAP Report There is now no doubt that Microsoft is deadly serious about taking a very big bite out of the performance management market. PerformancePoint has a scalable architecture, designed with considerable attention to performance, and early customer reports are positive. Indeed, PerformancePoint is reported already to outperform some of the established market-leading products. (OLAP Report, June 27, 2007) Nigel Pendse Download preview here here

7. AMR Research It’s the total Microsoft solution, not just the BI/PM products... While some competitors will dismiss Microsoft products as not scalable or lacking functionality, that assessment is short-sighted. (Market Outlook: Microsoft’s Looming Impact on the Business Intelligence and Performance Management Market June 27, 2007 By John Hagerty)

8. PerformancePoint Server 2007 Authoring Design, Publish, Maintain Consume View, Contribute, Analyse Business Data Business Logic Business Rules Security Dimensions Models Process Control Model to Model Associations Dashboards/Scorecards/KPI Strategy Maps Views, Forms, Reports Data Visualisations

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10. PerformancePoint Server 2007 Planning Business users can interact with and continuously contribute to the business processes of planning, budgeting and forecasting in the familiar and easy to use Office Excel environment.

11. Planning And Modeling Business users design models the way they think about their business Top-down and bottom-up planning functionality connecting people and driving accountability Process management to manage forms, workflows, submissions, approvals, reports, notifications and annotations Secure and auditable environment Spans from single model deployments to enterprise scenarios

12. Reporting And Consolidation Construct models that drive profitability analysis incorporating standard financial functionality Support management and GAAP consolidation process with multiple currency conversions, inter-company eliminations and reconciliations, multi-tier allocations Dynamic and standard reports including financial and business performance reports Publish live reports from Excel to Reporting Services and Microsoft Office Server providing consistency of experience for report consumers

13. Handling Real-World Complexity Corporate Business Unit 1 Business Unit 2 Flexibility within a Framework Forecast Pricing Consol. Forecast Pricing CapEx Sales OpEx Forecast Pricing CapEx Sales OpEx Account Entity Scenario Time Product Family Account Entity Scenario Time Product Account Entity Scenario Time Service Customer Market Segment

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15. Display the organisation’s strategy and its targets, goals, and alerts in a visual format to allow users to monitor and take action. PerformancePoint Server 2007 Monitor performance

16. Rich Monitoring Capabilities Spans from personal performance dashboards to formal methodology-based and cascading scorecards Access wide range of structured and unstructured data-sources for more comprehensive dashboards and scorecards Rich dashboard filters to dynamically filter all views on the dashboard. Contextual KPIs and reports reflect changes in planning, budgeting, and forecasting data Dynamic Strategy Maps linked to KPI data Assign owners to KPIs for accountability

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18. Analytics and data visualisation make it easy for users to understand complex information faster, spot highlights, trends and opportunities. PerformancePoint Server 2007 Analyse performance

19. Analysis And Data Visualization Web-based thin analysis provides users with rich analytical functionality out of the box, minimizing help required from IT Staff Analytics include multidimensional slice and dice, drill-across, drill-to-detail, root-cause analysis, and centralized business logic definitions Predictive analytics allow for forecasting and trend analysis Guided and contextual analysis through tight integration of KPIs and analytics in the dashboard Advanced Data Visualizations such as decomposition trees and performance maps

20. Analysis Drives Better Planning Collaborate on analytic insights Update the business plan and continue to monitor performance

21. Demo : Monitor & Analyse

22. Dashboard Designer Familiar Microsoft Office 2007 look and feel Fast Time to Delivery and Ease of Administration Designed for collaboration and reuse Offline capabilities Built-in templates and wizards allow user to quickly build and share dashboards and scorecards

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24. Enterprise Ready Familiar Microsoft Office 2007 look and feel Fast Time to Delivery and Ease of Administration Designed for collaboration and reuse Offline capabilities Built-in templates and wizards allow user to quickly build and share dashboards and scorecards

25. Summary Used to drive business performance Integrated Performance Management application Flexibility of the framework Easy to use and learn Simple and cost-effective licensing to enable broad deployment

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