Microsoft® PerformancePoint Services

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Benefits

• Align business activity across the enterprise:
  Businesses benefit when strategy and accountability can be driven across business operations. Finance, operations, HR, marketing, sales, IT, and other groups can all benefit from easy-to-use scorecarding.
• Gain deep contextual insight:
  PerformancePoint Services includes rich drill-down capabilities, personalized scorecards, reports, and analysis tools to combine structured information with unstructured data. Users gain deeper insight, which can help them make better and faster business decisions.
• Enhance the partnership with IT:
  IT staffs spend a lot of time providing business users with information. Because PerformancePoint Services gives business users the functionality to quickly set up their own performance dashboards and scorecards, IT is freed for more critical functions such as meeting security and compliance requirements.
• Built on the Microsoft Business Intelligence platform:
  PerformancePoint Services takes advantage of the enterprise-level reliability and security, high performance, and scalability of the Microsoft SQL Server™ 2008 Business Intelligence platform. PerformancePoint Services also makes broad adoption possible by providing robust analytic insights through the familiar and easy-to-use Microsoft Office system environment.

Key Features Flexibility and personalization: PerformancePoint Services empowers users by providing a flexible, end user focused development environment with extensive out-of-the-box functionality for defining and creating scorecards. This makes it easy to visualize strategy and drill down into reports to see lower levels of detail. The user-friendly design, wizards, and familiar Microsoft Office environment empower all users to quickly build, personalize, manage, and use scorecards, while focusing on the business, instead of on the tools. Scalability for broad use : PerformancePoint Services scalability and high performance enable business information to be delivered to a broad number of users. Performance dashboards and scorecards are built to address all types of users, and can be published for both online and offline users. Rich visualization: Rich visualization capabilities including strategy maps, accountability mapping, and Microsoft Office system integration make business information more actionable. They enable users to better understand the context of performance and take appropriate action. Web-based analysis: Provide users with analytic functionality out of the box, minimizing help required from IT Staff. More secure access enables the right people to get the right amount of information at the right time. Guided and contextual analysis : Provide users with analytic views tied to key performance metrics to give users more contextual information about the performance of those metrics. Distribution choices: Analytical views can be shared and managed in SQL Server Report Manager, Microsoft Office SharePoint® Server 2007 Report Center, or distributed in PDF, HTML, or XML format. Users can collaboration with others through Microsoft Office Excel® and PowerPoint®.

Our Services in implementation of PerformancePoint Services

• Business Requirement Analysis
• Design & Architecture of SharePoint Portal and the BI system
• Development of Reports, Dashboards, KPI, Scorecards and data loading components
• Deployment to Servers and conduction of User Acceptance Tests
• User and Administrator Training
• Post Implementation support (Optional)

Case Study of a Large Pharmaceutical Company

In-Market and To-Market sales data is captured and loaded to the central database system which facilitates, tracking, reporting and analysis of sales information across geography, customers, products and various other dimensions. Analysis services cubes were developed and Proclarity is used for building Dashboard and Business Intelligence reports.

Case Study of a Large Pet Nutrition Company

Sell-out and Sell-In data is captured and loaded to the central database system which facilitates, reporting, analytics, KPI, Dashboards for various country users. Having a centralized system gave the customer capabilities to drill-down data, trending, root-cause analysis and ad-hoc querying of business insights.

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Download our PerformancePoint Services brochure

For Implementation of PerformancePoint Services with SharePoint Contact:info.singapore@sqlstar.com

For more information about Microsoft Office PerformancePoint Services: www.microsoft.com/performancepoint