The Enterprise Requirement
With Office PerformancePointTM Server 2007, Microsoft has produced a premium platform for end-to-end Enterprise Business Intelligence Solutions. ICS - the Microsoft Business Intelligence Experts - have developed their VOLT rapid deployment methodology to maximise the benefits and ROI of PerformancePoint implementations. Planning, Forecasting, Budgeting, Reporting and Analysis for the Enterprise can all now be achieved via Microsoft’s fully integrated Office PerformancePointTM Server solution. With its customer engagements and global education programmes, ICS is leading the way in the fastest moving and most exciting transformation of the Enterprise Class Business Intelligence landscape for decades.
Integrated Performance Management
Microsoft® Office PerformancePointTM Server 2007 provides all of the functionality that is needed for performance management in a single, integrated application including scorecards, dashboards, management reporting, analytics, planning, budgeting, forecasting, and consolidation. With PerformancePoint, users can better understand variances between plan and actual, quickly analyse root-causes, and recast plans when necessary. Customers can enter the performance management process at any point, benefiting from a common data model shared across monitoring, analytical, and planning activities.
With Office PerformancePoint Server 2007 server:
- Business executives can drive accountability and alignment across
and up-and-down the organisation.
- Information workers can monitor, analyse and plan activities with an
integrated and collaborative solution.
- IT managers can drive better adoption and compliance by enabling
organisations to better associate business intelligence and corporate
performance.
- The application reaches all employees, across all business functions
(finance, operations, marketing, sales, and human resources).
- Decision makers need to drive performance by accelerating business decision making, while adapting to changing business conditions and enforcing corporate governance. PerformancePoint allows the organisation to build reliable plans faster and execute against them by aligning and driving accountability across business operations.
Planning, Monitoring & Analytics - The ICS View
The ICS view is that planning, monitoring and analysing forecasts and budgets
against key metrics should be a continuous, cyclical process, not just
an annual budgeting exercise with periodic measurement against plan.
Tracking and managing performance and aligning business change
needs to be a process owned by empowered teams and individuals.
PerformancePoint allows business users to build models and assign
rights and responsibilities for the setting, upkeep and adjustment of
budgets and forecasts in Excel. Performance of targets and KPI’s
is visualised using fully featured PerformancePoint dashboards and
scorecards in SharePoint. Root cause analysis is made possible with
the Analytics and reporting capability currently available in Proclarity.
Annotations, audit logs and Reporting Services management reports
combined with role and responsibility based security complete the
offering from the corporate governance perspective.
Business Success Across All Business Operations
PerformancePoint provides employees with critical visibility into the
factors impacting their business, allowing them to make decisions
and take actions that better drive business outcomes. This application
empowers the broadest number of employees - executives, managers,
and front-line employees - to contribute to plans and have better access
to tailored information, helping them take actions that improve customer
relationships, reduce costs, and increase revenues. Progress can be
monitored and analysed through personalised scorecards through the
familiar and easy-to-use Microsoft® Office environment.
PerformancePoint also enables businesses to broadly deliver performance management capabilities across the organisation by rapidly bringing together the power and ease of use of Microsoft® Office and the performance, scalability, and security of Microsoft® SQL ServerTM. Customers are able to extend their Microsoft investment and reap the benefits of an application that is easy to use and less costly to deploy than traditional solutions.
Office PerformancePoint Server 2007 features robust performance management capabilities including:
- Flexibility to handle complex environments
PerformancePoint uses a model-driven approach to make it easier to create corporate models for scorecards, analytics, and plans that can also be used for departmental-level performance management. By providing synchronised models up and down the organisation as well
as across departments, users can more easily get a consistent view of organisational performance.
- Users shape their plans the way they think about their business
PerformancePoint provides business users with the ability to define, modify, and maintain their plans easily. The application handles the sophistication of the company business processes (rules, logic, calculations, and workflows) while helping more users contribute to the performance management process.
- Reducing complexity for IT and for the business
PerformancePoint enables businesses to broadly deliver performance management across the organisation by rapidly bringing together the power of Microsoft® Office and the performance, scalability, and security of SQL Server. PerformancePoint is easy to use and less costly to deploy than traditional solutions. PerformancePoint also helps IT better support corporate governance through the ability to audit the performance management process as well as control versions and report on the processes.
Office PerformancePoint Server Benefits
PerformancePoint greatly improves visibility into company
performance and the factors that are driving it. PerformancePoint also
enables employees to monitor and act on performance variances.
PerformancePoint offers:
- Robust monitoring and analytics capabilities
PerformancePoint monitoring and analytics capabilities enable business users to see and understand performance issues quickly so they can make better decisions faster - all without the need for technical assistance. The fact that scorecards, dashboards, and analytics are all integrated into the same application makes deployment simple and helps drive alignment and accountability. PerformancePoint helps individuals to be more effective and the organisation to be more agile.
- Improved planning, budgeting, and forecasting
Drive strategic objectives and goals into the planning and budgeting process to ensure departmental plans align with corporate strategy. Reduce the time and effort required through centralised control and administration and workflow that manages the creation and submission.
- Faster financial reporting and consolidation
Consolidate financial data from multiple general ledgers and reporting systems to achieve a single, integrated view of financial information. Robust integration and administration of financial information helps increase information accuracy and reduce the time and effort required for statutory and management reporting.
- Extends existing IT investments
PerformancePoint utilises widely used and supported Microsoft technologies such as Windows Server, SQL Server, and Microsoft® Office SharePoint Portal Server. This utilisation enables companies to extend their existing investments and IT skill sets in these mission-critical enterprise technologies.