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Deliver BI Solutions with Microsoft Office PerformancePoint Server 2007

Maximize the powerful BI tools available in PerformancePoint 2007 with help from this practical guide. You will learn how to collect and store data, monitor progress, analyze performance, distribute dynamic reports, and create maintainable projects and forecasts. Business Intelligence with Microsoft Office PerformancePoint Server 2007 provides full details on creating scorecards and dashboards, performing advanced analysis on data, and setting up business plans. You will also learn how to integrate PerformancePoint with ProClarity, Excel 2007, and SQL Server Reporting Services.

• Configure, deploy, and secure all the PerformancePoint components
• Create KPIs, scorecards, reports, and dashboards with the Dashboard Designer
• Create business models with the Planning Business Modeler and create budgets and forecasts with Excel 2007
• Enable advanced data analysis with PerformancePoint Server and ProClarity tools
• Take advantage of the enhanced analytic capabilities of Excel 2007
• Use SQL Server Reporting Services for analytics
• Align performance with organizational objectives

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With the information in Microsoft Office PerformancePoint Server 2007, you can learn the best practices for managing business performance using Office PerformancePoint 2007 and related Microsoft tools. The specific end-user scenarios begin by describing the business requirements and objectives and end with detailed technical guidance for implementing performance management solutions. Leverage PerformancePoint with other key technologies, including SharePoint Server, SQL Server Business Intelligence tools and Office Excel and Excel Services. Use PerformancePoint for common performance management scenarios, including scorecarding, dashboarding, reporting, analysis, planning, budgeting and forecasting..
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Pro PerformancePoint Server 2007 is Microsoft’s latest product in its line of business intelligence applications, a piece of software that gathers data from corporate databases and delivers it to an end user in a friendly, graphical fashion. PerformancePoint offers the next step in the digitization world. Businesses now have gigabytes upon terabytes of data in databases; there’s a need to interpret the data and glean key business insights from it and PerformancePoint.

Author Philo Janus walks you through the business process management and architecture of the PerformancePoint product before delving into developing a complete business intelligence solution, from start to finish.

What you’ll learn

• Develop an end–to–end business intelligence solution.
• Harness and massage data using SQL Server Integration Services, SQL Server Analysis Services, and SQL Server Reporting Services.
• Use ProClarity Analytics to get a better view on corporate performance data.
• Build a portal with key performance indicators and business scorecards using PerformancePoint, Excel Services, and Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007.
• Build out a complete business scorecard.
• Develop tools for business planning and forecasting.

Who is this book for?

If you’re interested in harvesting data from your corporate databases, developing solutions to represent it visually to different audiences in your business, and slicing and dicing that information in a variety of different ways, PerformancePoint—and this book—are for you.

About the Apress Pro Series

The Apress Pro series books are practical, professional tutorials to keep you on and moving up the professional ladder.

You have gotten the job, now you need to hone your skills in these tough competitive times. The Apress Pro series expands your skills and expertise in exactly the areas you need. Master the content of a Pro book, and you will always be able to get the job done in a professional development project. Written by experts in their field, Pro series books from Apress give you the hard–won solutions to problems you will face in your professional programming career.

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Microsoft Office PerformancePoint Server 2007 (PPS) is a complete performance management solution, allowing companies to monitor their progress toward goals, analyze information, plan, budget, and forecast using dynamic modeling tools. Using interactive dashboards, PPS enables the integration of refined data from one or more sources into a single point-of-contact for key performance indicators, which are directly aligned to corporate strategies and goals.

This book will bring you up to speed on the Planning features of PPS 2007. Topics include performance management theory, PPS Planning Tools, the Planning Administration Console, and Planning Business Modeler. The book takes an in-depth look at solution design and implementation, including designing dimensions and member sets, building and securing business models, integrating business data, and defining business rules.

This book is a companion volume to The Rational Guide to Monitoring and Analyzing with Microsoft Office PerformancePoint Server 2007..
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Explore the features, the installation, and the configuration of these seven new servers and gain a conceptual understanding of how your users will be working with them.

Forms Server 2007

Groove Server 2007

Communications Server 2007

PerformancePoint Server 2007

Project Portfolio Server 2007

Project Server 2007

SharePoint® Server 2007 for Search

Along with the release of Windows Vista and the revamped suite of Office 2007 products, Microsoft has released a line-up of new servers. Exchange Server 2007 and SharePoint® Server 2007 are two of the major players, but there are also seven additional Office 2007 Servers of which you may not be aware that can add productivity to your environment in a variety of ways.

Each of the seven servers is unique and requires distinct assessment to determine if your company can benefit from any given server. This book provides you with the knowledge you need to determine the use of each server, the prerequisites and procedures of server installation, the post-installation configuration options so you can set it and forget it, and finally, a look at the client-side applications that interact with the new servers.

Detailed information on how to…

• Install each of the seven Office 2007 Servers, including both standalone and server farm installation.
• Handle post-installation configuration options for each of the seven Office 2007 Servers.
• Create InfoPath forms to post to your InfoPath Forms Server.
• Work with the Groove client once your Groove Servers are in place.
• Communicate more efficiently within your company using a Communications Server and the new Communicator 2007 client.
• Handle larger projects through Project Professional 2007 with your new Project Server and Project Portfolio Server.
• Understand Business Intelligence (BI) in order to manage your company’s future through PerformancePoint Server.
• Improve your ability to search for content through your SharePoint Server for Search.

J. Peter Bruzzese is an independent consultant and trainer for a variety of clients including CBT Nuggets, New Horizons, and ONLC.com. Over the past ten years Peter has worked for/with Goldman Sachs, CommVault Systems, and Microsoft, to name a few. He focuses on corporate training and has had the privilege of working with some of the best trainers in the business of computer education. In the past he specialized in Active Directory and Exchange instruction, as well as certification training. Peter is a contributor to Redmond Magazine, WindowsITPro magazine, and several tech sites, and a speaker for the MCP TechMentor Conferences.

Ronald Barrett is the director of information technology for an accounting and financial services firm, while also serving as chairman for the Technology Executive Committee for CPAmerica, a national CPA network, consisting of 15,000+ professionals.

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* PerformancePoint is an integrated performance management tool that helps managers stay in synch with corporate objectives as they plan, budget, forecast, report, and analyze results using familiar Microsoft Office programs as well as dashboards and scorecards
* This is the first accessible beginner's guide to PerformancePoint-a book that shows both corporate executives and line managers how to harness the power of this complex BI product
* Uses a fictionalized example business to introduce and explain PerformancePoint concepts and capabilities, and includes questionnaires, diagrams, and planning exercises to help people get up to speed
* Demonstrates how PerformancePoint tools for planning, monitoring, analyzing, and collaborating can help improve business performance.
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