Microsoft Office Performance Point Server
Microsoft Office PerformancePoint Server was a software product from Microsoft for the business intelligence sector. Development on PerformancePoint was discontinued in April 2009. The dashboard, scorecard, and analytics components of PerformancePoint have been incorporated into Sharepoint Server 2010.
PerformancePoint Server 2007 integrated with other Microsoft Office products including Excel, Visio, SQL Server, and SharePoint Server. It was also the successor to the scorecard capabilities of Microsoft Office Business Scorecard Manager and the monitoring and analytic capabilities of recently acquired ProClarity.
PerformancePoint Server also provided a planning and budgeting component which was directly integrated with Excel and SQL Server Analysis Services. PerformancePoint gathered data from disjointed systems in order to keep overall accurate information. This includes the views of Project financials with Schedule performance with integration of EPM 'Dashboards' into the SharePoint-based PerformancePoint. Since PerformancePoint uses 'data cubes' to manage the information being collected, you can make connections into existing cubes or schedule data transfers from existing backoffice systems into these data cubes to easily represent the same information within more advanced and informative 'Value' added dashboards.
Microsoft is only one of a number of vendors in this emerging business intelligence market; others include: Panorama Software, MicroStrategy, Information Builders, Oracle, Business Objects (acquired by SAP in 2007), Hyperion (acquired by Oracle in 2007), Cognos (acquired by IBM in 2008), SAS, InetSoft, Informatica, QlikTech, Strategy Companion, Tableau Software, LogiXML and Pentaho.
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