Microsoft has announced the bundling of its performance management tool, Performance Point Server, with the Microsoft Office SharePoint Server (MOSS) 2007 Enterprise licence, which will be integrated as Performance Point Services.
This move takes performance management, a key component of business intelligence (BI), from being the exclusive domain of the executive boardroom, and makes it available to users across an organisation without any additional licensing costs. Organisations can now leverage existing SharePoint implementations to quickly and effectively identify cost-saving measures and business opportunities.
Performance Point Services allows organisations to measure and review salient business objectives, ranging from individual and business unit goals, to organisation-wide performance indicators. It provides business users with access to advanced BI capabilities, including visualisations, slice and dice analysis, strategy map integration and interactive drill-through charts. The tight integration of Performance Point into SharePoint contextualises these capabilities within business processes, creating actionable information when and where it is needed.
Intervate is a leading ECM solution provider and award-winning Microsoft Gold Certified partner with BI competency. Intervate has been deploying specialist SharePoint solutions for many years and has expert skills and experience in integrating and deploying rich BI solutions through Microsoft SharePoint portals and the Office Suite. Intervate's performance management solutions extend from individual KPI measurement to enterprise-wide BI solutions.
According to Mark Stacey, Business Intelligence Consultant at Intervate: “The bundling of performance point with the MOSS 2007 licence has dramatically increased the value SharePoint provides to its users. Organisations that do not leverage these additional features are missing an opportunity to greatly improve performance and measurability of their employees without additional software spend.”
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