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.
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Customer Reviews
Average Rating:
Rating: - Good Book to have now and later on
I bought this book thinking it was going to be dry material. I found it was an excellent addition to my technical library. The examples are easy to follow and the narrative is easy to understand. It's one of those all-rounders that you feel I will keep close for later reference as well.
Rating: - Best book on Performance Management with PerformancePoint 2007
I have been in the BI space for almost a decade and was glad to see that Microsoft finally entered this space full force with PerformancePoint 2007. The problem was there were no definitive books on the topic. There were "manuals" with click here instructions and dialogue box explanations but nothing that pulled it all together. This book does an excellent job of explaining how to create a complete BI solution with PerformancePoint 2007 and the other SQL Server BI components. It is more heavily ... Read More
- Good Book to have now and later on
- Best book on Performance Management with PerformancePoint 2007
