Product DescriptionMicrosoft 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 Monitoring and Analytics features of PPS 2007. Topics include performance management theory, PPS installation and configuration, the Dashboard Designer, and the six Monitoring elements. Advanced topics include deployment, security, and scoring.
This book is a companion volume of The Rational Guide to Planning with Microsoft Office PerformancePoint Server 2007.
Customer Reviews
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Rating: - Book to get quick up to speed in PPS2007
The Rational Guide to Monitoring and Analyzing With Microsoft Office PerformancePoint Server 2007 is a good book if you want to get quick up to speed in PPS2007. It explains all you need to know in a easy way (ne deep technical language used). There are also some very useful tips and tricks notes. I recommend it to start with PPS MA. This book contains no content for more advanced instructions on dashboard or component design.
Rating: - Great introduction to PerformancePoint Monitoring
I have been involved in architecting and designing Microsoft based business intelligence solutions for the past 8 years. I was very excited when PerformancePoint was launched because it filled a very real need in the Microsoft BI platform. It is always a challenge to find training material when a new product is launched so Adrian and Nick's books have been released at just the right time.
I enjoyed both books(The Rational Guide To Monitoring and Analyzing with Microsoft Office PerformancePoint ... Read More
Rating: - Monitoring & Analyzing with MS PerformancePoint Server
Highly recommended! Barclay and Downs have written a fine and very accessible book, which fulfills the Rational Guide promise - not of being technical bibles, but of being straightforward learning guides - in this case, to a user-friendly yet sophisticated business intelligence / performance management front-end development platform. Although the book does not intend to teach any BI back-end development, it provides just enough context so that readers without those skills will move forward without ... Read More
Rating: - Another winner from Barclay and Downes
When I first started trying to work with Business Scorecard Manager (BSM) I found a terrific little book (Rational Guide) by Nick Barclay and Adrian Downes which saved me a ton of time.
Happily the PerformancePoint Monitoring product is intrinsically better than BSM and hence a little easier to understand on its own terms, but none the less this new Rational Guide is a very valuable resource for anybody tasked with working with this product.
Rating: - A Fast and Effective Approach to Understanding PerformancePoint Monitoring
Nick Barclay and Adrian Downes have authored their second book in the Rational Guide series entitled The Rational Guide to Monitoring and Analyzing with Microsoft Office PerformancePoint Server 2007. Their first book was The Rational Guide to Microsoft Office Business Scorecard Manager 2005, which I've also read and found to be very useful.
The book begins with a description of what Performance Management is and the role it plays in business organizations. They also introduce PerformancePoint ... Read More
- Book to get quick up to speed in PPS2007
- Great introduction to PerformancePoint Monitoring
