I was excited about the prospects for the product. Finally, the ProClarity features I
had known for years were growing up and would become part of a larger, integrated
suite that would provide business intelligence value at many levels of the organization.
While version one of PerformancePoint Server isn??™t quite as integrated as I??™d
hoped, it??™s definitely headed in the right direction and is going to help deliver value
to many businesses that have thus far deployed nothing more than Excel.
This book lays out what business intelligence is all about, who the consumers
of business intelligence are, and how they consume data. It discusses the business
intelligence concepts and shows how they can be delivered using PerformancePoint
Server and ProClarity, whether through monitoring, analysis, or planning. I also
discuss Excel 2007 and Reporting Services, since both can continue to be used for
delivering data in various formats.
As you??™ll discover from reading this book, I??™m a fan of business intelligence in
general. I believe it has the power to enable businesses to make informed decisions
more quickly. I??™m also a believer in a variety of approaches for delivering the data;
I find PerformancePoint Server to be on the right path to delivering data to a very
broad swath of users. No tool is perfect, but I??™ve found PerformancePoint Server
to be the best product yet created to address the various needs of different users to
consume data from a data warehouse.
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