This is useful in situations where a company wants to apply the same
scorecard to each of several locations. Using a score, it becomes simple to rank each
location based on this score.
Figure 1-2 A scorecard created in PerformancePoint Server
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Scorecards can certainly be used by anyone in an organization, as everyone
appreciates a quick glance summary of the data. However, scorecards are aimed at
higher levels of an organization: the business decision-makers. Executives and others
with decision-making authority in an organization are typically very busy people,
and they don??™t have time to plumb the data for hidden gems of information; instead,
they need a quick overview of the organization??™s health. Scorecards work perfectly
for this by providing that at-a-glance update on the most important business metrics.
If any numbers are off, the business decision maker can sometimes perform some
analytics to uncover the cause, but most often they have an analyst on staff that will
be given the task for investigating the issue. The analyst has tools far more adept at
performing complex analysis than can be done with a scorecard.
Scorecards are often placed on a dashboard. A dashboard may contain one or
more scorecards, some KPIs independent of a scorecard, reports from Reporting
Services, and charts from ProClarity. To add another layer to this, a portal is the
top of the heap and may contain one or more dashboards as well as a copy of the
person??™s calendar, e-mail, and so forth.
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