Dashboards are what are ultimately deployed
by PerformancePoint Server, and the primary deployment target for these dashboards
is SharePoint. SharePoint is an excellent tool for bringing together information from
multiple applications and displaying it in a centralized location.
The creation of scorecards, as well as some common KPIs, will be examined in
depth in Chapters 4 and 5.
Reports
Reports are typically boring collections of numbers in rows and columns.
Despite their generally dull nature, reports are still in huge demand across many
organizations. Fortunately, reports don??™t have to be as dull as they have been in the
past. Thanks to online report viewing, reports can now be interactive, providing
end users with the ability to drill down and obtain additional information, or
choose values from a filter list to narrow the scope of what they see in the report.
Understand that when discussing reports, the terms filters and parameters are often
used interchangeably, and that will be the case in this book. Figure 1-3 shows a
report that allows users to narrow the data using drop-down list boxes, as well as
drill into more detail by expanding regions of the report.
SQL Server Reporting Services allows for the creation of reports against a data
warehouse, regardless of whether the data are stored in a relational format or in a
cube. These reports can be interactive; users can choose values from a parameter
list and the reports can allow for limited drill down and other analytic operations.
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