While there are
three pillars, two of them are integrated to some degree, and in other ways, are the
most separate. Monitoring and analysis are both integrated into a single tool, and
in fact are both installed together, which means that they are tightly integrated; on
the other hand, the analysis features in PerformancePoint Server 2007 are not as far
along as originally planned, so Microsoft includes a license for a separate analytics
application with the purchase of PerformancePoint Server. The planning piece of
PerformancePoint uses a separate installation and a separate end-user tool from the
monitoring and analysis pieces. There is little doubt that this product schizophrenia
will be greatly reduced in future versions of PerformancePoint Server. For now,
companies will still have access to the most powerful set of tools yet delivered to
business intelligence to the organization.
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Monitoring with PerformancePoint Server
PerformancePoint Server 2007 provides monitoring functionality that includes
key performance indicators, scorecards, and dashboards. These dashboards are
hosted in SharePoint, including either the free Windows SharePoint Services or the
definitely not free Microsoft Office SharePoint Server. The monitoring functionality
in PerformancePoint Server is the third iteration of technology from Microsoft,
replacing Microsoft Office Business Scorecard Manager 2005.
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