This is no different from taking the range of grades over a semester
for an entire class and ranking students based on their averages, but it provides an
impartial way to rank what may be very different products or locations.
Dashboards are containers for one or more scorecards, possibly mixed with
reports or other items. Dashboards may have filters that users can change to update
one or more of the items on the page. For example, a filter for products would allow
users to change from one product to another as well as update a scorecard and the
two reports on the dashboard. Figure 2-1 shows an example of a dashboard hosting
a scorecard and several reports, both as charts and grids.
One of the elements missing in the first version of the monitoring tool is the
ability to click on a KPI and pass parameters to an existing application or report.
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For example, imagine that a business was looking at the salary expense for a
particular location and noticed a particularly low score, meaning that salaries were
much higher than expected. A useful feature would allow the user to click on that
KPI and then launch the company??™s time and attendance system, with the location
and the time period being viewed automatically passed as parameters. This type of
integration may be possible via customizations but it is not a functionality that is
available out of the box in this first version of PerformancePoint Server.
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