Having a central store for data and business rules
means that everyone in the business has a single source for data, which ensures
accuracy and consistency. This is a great example of the ???single version of the truth,???
which is a goal of all business intelligence. Figure 2-4 shows an example of the
planning module in use.
The planning module also includes a workflow capability, so that changes made
by users can go through an approval process before they are committed to the
forecast or budget. This ensures that users can??™t make changes part way through
the year that are designed to make them look better at the end of year. The planning
module is covered in detail in Chapter 7.
Figure 2-4 Users can work with planning and budgets through a familiar interface:
Excel.
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Summary
PerformancePoint Server includes three primary applications: monitoring, analysis,
and planning. Monitoring is a way of viewing the primary drivers of the business
in a way that immediately communicates the health of the organization. This is
accomplished through scorecards, which are a means for viewing data at a high level
and getting an immediate sense for the strength or weakness of the various metrics.
The analysis functionality is covered by reports in PerformancePoint Server and
analytics tools in the ProClarity applications. This use of multiple applications to
achieve true analytics is necessary in this first release of PerformancePoint Server,
but should be gone in future versions.
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