The planning module is designed to help organizations speed the process of
budgeting and forecasting, while enforcing business rules across the enterprise.
Security is an important component of the planning module, tracking all changes and
ensuring that users only see data to that they have permissions to.
Overall, PerformancePoint Server 2007 provides a way for companies to
monitor their business performance against plans, dive deep into data, and create
new forecasts and plans easily. These plans can then be used in the monitoring
process, and the circle is complete. The integration of these tools and the powerful
dashboards that can be built make PerformancePoint Server 2007 a powerful tool for
delivering business intelligence value to the organization.
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CHAPTER 3
Data Warehousing and
Business Intelligence
IN THIS CHAPTER
Designing to Solve the Problem
Extracting, Transforming, and Loading Data
Building Cubes
Delivering Data to Consumers
Summary
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Business intelligence covers a range of technologies, and in this book
business intelligence is a generic term covering the data warehouse as well
as the tools and applications used to view the data from the warehouse.
While the major focus of this book is on PerformancePoint Server and ProClarity,
which allows users to consume data, there would be nothing to view without first
building a data warehouse or data mart.
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