Business decision makers rarely have access to the tools to perform advanced analysis
on their own, simply because they lack either the time or the expertise to do so. In
addition, many businesses employ analysts who are well versed in statistical methods
and are therefore tasked with performing in-depth analysis of the data.
Delivering tools that provide the functionality needed for advanced analytics has
always been a challenge; the more powerful the tools become, the more difficult
they are to use. The good news is that many tools today, while still very powerful,
are easier to use than ever. This doesn??™t mean that just anyone can pick them up and
make them work, but it does open them up to an ever-widening audience. Today??™s
tools also allow analysts to create complex reports or views of the data and then
share these views with everyone else in the organization, greatly increasing the
utility of the work done by analysts.
As discussed in Chapter 2, PerformancePoint Server has three major areas of focus:
monitoring, analyzing, and planning. The analysis piece is arguably the least complete
in this first version of PerformancePoint Server. While it will someday include most or
all of the functionality found in ProClarity today, this first version of PerformancePoint
Server will also include licenses for ProClarity, to benefit those needing truly advanced
analytics. Therefore, this chapter will first cover the analytics that are built into
PerformancePoint Server and then discuss ProClarity??”specifically the ProClarity
Standard and Professional interfaces and the ProClarity Analytics Server.
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