Business Intelligence with Microsoft® Office PerformancePoint Server 2007

by Craig Utley

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Deliver BI Solutions with Microsoft Office PerformancePoint Server 2007

Maximize the powerful BI tools available in PerformancePoint 2007 with help from this practical guide. You will learn how to collect and store data, monitor progress, analyze performance, distribute dynamic reports, and create maintainable projects and forecasts. Business Intelligence with Microsoft Office PerformancePoint Server 2007 provides full details on creating scorecards and dashboards, performing advanced analysis on data, and setting up business plans. You will also learn how to integrate PerformancePoint with ProClarity, Excel 2007, and SQL Server Reporting Services.

Configure, deploy, and secure all the PerformancePoint components
Create KPIs, scorecards, reports, and dashboards with the Dashboard Designer
Create business models with the Planning Business Modeler and create budgets and forecasts with Excel 2007
Enable advanced data analysis with PerformancePoint Server and ProClarity tools
Take advantage of the enhanced analytic capabilities of Excel 2007
Use SQL Server Reporting Services for analytics
Align performance with organizational objectives

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Average Customer Review: 4 out of 5 stars

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

3 out of 5 stars

I was a bit disapointed, 2008-09-08
I was a bit disappointed

I must first say that Craig's book about PerformancePoint Server is a great introduction book to monitoring and analytics with PerformancePoint Server. For people like me that are looking for more on the planning side of the product I was disappointed. Only one out of 10 chapters contained information about planning the rest of the +300 pages is about various aspects of monitoring and analytics.
I think that the statement from Russ Whitney Development Manager tells everything about the book.
"An excellent introduction to PerformancePoint Server"

For people interested in planning they should choose another book.

0 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

4 out of 5 stars

PPS 2007, 2008-07-30
I like the book. The section beginning on page 215 was especially useful since there is a definite lack of information regarding Performance Point Server 2007. I liked this more than the Rational series because it was presented more clearly and easier to read. I recommend it to anyone interested in PPS 2007.

0 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5 out of 5 stars

Best guide to PPS2007, 2008-07-02
This is a great guide for PPS2007. Craig Utley has done a thorough job covering PPS Monitoring & Analytics and Sony Jose's section on PPS Planning is very helpful. Solid Quality Mentors distributes this book to students of PPS2007 classroom courses as post-training reference material. Enjoy!
--Douglas McDowell, SQL Server MVP

2 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

5 out of 5 stars

Excellent overview of PerformancePoint and BI, 2008-03-27
This is an excellent text if you are looking into moving toward the Microsoft BI platform. The book starts with a nice introduction which includes an overview of data warehousing, ETL, and cube creation. It then moves into quite a bit of detail with PerformancePoint.

Craig has a very conversational style of writing which was very much appreciated. (sometimes these types of books can be very dry)

Overall I would recommend this to anyone looking to purchase or implement PerformancePoint.

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