Business Intelligence with Microsoft® Office PerformancePoint...

Features

• Cover Type: Paperback with 358 pages
• Published by: McGraw-Hill Osborne Media
• Edition: 1st Edition January 22, 2008
• Written in: English
• ISBN 10 Number: 0071493700
• ISBN 13 Number: 978-0071493703
• Book Dimensions: 9 x 7.3 x 1.1 inches
• Weighs: 1.4 pounds

Product Description


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

About The Author


Craig Utley is a mentor with Solid Quality Mentors and a former Program Manager on the SQL Server Customer Advisory Team at Microsoft. He has been working with Microsoft's BI products since the beta of SQL Server 7, helping to author Microsoft's first data warehousing course and teaching it at Microsoft and many other companies.

Reader Reviews
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 Comment | | (Report this)