Performance Management has become one of the fastest growing areas of the Business Intelligence field. Whilst every organisation has its own requirements for a successful PM implementation at a basic level we're talking about the defining and development of the following components:

• Key Performance Indicators
• Scorecards
• Dashboards
• Contextual Reporting

More and more companies are looking beyond classic reporting scenarios and wanting a much more intuitive, business focused view of their organisation. One of the key ways to achieve this is to implement a Balanced Scorecard methodology and Microsoft SharePoint and Microsoft SQL Server can provide all the tools required to implement a successful, comprehensive performance management system.

Excel Services

With SharePoint Excel services organisations can publish key business information via their SharePoint environment that would otherwise be locked away in Excel workbooks stored on the business analysts desktop.

Performance Point Services

Rich and powerful analytic capabilities can give you answers to the "why" questions:

• Why did performance dip when you expected it to peak?
  
• Why is a sales representative underperforming?
  
• Why is a key performance indicator off-target?

Microsoft Office PerformancePoint Server 2007 can help you answer those questions because it provides a seamless experience between monitoring data and discovering the root cause of an issue. And this in turn means that you can take quick action to get performance back on track.

SQL Server Reporting Services

Reporting Services allows an organisation to give deep, contextual meaning to the metrics and KPI's exposed through their scorecards allowing for a top to bottom view of the performance of the business.