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CHAPTER 8
Using PerformancePoint Services
Chapter 1, “Business intelligence in SharePoint,” shows you the basic pattern for creating key
performance indicators (KPIs), which are derived from a company vision, a company strategy, and
measurable objectives. PerformancePoint Services in SharePoint Server 2013 has been a viable busi-
ness intelligence (BI) tool that complements SharePoint Server 2013. It's a monitoring and analytics
service that helps organizations monitor and analyze their business by providing tools for building
dashboards, scorecards, and KPIs. When set up properly and with access to trusted data (see Chapter
3, “The lifecycle of a business intelligence implementation”) and other data sources and reports, these
PerformancePoint components (and others) help you to answer the following questions across an
organization:
What has happened? (monitoring)
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What is happening? (monitoring)
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Why is it happening? (analysis)
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By answering these questions, you and your employees can better predict what will happen, and
make informed business decisions that align with company-wide objectives and strategy. This chapter
provides an introduction to PerformancePoint Services by helping you to create many of the compo-
nents that it offers, using the tools it provides.
A brief history of PerformancePoint Services
In 2005, Microsoft Office Business Scorecard Manager 2005 was released as a product to help organi-
zations build, manage, and use scorecards and KPIs, and then make it possible for the organization to
use all these components to perform analysis.
The successor to Business Scorecard Manager, PerformancePoint Ser ver 2007, became part of the
Office 2007 system of products and is positioned to be a complete performance management appli-
cation. With PerformancePoint 2007, you can monitor the progress of KPIs, which are shared as key
goals or drivers of the business.
Microsoft Office PerformancePoint Server was integrated into SharePoint 2010. It is available as part
of the non-free versions of SharePoint Server 2013 and is influential in the marketplace because of its
well-engineered BI options and features.
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