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When do I use PerformancePoint Services for BI?
Use PerformancePoint Services for creating dashboards, scorecards, KPIs, and various other types of
dynamic reports that help deliver a graphical view of performance. Consider the example presented
in Chapter 1 of an IT operations scorecard. The scorecard measures database space and other metrics
gathered from the Systems Center Operation manager. The dashboard is a point of entry for drill-
down analysis to drive agility and alignment across an organization. PerformancePoint Services gives
users integrated analytics for monitoring, analyzing, and reporting.
When to use PerformancePoint Services
The following list describes when you can use PerformancePoint Services and Dashboard Designer as
an authoring tool:
When you need to create rich dashboards that convey the right information, aggregating con-
tent from multiple sources and displaying it in a web browser in an understandable and col-
laborative environment. Scorecard and report interactivity lets you analyze up-to-the-minute
information and work with the data quickly and easily to identify key opportunities and trends.
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When you want to implement a Balanced Scorecard methodology to measure FOSH metrics.
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When you want to perform root cause analyses, using analytics to examine data while viewing
only the most pertinent information by using the new Decomposition Tree.
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Available case studies
Although this topic covers which tool to use, as described in Chapter 2, “Planning for business
intelligence adoption,” we suggest that you try to map your particular industry or department's
challenges and search for relevant information about how others have resolved those challenges by
The PerformancePoint Services architecture
Figure 8-4 is a graphical depiction of PerformancePoint Services. It is similar to the diagram in
Chapter 1 but focuses on elements specific to Dashboard Designer, the possible data sources for
a dashboard, and databases. It also shows that you can export data from a dashboard to an Excel
spreadsheet.
The front-end web server runs on Internet Information Services (IIS) and hosts the PerformancePoint
Services Web Parts, web services, and the proxy required for communication between the client and
the PerformancePoint Services service application.
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