BSM to Performance Point Server 2007
Aaah, i have been struggling with my blog credentials since sometime as someone had tampered with it, and i thought i have lost my blog. But today i got it back after so much of running around with weblogs.. I have too many things to blame for this inlcuding the crazy password reset functionality in weblogs, irresponsible admin emailids and ofcourse myself :), but i will play this blame game later.
It's been since a month i have been waiting to blog on Performance Point Server and now the pricing is also out for the same.
Performance Point Server (PPS) is next release of Business Scorecard Managar 2005. But the interesting fact is Performance Point Server also includes some of the major functionalities of Proclarity and also introduces a planning component code named Biz#.
The product component can be broken down as Monitoring, Analytics and Planning (acronymed as MAP). The monitoring component is almost same as the Business Scorecard Manager. While the analytics component is more of the proclarity analytics server. The planning component is codenamed as Biz#, and allows planning, budgeting, forecasting etc which can reach all users in an org and also by using the common end user tools like MS Excel.
The pricing was out two weeks back and the pricing model is considered interesting and probably would play an important factor in tempting the buyers, as it gives them the economic advanatage over the competitors. Well this was expected from MS as this has been it's strategy. And from what ever i have seen so far about PPS, i think the functionalities as well can tempt the buyers, not just the pricing:).
I have just started to work on this and it defenetly seems interesting to start with , ofcourse there is lot more for me to do and may be even for the Micrsoft to do.I intend to keep posting on the same.
This URL gives some info on PPS
http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/help/HA101639481033.aspx