Chapter 7. PerformancePoint Services Development

IN THIS CHAPTER Data Connections Building Key Performance Indicators Developing Scorecards Creating Reports Filtering Data Constructing Dashboards User Interaction with the Decomposition Tree

PerformancePoint Services is a highly visual, interactive, analytical component of Microsoft’s business intelligence (BI) stack. Its main purpose is to surface data from established data sources to allow insight into how a company is performing using different metrics that are deemed valuable for the targeted audience. Through the use of dashboard development, managers and analysts can analyze trends, performance indicators, and analytical reports all in one page and then have the option to drill into a specific area of the data to ask and answer questions about company performance.