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Tuesday, December 05, 2006

Microsoft Office PerformancePoint Server 2007 CTP

Microsoft today announced the release of the first community technology preview (CTP) for its integrated performance management application Microsoft Office PerformancePoint Server 2007.
Scheduled for general availability in mid-2007, Office PerformancePoint Server 2007 brings together next-generation monitoring, analytics and planning capabilities in a complete performance management application.

Beginning today, customers can visit
http://connect.microsoft.com/site/sitehome.aspx?siteid=181 to download the first bits of code and test the product's capabilities in a real-worldbusiness environment.

Microsoft Office PerformancePoint Server 2007 Datasheets can be found
here.

Update:
"If you look at the questions that business users have, there are basically five categories: What happened, what is happening, why, what will happen and what do I want to happen. Reporting is classically how we look at what happened. Dashboards and scorecards are how we look at what is happening. Analytics of various types are how we look at why. And then there’s planning software."

Read the full Q&A here