Business Intelligence with Microsoft® Office PerformancePoint™ Server 2007 [Paperback]

Craig Utley (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: January 22, 2008

Deliver BI Solutions with Microsoft Office PerformancePoint Server 2007

Maximize the powerful BI tools available in PerformancePoint 2007 with help from this practical guide. You will learn how to collect and store data, monitor progress, analyze performance, distribute dynamic reports, and create maintainable projects and forecasts. Business Intelligence with Microsoft Office PerformancePoint Server 2007 provides full details on creating scorecards and dashboards, performing advanced analysis on data, and setting up business plans. You will also learn how to integrate PerformancePoint with ProClarity, Excel 2007, and SQL Server Reporting Services.

• Configure, deploy, and secure all the PerformancePoint components
• Create KPIs, scorecards, reports, and dashboards with the Dashboard Designer
• Create business models with the Planning Business Modeler and create budgets and forecasts with Excel 2007
• Enable advanced data analysis with PerformancePoint Server and ProClarity tools
• Take advantage of the enhanced analytic capabilities of Excel 2007
• Use SQL Server Reporting Services for analytics
• Align performance with organizational objectives

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About the Author

Craig Utley is a mentor with Solid Quality Mentors and a former Program Manager on the SQL Server Customer Advisory Team at Microsoft. He has been working with Microsoft's BI products since the beta of SQL Server 7, helping to author Microsoft's first data warehousing course and teaching it at Microsoft and many other companies.

Product Details

• Paperback: 358 pages
• Publisher: McGraw-Hill Osborne Media; 1 edition (January 22, 2008)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0071493700
• ISBN-13: 978-0071493703
• Product Dimensions: 9.2 x 7.4 x 0.9 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.4 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,060,163 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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4 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars I was a bit disapointed, September 8, 2008

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S. Lidberg (Sweden) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Business Intelligence with Microsoft® Office PerformancePoint™ Server 2007 (Paperback)

I was a bit disappointed

I must first say that Craig's book about PerformancePoint Server is a great introduction book to monitoring and analytics with PerformancePoint Server. For people like me that are looking for more on the planning side of the product I was disappointed. Only one out of 10 chapters contained information about planning the rest of the +300 pages is about various aspects of monitoring and analytics.
I think that the statement from Russ Whitney Development Manager tells everything about the book.
"An excellent introduction to PerformancePoint Server"

For people interested in planning they should choose another book.

5 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent overview of PerformancePoint and BI, March 26, 2008

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David K. Shroyer (Dixon, CA USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Business Intelligence with Microsoft® Office PerformancePointTM Server 2007 (Kindle Edition)

This is an excellent text if you are looking into moving toward the Microsoft BI platform. The book starts with a nice introduction which includes an overview of data warehousing, ETL, and cube creation. It then moves into quite a bit of detail with PerformancePoint.

Craig has a very conversational style of writing which was very much appreciated. (sometimes these types of books can be very dry)

Overall I would recommend this to anyone looking to purchase or implement PerformancePoint.

0 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars PPS 2007, July 29, 2008

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H. Lee (Arizona USA) - See all my reviews
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I like the book. The section beginning on page 215 was especially useful since there is a definite lack of information regarding Performance Point Server 2007. I liked this more than the Rational series because it was presented more clearly and easier to read. I recommend it to anyone interested in PPS 2007.