Microsoft Office PerformancePoint Server 2007 is an integrated performance management application that enables you to manage, align, monitor, analyse, and plan your business. 

By providing flexible, easy-to-use tools for building Scorecards, dashboards, plans, and budgets, Office PerformancePoint Server 2007 can help everyone across your organisation make informed business decisions that align with company-wide objectives. 

Most people prefer not having to learn complicated new applications and organisations prefer to avoid investing IT hours and training time to support new tools that have little chance of widespread adoption. 

The infrastructure of PerformancePoint Server 2007 is built directly into the environment on your desktop today—Microsoft Office. Your people will not have to learn new software. They can use applications they already know, like Microsoft Office Excel and Office SharePoint Server. 

PerformancePoint Server 2007 is built on top of Microsoft SQL Server 2005, a proven platform for business intelligence, data integration, and reporting. SQL Server 2005 offers you a highly secure performance management environment and scales to support as many users as you want to include in the performance management process. 

As the application layer behind the scenes, PerformancePoint Server 2007 provides the tools and connections to make Microsoft Office the interface for decision-makers, SharePoint Server the way to deliver information, and SQL Server 2005 the data integration and collection engine. 

PerformancePoint Server 2007 and Project Portfolio Server 2007 are the two Microsoft applications which Manigent recommends and deploys as enabling technologies during client engagements.  

When we deploy these applications we seek to leverage the collaborative features of Sharepoint and the analytic capabilities of the entire Microsoft SQL Server 'BI stack' to deliver a robust end-to-end solution. 

Manigent undertakes such deployments using our project delivery methodology which is designed to integrate and align the technical workstream to the business change workstream to deliver projects which are on-time, on-budget and to expectations.