7.1. What Is a PerformancePoint Scorecard?

PerformancePoint 2007, previously known as Microsoft Business Scorecard Manager, is an improved scorecard design and delivery application—wrapped inside a Dashboard Designer that contains the scorecard and associated charts and grids. Earlier versions of PerformancePoint (Business Scorecard Manager) required significant work by online analytical processing (OLAP) cube designers to generate custom Multidimensional Expressions (MDX) queries in support of the scorecards.

PerformancePoint changes this paradigm, where the integrated Scorecard Designer allows us to drag and drop Key Performance Indicators and SQL Server 2005 Analysis Services cube measures and dimensions onto a design canvas where the resulting ...

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