Microsoft Office PerformancePoint Server 2007 -- About the Authors -- Credits -- Acknowledgments -- Contents at a Glance -- Contents -- Foreword -- Introduction -- Who Should Read This Book -- How This Book Is Organized -- Part I: Performance Management and Microsoft PerformancePoint Server -- Chapter 1: Microsoft's Performance Management Strategy -- Traditional Approaches to Business Intelligence -- Personal, Team, and Organizational BI -- The Economic Model -- Summary -- Notes -- Chapter 2: Microsoft PerformancePoint Server Fundamentals -- Trusting Your Data - The Business Intelligence Platform -- Personal BI and Individual Productivity -- Team BI Tools and Collaboration -- Corporate BI and Alignment -- How Does the PerformancePoint Server Story Come Together? -- Monitor, Analyze, and Plan -- Summary -- Notes -- Chapter 3: Setting Up and Configuring PerformancePoint Servers -- Monitoring Server -- Installing and Configuring Monitoring Server -- Microsoft SharePoint Server Settings -- Best Practice Monitoring Server Installation -- Planning Server -- Installing and Configuring Planning Server -- Installing the Planning Clients -- Best Practice Planning Server Installation -- Summary -- Part II: PerformancePoint Monitoring and Analytics -- Chapter 4: PerformancePoint Monitoring and Analytics Architecture: Overview -- Product Overview -- System Architecture -- Application Concepts -- Workflow Concepts -- Summary -- Notes -- Chapter 5: Implementing Scorecards and KPIs -- Scorecards: Distributing Metrics to the Masses -- Scorecard Key Performance Indicators -- Summary -- Notes -- Chapter 6: Developing Effective Analytic Views -- Understanding OLAP -- Discover, Create, and Deploy -- Summary -- Chapter 7: Creating Effective Dashboards -- Successful Dashboards -- Creating and Deploying Dashboards -- Creating Interactive Dashboards Using Filters.

Creating Time Intelligence Filters -- Adding Reports -- Adding Filters to Dashboard Zones -- Enabling Filters for Analytic Grids and Charts -- Connecting Filters to Scorecard and Reports Views -- Using the Display Condition Option -- Connecting Scorecard KPIs to Report Views -- Centralizing Dashboard Elements -- Summary -- Chapter 8: Supplementing Dashboards with Reports -- Reports Answer the ''What?'' Question -- Strategy Maps -- Designing Effective Strategy Maps -- Creating Strategy Maps -- Excel Services -- Reporting Services -- Trend Charts -- Best Practices for Reports -- Summary -- Notes -- Chapter 9: Implementing Security Controls -- Application-Level Security -- Item-Level Security -- Summary -- Part III: PerformancePoint Planning -- Chapter 10: Planning Overview -- Product Overview -- System Architecture -- Clients -- Web Services -- Server -- Application Concepts -- Summary -- Notes -- Chapter 11: Application Components -- Business Application Type Library -- Dimensions -- Models -- Summary -- Chapter 12: Business Rules -- Calculation Engine Overview -- Business Rules Defined -- Financial Intelligence -- Summary -- Chapter 13: Data Integration -- Data Integration Architecture -- Data Integration Process -- Application Data Lifecycle -- Summary -- Chapter 14: Reports and Forms -- Excel Client -- Report Design -- Summary -- Chapter 15: Security and Roles -- System Security -- Application Security -- Data Security -- Summary -- Chapter 16: Data Process -- Process Flow Objects -- Data Process Flow -- Summary -- Chapter 17: Deployment and Migration -- Deployment and Scaling -- Application Migration -- Data Lifecycle -- Summary -- Part IV: Successfully Engaging Users in Monitoring, Analytics, and Planning -- Chapter 18: Bringing Monitoring, Analytics, and Planning Together -- MAP -- Understand Your Data -- Putting It Together: The How To.

Summary -- Chapter 19: Planning and Maintaining Successful Dashboards -- Ten Best Practices for Deploying Performance Dashboards -- Common Mistakes to Avoid When Deploying Performance Dashboards -- How to Know If You Have the Ability to Build Effective Performance Dashboards -- Summary -- Notes -- Chapter 20: Planning Application Development -- Implementation Best Practices - How to Get the Job Done -- PerformancePoint Server 2007 Planning - Changing the Paradigm -- Solution Implementations -- Summary -- Index.