Microsoft Office PerformancePoint Server Planning
Microsoft Office PerformancePoint Server Planning (PPS Planning) is an enterprise planning and forecasting application offered as part of the Microsoft Business Intelligence (BI) platform. Combining The Planning Server, Planning Business Modeler, and PerformancePoint Add-in for Excel. PPS Planning enables organizations to develop accurate and useful budgets and forecasts based on a foundation of actionable information from all areas of the business including finance, management, manufacturing, sales, marketing, and human resources.
PPS Planning allows companies to build a wide range of business models including sophisticated financial modeling in a dimension-based environment to enhance their budgeting and planning function.
Key product features:
- Familiar – It is built on the SQL Server platform and uses Excel for user input, reporting and analysis.
- Uses data from multiple systems, without altering or disrupting those systems, providing an accurate and consistent view into your business.
- Key business drivers and forecast assumptions are captured and maintained in the system, not offline.
- Allows business areas to create and manage their own business models and rules, while providing tops-down analysis and reporting.
- Built-in financial intelligence
- Financial modeling of standard financial statements (IS, BS, CF)
- Complex allocations
- Intercompany Capabilities
- Multi-Currency conversions
- Consolidation rules and adjustments for shared ownership
- Fully integrated role and template based security including a comprehensive audit trail to track all data and system changes.
- Process management and workflow functionality
- Dynamic reporting utilizes Excel Add-in to deliver practical and functional summary and detail reports with full drill-through capabilities.
Additional Resources
- Microsoft Office PerformancePoint Server 2007 – Home Page
- Microsoft Office PerformancePoint Server 2007 – Product Overview