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Drive Business Performance with Scorecards

In any business, aligning employee activities to company objectives can be a challenging task. An integrated approach to CPM with Business Scorecard Manager provides greater insight into business performance with less cost and effort than traditional solutions. With Business Scorecard Manager, your business can effectively and efficiently track performance against company goals, leading to a leaner and more agile business that can take advantage of quickly changing market conditions.

Simplified Collaboration
With Business Scorecard Manager, you can share strategies, monitor tasks, annotate scorecards, establish discussions, and put insight into action by tying strategy to accountability so you can execute on your strategic plans. Information is delivered in a collaborative environment for effective business management in your performance-driven organization.

Rich Scorecard Functionality
Business Scorecard Manager is based on scorecarding best practices and is certified by the Balanced Scorecard Collaborative. By combining rich scorecard functionality with reports, charts, graphs, and analysis tools, you can evaluate relationships between key performance indicators (KPIs) and tangible business objectives.
=> Flexible scorecards are easy to read and customize.
=> Customized views empower you to choose how to present your information.
=> Customized KPIs enable you to measure what’s important to your organization and gain deep contextual insight.
=> KPI grouping helps you place individual KPIs into one objective, so you can compare parts to the whole.
=> Enhanced central security capitalizes on data security at the row and column level.
=> Simplified indicators help make it easier to understand the relative values of your data and enhance your visual presentation.
=> Rich visualization through applications such as Microsoft Office Visio and Microsoft MapPoint enable you to present a precise interpretation of data in a way that makes sense to you while maintaining the connection to the underlying data.

Scalable Platform
Business Scorecard Manager fully integrates with Office SharePoint Server 2007 and Microsoft SQL Server 2005 Analysis Services, the industry's leading online analytical processing (OLAP) engine, providing easily deployed scorecards that show multidimensional data for collaboration through SharePoint sites.
=> Web-enabled capabilities provide security-enhanced and easy-to-use access to scorecards through the Internet.
=> SQL Server Analysis Services integration enables you to draw data from a multi-dimensional database as the source for scorecard KPIs.
=> SQL Server Reporting Services integration enables you to schedule delivery of scorecards and use scorecards in disconnected mode.
=> SharePoint site integration enables broad scorecard deployment and teamwork that ultimately leads to better decision-making.