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Rich Scorecard Functionality

Business Scorecard Manager empowers you to build your own scorecards using the familiar Microsoft Office interface and tools. With Business Scorecard Manager, you get rich functionality for creating new workspaces that include all of the necessary elements for building business scorecards. Take advantage of a wide variety of data sources such as databases, spreadsheets, or another electronic format from which numeric values can be derived to provide you with the functionality you need to map KPIs to relevant data.
Flexible Scorecards Capitalizing on the power of the Microsoft Office system, Business Scorecard Manager
provides flexible scorecards that you can easily customize to fit your business needs.
Some of the features include:
=> Business definitions that cascade and roll up across organizations.
=> Views that support easy browsing (such as by time or location).
=> Templates that can be easily created and reused.
=> A single interface for viewing operational status, enabling companies to combine real-time data with historical data, analytical tools, policies, and processes.
Business Scorecard Manager provides Web Parts to easily deploy scorecard report views directly to a SharePoint site. Users can also deliver scorecard information directly to applications such as the Microsoft Office system.

Customized Views
Customized views in Business Scorecard Manager give different views of the same scorecard, providing a deeper understanding of business information. Using the configuration setting, you can produce a wide range of views such as all of the KPIs relevant to a scorecard or only a subset of the KPIs. In any viewing instance, all of the information located in one scorecard element remains there, meaning you don’t have to
worry about losing information.

Deep Contextual Insight
The KPI framework within Business Scorecard Manager provides a rich, central repository for defining key metrics and scorecards. Using powerful drill-down capabilities, personalized scorecards, reports, and analysis tools with unstructured data, Business Scorecard Manager enables you to build KPIs that provide deep contextual insight into your organization. The KPIs in Business Scorecard Manager are designed for reuse and customization.
Some of the features available for KPIs include:
=> Multiple-targeting available out of the box.
=> Metadata definitions for drilling down into supporting documentation, reports, and charts.
=> Role-based permissions.

KPI Grouping
To eliminate the hassle of having to search through individual KPIs for specific data, Business Scorecard Manager enables you to group KPIs into objectives. You also get quick access to overall performance summary. Objectives enable you to compare a summary to one of the source elements, giving you a better indication of a part in relation to the whole piece of data.

                            Fig: Hierarchies and business logic build across multiple data sources.

Simplified Indicators
To effectively display your KPIs, Business Scorecard Manager comes with easy-tounderstand icons like stoplights (red, yellow, and green), gauges, and heat maps that show the relative significance of a KPI metric against a target benchmark. These easilycustomized indicators provide great graphical, textual, and color representations of the status of elements in a scorecard. They’re also easy to share within a business.
Scorecards can be exported to Excel with a simple right-click.

                  Fig: Red, yellow, and green icons help display KPIs exportable to Excel.

Strategy Map Visualization
To create a powerful visual representation of your strategy, Business Scorecard Manager offers Strategy Map Builder. This feature enables you to use the rich functionality of to publish your KPIs and corporate initiatives in a process flow diagram. The clear graphical interface provides precise interpretation of data and easy-to-understand graphical representations. Sales results tracked in Business Scorecard Manager can also
be presented in a geographical context through MapPoint.

                              Fig: Viewing a strategy map in Business Scorecard Manager.