I'm trying to bring awareness of a new product to the Gulf Coast and southeastern US and beyond. Last weeks anticipated release of PerformancePoint Server 2007 happened on schedule before the end of the year. While this is a new product that will see signficant change over the next several years, it will have an immediate impact in reducing costs for business of all sizes to implement and maintain an effective business planning and performance managment solution.
This is an attempt to help explain where the product is today, and determine what we can expect to gain from the first release of this product. Most of my exposure is with the Planning component, and the ability to create and use forms in Excel that will write back to SQL Server 2005 is the most exciting single use.