Microsoft Office PerformancePoint Server

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Microsoft Office PerformancePoint Server was Microsoft's enterprise performance management and business intelligence product, released in November 2007. It combined ProClarity’s planning and monitoring tools with SharePoint, and its features were later folded into SharePoint 2010 under PerformancePoint Services after the standalone product was discontinued in 2009. It had previews starting in mid-2006, built from Business Scorecard Manager 2005 and the Planning Server component, and benefited from the ProClarity and Great Plains acquisitions (including FRx and ProClarity 6.3).

The product had two main parts. Monitoring Server delivered dashboards, scorecards, KPIs, strategy maps, and navigable reports. Planning Server managed logical business models, budgeting workflows, and data sources, using Excel for input and SQL Server for storage, and it followed GAAP. Dashboards designed with the Dashboard Designer were published to Monitoring Server and then displayed as SharePoint pages that refresh data from OLAP cubes or relational sources when opened in a browser. Management Reporter handled financial reporting and could read PerformancePoint Planning models directly, with a development kit available to connect to other models. PerformancePoint ran on Windows and was proprietary software.