Whether you’re an accounting professional, a sales and marketing executive, or an important contributor on the shop floor, you each face the same challenge—to harness the relevant Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) that will help you do your part in moving the organization forward.
Microsoft Business Scorecard Manager, which is now a part of PerformancePoint Services within Microsoft SharePoint, links directly to your Microsoft Dynamics application suite data, enabling you to make sense and gain valuable insight into your key business drivers. Being able to monitor key indicators in one convenient, consistent view can allow you to:
- Gain insight into the current status and trends of key financial ratios that can help you optimize the financial performance of your business.
- Evaluate the effectiveness and profitability of your sales channels.
- Monitor and measure key operational performance metrics and see how adjustments improve efficiency and control costs.
Microsoft Business Scorecard Manager offers important capabilities to define, capture, and display key performance indicators in a rich graphical dashboard display. Combined with dynamic drilldown support, Business Scorecard Manager can reveal important historical trends and gives your organization the ability to analyze data out of key documents, spreadsheets and even Web sites. And it’s all accomplished in a familiar environment because Microsoft Business Scorecard Manager uses and works with Microsoft Office and Microsoft SharePoint to allow end users to easily build, manage, and use KPIs and scorecards.
No matter the size of the organization, some issues remain unchanged—executives find it difficult to match tactical activities and day-to-day operations to overarching corporate objectives. Managers find it tough to see the relationship between a widely diverse set of business processes and the key business drivers that affect the future performance of the organization. Individuals wrestle with finding role-relevant information they can act on that will make a difference on the front lines. Everyone—from executives and managers to staff—awaits the day when they can finally access data that is meaningful to their specific roles and responsibility in a convenient, clear, and consistent manner. Today, that wait is over.
With “out-of-the-box,” straight-forward methods to move key financial, CRM, and supply chain data to Microsoft SQL Server Analysis Services cubes, Microsoft Dynamics customers can quickly take advantage of the rich key performance indicator (KPI) capabilities. With Microsoft Business Scorecard Manager, they can view company data in a comprehensive application that provides all employees with deep, contextual insight into important business drivers.