Microsoft previews upcoming PerformancePoint BI
CRN.com | at | by Mike
Microsoft on Tuesday released the first community technology preview of its upcoming PerformancePoint Server 2007, the vanguard of its planned push into the business intelligence market.
Scheduled for a mid-2007 release, PerformancePoint -- formerly code-named BizSharp -- will replace Microsoft's Business Scorecard Manager 2005 software and incorporate the technology that Microsoft picked up in its April acquisition of analytics firm ProClarity.
The initial CTP includes the BSM technology along with planning, budgeting, forecasting and financial consolidation features. A second CTP, scheduled for early 2007, is slated to add ProClarity's analytics tools.