Is there sufficient visibility of team and corporate goals within the organization? Are you able to check progress against team, division and corporate goals? Do you have a good understanding of what is happening at any given time within your organization? Are you able to change the course of action? Are you able to make these decisions at the right time?

Having this information for monitoring in easily consumable form is critical to effective performance management. Microsoft Office PerformancePoint Server 2007 offers rich visualizations, user-friendly design, and an integrated ability to work with the familiar Microsoft Office system environment. All this makes it easy to build, personalize, manage, and deploy the robust scorecards and dashboards that enable your people to continually monitor what's happening within your organization.

Scorecards and Dashboards help executives and front line managers monitor performance and represent strategy, targets, current status and trends as easily consumable Key Performance Indicators (KPI's).

Dashboards will give you a quick snapshot of what is happening with your team, divisional or corporate performance. A dashboard is a visual representation of data and could be a collection of several web-parts (e.g. scorecard, chart, report, excel services, etc.) that can be easily customized as per your requirements.

Scorecards will provide a summary of your company's strategy in the form of KPI's against organizational objectives and strategy that is used to monitor plan, targets and current status. It could also allow information seekers and analysts to further drill down into details enabling them to make important decisions, whether to change the plan or course of action.