PerformancePoint in SharePoint brings BI to the Masses

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Microsoft Announces Updates to Business Intelligence Roadmap
A summary of this announcement is the decision to discontinue PerformancePoint Planning and merge PerformancePoint Monitoring & Analytics into SharePoint as PerformancePoint Services.

Customers Benefit with Business Intelligence at a lower TCO
Effective immediately, SharePoint enterprise customers can download PerformancePoint for free. Conversely, customers who bought PerformancePoint with software assurance can download SharePoint for free.

View this video with Guy Weismantel, Director of Microsoft BI, where he explains these changes and the future value Microsoft customers will gain from this strategy.

Also read the Q&A with Kurt DelBene, Senior VP of Office Business Platform Group at Microsoft. The interview gives some insight into the strategy announcement, why Microsoft made this decision, how planning customer will be supported and what the overall benefit to customers will be.

About CALUMO
The CALUMO Group (www.calumo.com), Microsoft BI Partner of the Year 2008, is a leading provider of Performance Management solutions for enterprise-wide reporting planning and Business Intelligence. Since 1998 the group has successfully delivered solutions to a wide range of enterprises from SME’s to some of the largest listed companies and government organisations. These solutions provide quantifiable and valuable business insight, offering a single platform from which to integrate Corporate, Financial and Operational performance and objectives.

The Group is a Microsoft Gold Certified Partner in Business intelligence (achieving full competency in both Platform and Performance Management Specializations), Data Management Solutions and ISV/Software Solutions.



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