KPI’s in Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007

Key Performance Indicators (KPI’s) are metrics used to quantify objectives to reflect an organization's strategic performance. See the article at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Key_performance_indicators for more information about KPIs.
Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 has built in features that allow you to manage and display KPI information in various ways. KPI indicators can be derived from a SharePoint list, an Excel Workbook, data in Microsoft SQL Server 2005 Analysis Services and manually entered information. I'm going to show you how to create a KPI list and manually populate it with data.
Lets create a Sales Analysis KPI list and see what results can be displayed. To get started, choose a site that's currently not in production use, such as a private sub-site.

for more information goto - http://msd2d.com/Content/Tip_viewitem_03NoAuth.aspx?id=6baa8ed2-40b2-4ed4-b7c7-c7a646ca92d1&section=Sharepoint

Microsoft Dynamics CRM 3.0

What is Microsoft Dynamics CRM Analytics Foundation?

Microsoft Dynamics CRM Analytics Foundation is a business intelligence solution accelerator for Microsoft Dynamics CRM 3.0 customers and partners. With Analytics Foundation, executives can better track and manage business performance with dashboards and KPIs. Managers and employees can create reports quickly and make better decisions. Sales, marketing, and service employees can identify and act on new opportunities to grow revenue and improve business efficiency with predictive analytics. Analytics Foundation includes an OLAP cube (UDM) built on the default Microsoft CRM 3.0 schema, dashboards for sales and service, and predictive analytics such as product recommendation, lead potential rating, marketing list generation, and more. Analytics Foundation leverages data management and analytics technologies from the Microsoft Business Intelligence suite of products including SQL Server 2005, SharePoint, Business Scorecard Manager, Excel, and PerformancePoint Server 2007 (when available).

Service dashboard in SharePoint with scorecards, KPIs, and supporting reports

Ad-hoc reporting of Microsoft Dynamics CRM 3.0 data in Excel 2007. The spreadsheet is connected to Analytics Foundation OLAP cube (UDM).

click on the link below
http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa972194.aspx

Predictive lead potential rating in Microsoft Dynamics CRM 3.0. Automatic scoring of leads is based on their likelihood to convert to successful opportunities.

For more information goto http://www.microsoft.com/dynamics/crm/using/deploy/integratesharept.mspx

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Did You Know

The jvmstat technology adds light weight performance and configuration instrumentation to the HotSpot JVM and provides a set of monitoring APIs and tools for monitoring the performance of the HotSpot JVM in production environments. The instrumentation is designed such that it is 'always on', yet has negligible performance impact.

Xcelsius dashboards

Crystal Xcelsius and Crystal Xcelsius Workgroup are the new standard in interactive data visualization software.
With Crystal Xcelsius, you can transform your complex data into visually stunning dashboards, financial calculators, forecast reports, and much more.

Link to the sample dashboard http://resources.businessobjects.com/support/cx/samples/download_45/ent_dashboard/enterprise_dashboard.swf

*Point-and-click ease. Crystal Xcelsius' intuitive interface, including pre-built components, skins, maps and charts, and one-click export, make it easy for non-technical users to develop business dashboards in less than an hour.

*Custom graphics and interactivity allow you to develop and present compelling yet easy-to-understand financial reports, sales forecasts reports, and more. All this can be done via the Web, MS Office, MS SharePoint, Adobe PDF, and any environment that supports Flash.

*Visual modeling. Sliders, gauges, filters, numerical input tools, and other visual components allow you to quickly evaluate multiple "what-if" scenarios in real-time, with the click of a mouse.
*Platform independence.

For more information goto -http://www.businessobjects.com/jump/crystalxcelsius/land/g_rightclick.asp?extcmp=xcel_google_xtm_Xcelsius

Famous Quote

If you have an apple and I have an apple and we exchange apples, then you and I will still each have one apple. But if you have an idea and I have an idea and we exchange these ideas, then each of us will have two ideas.


- G.B Shaw