Hello,
I would like to know what is the difference between Proclarity Dashboard Server and Business Scorecard Manager. I tried to search on the internet but couldn't find any. I know that both are Microsoft products. Suppose i have proclarity desktop professional installed, which tool is better to use as interface for users? Could anyone tell me what are the features that distinguish each so that i would know which is more suitable for my requirements?
Thanks in advance
Christina
Hello. Business Scorecard Manager (BSM)is the choice if you woud like to build balanced scorecards.
ProClarity Professional cannot publish reports to BSM but only to Sharepoint, ProClarity Analytics server and ProClarity Dashboard server.
However, this will change in a new product about to be released, called Performance Point.
Both ProClarity and BSM will be integrated into this product.
HTH
Thomas Ivarsson
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Thanks for your reply.
Could you please clarify what you mean by balanced scorecards?Doesn't Proclarity dashboard provide balanced scorecard?
Another question please:
The proclarity dashboard uses the views from the PAS to integrate it in the dashboard.
The BSM, how does it construct its views? does it use the office tools or it has is own view designer?
Thanks
Christina
|||Hello! With BSM you can create measure or KPI hierarchies with parent KPI
giving different weight to child measures or KPI . There is no way that you can do that in Proclarity professional. You can build KPI in the KPI-builder or present KPI that are built in Analysis Services 2005, but they will always be presented flat, not in a KPI hierarchy.
Balanced Scorecard is a large topic to discuss here but if you search on that word or 'Northon Kaplan' you will find more information.
A Dashboard is not by itself a Balanced Scorecard, like you will find out when you read about the theory.
I think that BSM mostly use Office webcomponents for views.
Regards
Thomas Ivarsson
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Hi, Christina,
If you have Business ScoredCard Manager 2005 installed, try it and you will see from the scoredcard point of view that you can get more out of it compared what you can get from ProClarity Dashboard.
Basically, ProClarity dashbord intergrate 4 types of views: ProClarity analytics view, KPI view which you can either create from dashboard studio or ProClarity professional or Analysis Services, Web page view, and finally Note view which you can post your comments.
While with Business ScoredCard Manager 2005, you can better manage your scoreds into objectives etc. And importantly, you can build your scoredcards with data coming from both of relational database source and multi-dimensional data source. And you can publish your business scorecard views into SharePoint site or SQL Server 2005 Reporting Services. Also, you can add reports views together with your ScoreCard views to let users have a more information.
Significantly, it is very excited that with the seamless integration between ProClairty and Business Scorecard Manager 2005, you can integrate business scorecard views with ProClarity analytic views, thus you can jump from Business ScoredCard view to ProClarity Analytic client to drill down to analyse more behind your scorecard views.
Also, as Thomas kindly advised, Performance Point will be an excited release to see more out of it.
Hope it helps.
Kind Regards,
Yours sincerely,
|||Thank you Thomas and Helen for your replies.
I looked for Balanced Scorecard on the net and got your point about it. I just need to install the trial version of BSM to try it.
I am now interested in knowing about the Performance Point. Do you know when it will be released? I am not very satisfied with the performance of Proclarity Dashboard and want to study the possibility of moving to BSM with the Performance point.
Thanks for your help
Regards,
Christina
|||Hello Christina!
Performance Point will be released between september and november this year.
It is possible to try the beta version here: http://www.connect.microsoft.com/
HTH
Thomas Ivarsson
|||Thank you Thomas for your help
Regards,
Christina
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