Microsoft PerformancePoint Server Launch Sept 19 Microsoft will take the wraps off its long-awaited PerformancePoint Server on Sept. 19, a move that's likely to expand the company's already considerable presence in the business intelligence software market. PerformancePoint, officially Microsoft Office PerformancePoint Server 2007, is Microsoft's entry in the rapidly growing market for performance management applications used for monitoring, analyzing and planning business activities. Traditional business intelligence software vendors Business Objects and Cognos already compete in this space while Oracle and SAP, through their recent acquisitions of Hyperion Solutions and OutlookSoft, respectively, are also expanding into performance management.
PerformancePoint Server will incorporate Microsoft's current Business Scorecard Manager product and technology Microsoft picked up last year in its acquisition of ProClarity, an analytics software vendor. Last week Microsoft issued its fourth and final community technology preview (CTP) release of the product.
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