New offering in Performance manager

other Performance Management
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Hi,

I just wanted to know, if there is any new offering in BO Performance Manager and what all going to change?

Regards,
Vivek.

vivek.pandey.cs (BOB member since 2010-04-13)

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Vivek,

I don’t think there will be any new developments in Performance Manager as SAP Strategy Management is the designated go forward product for scorecarding/performance management.

Regards

Colin Cooper
ISSEL
www.issel.co.uk

ColinCooper :uk: (BOB member since 2010-02-09)

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e, I’m not pretty sure about this… just remembered ever hear from our manager, no more new release and technical support to PM, will be substituted by Xcelsius…

nicoleflopy :cn: (BOB member since 2009-10-23)

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Perfomance Manager was a terrible tool, IMO. However, I do not see Xcelcius as a replacement enterprise level dashboarding tool, This is something Business Objects is lacking…

Mak 1 :uk: (BOB member since 2005-01-06)

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It depends what you want to achieve. Xcelcius is excellent at visualising limited sets of data. Where you want to be able to drill further into operational data then WebI becomes more appropriate.

But Performance Manager and now SAP Strategy Management are targeting a different issue - the ability to communicate the organisation’s strategy so promoting alignment, show progress towards the achievement of those Objectives whilst being able to drill into the segments within those KPIs and report on the underlying metrics, and manage the initiatives that you put in place to ensure performance improvement actually happens. You can cascade scorecards throughout the organisation so that strategy becomes relevant at all levels and everyone is on the same page.

Regards

ColinCooper :uk: (BOB member since 2010-02-09)

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Sorry Colin,
it probably was a bit of a flippant statement - it was early this morning :). I agree Xcelcuis is fine with small data sets, although it is still extremely unstable, IMO.
My main point should have been, that people tend to misuse it, thinking its a replacement for a performance management tool and then run into limtations or poor performance.

Cheers,

Mark.

Mak 1 :uk: (BOB member since 2005-01-06)

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Tell me about it! Our place want pretty Xcelsius dashboards then want to be able to drill 4 levels down into many 1000’s of data rows. Instantaneously. Because their current excel/VB macro offering does that. When I tell them Xcelsius won’t do it, they don’t believe me. Because that’s what they bought Xcelsius to do - despite my telling them it wouldn’t in the first place…

debbie

Debbie :uk: (BOB member since 2005-03-01)