The Rational Guide to Monitoring and Analyzing with Microsoft Office PerformancePoint Server 2007 or Head Rush Ajax

The Rational Guide to Monitoring and Analyzing with Microsoft Office PerformancePoint Server 2007

Author: Nick Barclay

Microsoft Office PerformancePoint Server 2007 (PPS) is a complete performance management solution, allowing companies to monitor their progress toward goals, analyze information, plan, budget, and forecast using dynamic modeling tools. Using interactive dashboards, PPS enables the integration of refined data from one or more sources into a single point-of-contact for key performance indicators, which are directly aligned to corporate strategies and goals.

This book will bring you up to speed on the Monitoring and Analytics features of PPS 2007. Topics include performance management theory, PPS installation and configuration, the Dashboard Designer, and the six Monitoring elements. Advanced topics include deployment, security, and scoring.

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Head Rush Ajax

Author: Brett McLaughlin

Ajax, or Asynchronous JavaScript and XML, is a term describing the latest rage in web development. Ajax is used to create interactive web applications with XML-based web services, and using JavaScript in the web browser to process the web server response. End users see a more responsive application on the web, often with client-like functionality. Ajax reduces the amount of data interchanged between the web browser and web server, which saves processing and speeds up the web experience.

Written by a team of award-winning authors, Head Rush Ajax takes the reader beyond basic web development with DHTML and JavaScript and explains how asynchronous data requests and more powerful event models can be used in the Ajax methodology.