Microsoft announces Microsoft Office Performance Point Server PPS 2007 CTP 3 Release

PPS 2007 CTP 3 release is available on microsoft connect website

Whats New in CTP 3?

• Planning Server functionality, features, and documentation are the same as in our April CTP2 release.
• Monitoring Server has updated functionality, features, and documentation for this release.

Microsoft has announced two new CTP programs:

1. Management Reporter is a reporting application designed to enable information workers to take control of their business by creating and analyzing feature rich reports. It is an application tailored to general users for creating, maintaining, deploying and viewing boardroom quality financial statements. Users can easily monitor the health of the business and quickly understand what’s happening at any point in time. Management Reporter integrates with the General Ledger (GL) system or Financial Data Mart (FDM) allowing users to run financial statements within minutes after installing the application.

2. The Data Integration Toolkit is a set of software, documentation, and samples designed to enable partners and customers to expose data from financial source systems in a standardized, contextual format for use in reporting, planning, monitoring and analytics scenarios.