Business Objects Performance Manager

BusinessObjects Performance Manager helps organizations communicate strategy, manage performance, and provide people with the information they need to make decisions and act with confidence. Through goal-setting and scorecards, individuals and teams can track achievement, collaborate with others, and follow recommended actions to improve organizational performance.

With scorecards, you can measure performance and discuss it with other group members to help you make decisions.

View a scorecard to measure performance versus goals. zoom in	Click the scorecard to start a threaded discussion. zoom in

Performance Manager takes full advantage of your existing investments in business intelligence (BI), analytics, and enterprise reporting. It also supports a range of popular management methodologies such as Balanced Scorecard (BSC), Total Quality Management (TQM), and Six Sigma.

Communicate Strategy and Make Group Decisions

Performance Manager provides strategy maps to help you visualize and communicate organizational objectives to everyone. In addition, through threaded discussions around key goals and metrics, teams can share insight, quickly reach consensus, and make better group decisions.

With strategy maps, you can see how key metrics impact top-line performance.

View a strategy map to see status of objectives. zoom in	Drill into a metric tree for details on cause and effect. zoom in	Click to compare performance to goals over time. zoom in

Manage Performance with Goals and Scorecards

Performance Manager provides you with an easy-to-use interface for defining and modifying goals, and assigning accountability from the most senior executive level across teams and individuals in the organization.

Performance Manager's advanced scorecards provide an intuitive way to track and analyze organizational performance at a glance.

Additionally, you can drill into integrated reporting and analysis to understand trends and root-cause of performance issues faster.

Act with Confidence via Recommended Actions

Performance Manager allows you to assign actions to individuals and groups of people. This reduces time to action by alerting stakeholders when goals aren’t being met and providing a set of recommended actions to quickly diagnose and fix a performance problem. Performance Manager creates an audit trail of which actions were taken so you can build trusted best practices to further optimize organizational performance going forward.