PerformancePoint Monitoring Architecture

PerformancePoint Server gives users browser access to key performance indicators, which provide visual and numeric indicators of important business metrics; scorecards, which are tables of related KPIs; and dashboards, which are complex reports that display scorecards along with supplemental information, such as charts and graphs.

Business analysts will construct KPIs, scorecards, and dashboards with a new client application called the Dashboard Designer. The Dashboard Designer interacts with a Web application called the Monitoring Server to connect to the data sources for the KPIs, scorecards, and dashboards and allows analysts to preview these items before publishing them to Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 or SharePoint Server 2007 Web sites. Information about KPIs, scorecards, and dashboards created with the Dashboard Designer is stored in a SQL Server database called the Monitoring System Database (not shown), which can reside on the same server as the Monitoring Server Web application or a separate server.