Create a Balanced Scorecard by using Dashboard Designer

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Applies to: SharePoint Server 2010 Enterprise

PerformancePoint Services in Microsoft SharePoint Server 2010 enables you to create and use powerful dashboards. This includes a Balanced Scorecard.

A Balanced Scorecard provides a high-level view of organizational performance at a glance. In PerformancePoint Services, a Balanced Scorecard consists of a dashboard page that contains a scorecard and a corresponding strategy map. The scorecard and the strategy map show performance information for key performance indicators (KPIs) across four main areas or perspectives:

  • Financial perspective   KPIs for productivity, revenue, growth, usage, and overall shareholder value.

  • Customer perspective   KPIs for customer acquisition, customer satisfaction rates, market share, and brand strength.

  • Internal perspective   KPIs for resource usage, inventory turnover rates, order fulfillment, and quality control.

  • Learning and growth perspective   KPIs for employee retention, employee satisfaction, and employee training and development.

An example Balanced Scorecard might resemble the following image:

Simple example of a Balanced Scorecard

This example was created by using PerformancePoint Services. The articles in this section describe how to create a similar Balanced Scorecard that you can use in your organization.

How to create a Balanced Scorecard

To create a Balanced Scorecard by using PerformancePoint Services, you typically use the following process:

  1. Identify the KPIs that you want to use. Make a list of those KPIs and the data sources that you must have to create them. For the example Balanced Scorecard, we use a SQL Server Analysis Services cube, a table that is stored in SQL Server, and several fixed values that we enter manually to create the KPIs.

  2. Create a scorecard that includes KPIs across the financial, customer, internal, and learning and growth perspectives. To create a scorecard that resembles the example, see Create a scorecard for a Balanced Scorecard by using Dashboard Designer.

  3. Create a strategy map that uses a Microsoft Visio diagram to represent the four perspectives described earlier in this article. To create a strategy map that resembles the example, see Create and configure a strategy map as part of a Balanced Scorecard that you create by using Dashboard Designer.

  4. Add the scorecard and strategy map to a dashboard page, and publish it to SharePoint Server 2010. For more information, see Assemble and publish a Balanced Scorecard by using Dashboard Designer.

Before you begin, make sure that you open PerformancePoint Dashboard Designer.

How to open Dashboard Designer

You can open Dashboard Designer by using the Business Intelligence Center.

To install and open Dashboard Designer

  1. Open the Business Intelligence Center site in a Web browser.

    Tip

    The Web site address (URL) to the Business Intelligence Center typically takes the form http://<ServerName>/sites/BICenter. If you do not know the location of the Business Intelligence Center site, contact a SharePoint administrator.

  2. In the Business Intelligence Center, click a section — for example, Monitor Key Performance, Build and Share Reports, or Create Dashboards.

    More information about each area is displayed in the center pane.

  3. In the center of the page, click a Start using PerformancePoint Services link.

    The PerformancePoint site template opens.

  4. Click Run Dashboard Designer.

After you have opened Dashboard Designer at least one time, you can open it from the Start menu on your computer. To do that, click Start, and then click All Programs. Locate SharePoint, and then click PerformancePoint Dashboard Designer. Alternatively, you can continue to open Dashboard Designer from the Business Intelligence Center.

Important

Before you begin to create items by using Dashboard Designer, make sure that you have at least Design permissions assigned to you in SharePoint Server. Also make sure that you have at least Read permissions to the data sources that you want to use for the Balanced Scorecard. For more information, contact a SharePoint administrator.

See Also

Concepts

Plan, design, and implement a PerformancePoint dashboard
Business intelligence scenarios and solutions