Introduction

How is a dashboard like a poem? In the immortal words of the poet Elizabeth Barrett Browning “let me count the ways.” Like a good poem, a good dashboard is elegant, brief, and to the point. In a good dashboard, every object (word) counts, and in a good dashboard you get a lot of meaningful information compressed into a small space.

How does this relate to PerformancePoint Services 2010, and why should you care? If you are reading this book, you might not care about poems, but you certainly care about business intelligence. Dashboards are at the heart of business intelligence solutions, and business intelligence solutions ...

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