Drive Business PerformancePlan more effectively, align with strategic initiatives,

and make better business decisions.

Effective performance management starts with strategy, turns strategy into action, and action into achievable goals. Performance management solutions offer tools to help you define key objectives and metrics and to align your workforce towards a common understanding of strategy and goals.

Microsoft and its partners offer comprehensive end-to-end performance management solutions that are cost effective, highly scalable, and that easily integrate with your existing systems.

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Performance management solutions built on familiar Microsoft technologies empower yourworkforce with the tools they need to improve planning, strategic alignment, and decision making. Based on industry standards, Microsoft products are easy to use, cost effective, and work with infrastructure already in place in many organizations.

Get up-to-the minute results and versatile reporting capabilities to meet your evolving business needs. Help your people efficiently track projects and applications throughout their life cycles. Align performance targets with activities that drive business priorities.

With Microsoft applications, you can quickly access high quality information from multiple data sources to help identify trends and predict results. This helps improve planning, budgeting,forecasting, and other essential financial functions.

Empower people throughout the organizationwith the right information to make better business decisions.

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And with a vast ecosystem of experienced solution providers, software vendors, and support organizations for all major industries and functions, you can feel assured that you are getting the right performance management solution for your organization.

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Microsoft helps people throughout your organization efficiently track performance againstgoals. Share objectives, monitor tasks, annotate scorecards, establish discussions, and put insight into action by tying strategy to accountability.

Track your business against strategic objectives.

In addition, collaborative portals help peopleefficiently manage daily logistical tasks to their completion. Teams can monitor submissions and approvals and share status, schedules, and other information. Your workforce can even receive data-driven alerts and notifications on mobile devices.

Whatever industry you’re in, Microsoft providesvisibility into your organization’s performance, helping you monitor and take action in a familiar and collaborative environment. Get a snapshot of your operations using personalized Microsoft Office SharePoint dashboards and key performance indicators (KPIs). Pinpoint root causes of sales results so people can take decisive action. Maximizeinvestment returns, effectively manage risk, and reduce operational costs while improving financial transparency. Transform supply chains to demand-driven, synchronized, and highly secure supply networks.

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Make the most of your existing Microsoft productsWith the 2007 Microsoft Office system as the front end gateway to corporate data, your employees can access and analyze business information with tools they already use on their desktops. Additional performance management products work easily with your existing systems, so you can start using the solution sooner while reducing on-going maintenance and training costs.

Streamline processes Unified communication and collaboration features help bring together people, processes, and information across corporate offices, districts, and individual managers. Automated workflow tools speed business processes, reduce errors, provide greater transparency, and improve compliance. Tasks can be assigned, tracked, and updated for effective workload and resource allocation.

Enable sound decision-making at every levelWith Microsoft performance management tools, people throughout your organization can make more informed decisions, set and track objectives that align with corporate goals, and execute better on firm strategy. They can create, customize, analyze, and securely share reports without the need for IT involvement. Role-based dashboards and portals provide timely, personalized views of the business, providing the right information to people where they work, collaborate, and make decisions.

Performance management for all.

With Microsoft technology, you get:• Complete and integrated performance management • Pervasive delivery of business intelligence through Microsoft Office • A cost-effective solution for widespread adoption by people in all levels and roles

Performance management solutions might use the following Microsoft products:• Microsoft Office Professional Plus 2007 (especially Excel)• Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007• Microsoft Office PerformancePoint Server 2007• ProClarity Analytics 6• Microsoft SQL Server 2005 Enterprise Edition• Microsoft Office Visio 2007• Duet for Microsoft Office and SAP• Microsoft Office Project Server 2007

For more information on the Microsoft “Drive Business Performance” customer campaign, please visit: www.microsoft.com/business/peopleready/performance

Microsoft delivers security-enhanced, end-to-end performance management features with flexible analytics and reporting for people throughout your enterprise.

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