I attended a special interest group on 03/11/08 (first timer) on Business Intelligence.  Really interested stuff.  Performance Point Server 2007 was the topic and the guest speaker was Craig Utley.  Now this is the way to create reports!

PPS2007 allows businesses to monitor their performance through easy-to-use Scorecards and Dashboards. The most common data source for the monitoring service is cubes.  Users can view data across multiple dimensions. They can drill down or across dimensions with just a click.

The actual setup is time consuming and involves the business decision makers of the company and those with the financial background to analyze and create the plan.  Your job as the programmer is to create the application and once set up the plan can easily be modified if/when necessary.

The application can handle just about any size business but is pricey, $20,000 and $195/user.  This price includes 2 servers, PPS2007 and ProClarity.  You publish your applications with Sharepoint.  However, it was brought to our attention the next release of Performance Point Server may no longer work with the free version of Sharepoint.

My company could use some sharp looking reports and graphs to identify sales, trends, forecasting, etc.  However, I don't see us purchasing PPS2007 any time in the near future.  I've recently been appointed to incorporate BI into the company and I'm looking forward to the opportunity.