What Do You Care About PerformancePoint Server 2007?

This is an August07 article but it ties to the current article just below-

What Do You Care About PerformancePoint Server 2007?: "In a recent poll, 78 percent of SQL Server Magazine readers said they wanted to learn more about Microsoft’s new business-performance management application, PerformancePoint Server (PPS) 2007, and another 4 percent said they were already testing it. Those numbers indicate that a lot of database implementers are interested in a product Microsoft is pitching to business decision makers (BDMs) rather than technical decision makers (TDMs). According to Bill Baker, general manager of Microsoft’s business intelligence (BI) applications division, just about the only involvement that SQL Server professionals should have with PPS is making sure their data is “right, clean, consistent, integrated…. That’s the domain of SQL Server.” Baker and Microsoft are emphatic that PPS is “just an application” like any other business application and that its intended importance is in giving end users access to BI capability without the need for IT intervention. . . ."