TechNet Webcast: Strategic Planning and Scorecarding with PerformancePoint Server 2007 (Level 300)  

Microsoft Office PerformancePoint Server 2007 can help organizations improve their business performance by integrating monitoring, analysis, and planning capabilities into one application. The objective of the strategic planning process is to provide a broad ranging review of all the factors that might impact the company's performance and to finish with the production of a strategic plan. Join this session to gain an understanding of key challenges, understand the strategic planning process, and see how PerformancePoint Server 2007 supports this process.

Presenters: Gregg Gracheck, Senior Product Manager, Microsoft Corporation, and Steve Hoberecht, Senior Program Manager, Microsoft Corporation

Gregg Gracheck brings more than 12 years of finance and software industry experience to his role as a senior product manager for Microsoft. In this role, he is responsible for the planning and reporting in Microsoft Office PerformancePoint Server. He also handles value proposition framework creation, product positioning and messaging, analyst relations for the planning and reporting products, and usage and user scenario articulation. Prior to joining Microsoft, Gregg held various technical and customer service roles in the software industry.

Steve Hoberecht is a senior program manager on the Microsoft Office PerformancePoint Server team. He is responsible for the features and functionality of the application components targeted towards planning, reporting, and consolidation scenarios. Additionally, Steve leads a team that manages and supports the development and deployment activities of early adopter customers and partners. Steve has been with Microsoft since 1992 where he has held a variety of roles, from program management to software quality to finance. Prior to his current position, he was test manager for data access components in Microsoft SQL Server. Steve began his career at Microsoft in the finance organization where he worked in accounting, operations, management reporting, and analysis. Steve holds a bachelor's of science degree in computer science from Seattle Pacific University.