[photopress:ppserver.jpg,thumb,pp_image]The PerformancePoint Server pricing is announced today

The price will be $20,000 per server and $195 per CAL

Microsoft internally breaks down the product components into three areas: 

• Monitoring (M) which includes scorecarding and dashboards which are typically delivered today through Business Scorecard Manager (BSM) and ProClarity dashboard.
• Analytics (A) which will provide for both a lite-analytics designed specifically for the business user and a more robust analytics designed with business analysts in mind which will look to integrate ProClarity’s analytics server (PAS) neatly into the wider Microsoft Office stack.
• Planning (P) which will provide planning, budgeting, forecasting, consolidation and financial reporting. Previously code-named Biz# this will deliver the vision of creating a more ubiquitous and pervasive tool that moves planning beyond the financial planning department and into the business by utilising Excel as the front-end to the planning process.

The server and CAL offering will provide all (Monitoring; Analytics; Planning) functionality so customers will basically receive a full performance suite for a fraction of the price of today’s offerings.