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Update: Microsoft PerformancePoint

Since the Microsoft announcement several months back many in the industry remain skeptical about their ability to deliver anything of substance any time soon. The only real fear seems to be the potential impact on pricing. Unfortunately for the rest of the BPM vendors, I believe that the Microsoft impact will be larger and be felt sooner than expected. I know many of the people that have been recruited into sales and pre-sales positions at MS and most of them are top-notch, experienced BPM corporate salesmen. Being able to sell to the corporate business buyer has been perceived as one of the weakest links in the MS PerformancePoint chain. Speaking with those sales people has also revealed that they already have substantial pipelines of major corporations very interested in learning more about PerformancePoint. On the product side, one of the pre-sales guys who has been in this space for many years is very impressed with what he has seen so far. While the larger BPM vendors tend to minimize what MS is capable of, some of the smaller vendors see the writing on the wall. Many of them are planning to leverage what is being delivered by Microsoft and add their own unique domain expertise on top. How this will all turn out is anybody's guess, but it is certainly going to be an exciting time in the BPM world.

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