In 2007, Microsoft debuted a new planning and analysis application, PerformancePoint Server, to much fanfare. As consolidations were running rampant in the business performance management (BPM) software space, Microsoft seemed to get serious about becoming a player in the market. The company promoted PerformancePoint Server -- which fell under the wide Office umbrella -- as expanding the scope of BPM beyond finance, bringing it to desktops throughout the organization. Reception among BPM buyers must have been more fizzle than sizzle, as Microsoft recently announced that it is rolling the dashboard, scorecard, and analytics capabilities of PerformancePoint Server into its SharePoint product. The new consolidated system will be branded PerformancePoint Services for SharePoint.  Microsoft is planning to release one more PerformancePoint Server service pack later this year, but it will no longer sell a stand-alone version of the BPM system. Kurt DelBene, senior vice president of the Office business platform group at Microsoft, says that the change helps Microsoft fulfill PerformancePoint’s original mission of “bringing BI to the masses.” Although PerformancePoint’s independent life spanned only about a year and a half, DelBene says that for customers who’ve already installed it, Microsoft will provide support “well into the next decade.”