Business Scorecard Manager (BSM) 2005 is a server based application that provides a platform for organizations to use Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) to monitor business performance against their defined business goals. In this article, Alex Lim explains the architecture of Business Scorecard Manager, and works through steps required to create a data source, scorecard, and KPIs, associate a report with the scorecard, and publish the scorecard and report to Sharepoint, thus enabling you to create a basic BSM project that can allow your users to monitor the progress of their organization against their goals. The article assumes no prior knowledge of BSM.