Known by various names, dashboards come in all types. Business intelligence front-ends, scorecards, enterprise dashboards, executive dashboards, digital dashboards, KPI reports, just to name a few.
Whatever you call them, the intuitive nature of business dashboards have become the universal "face of business intelligence". Dashboards allow at-a-glance understanding of the business situation and makes for easier decision making.
The easiest way to learn about enterprise dashboards is to study examples of them. That's what the Dashboard Spy is all about. Take a look at the screenshots gathered here. You'll learn a LOT about dashboards and business intelligence.
The idea of benchmarking the performance of a municipality or governed area such as a state is quite interesting. The Connecticut Economic Resource Center or CERC has been using business intelligence dashboards to provide perspectives on Connecticut’s competitive performance. Visit the dashboard here: CERC Dashboard Take a look at the CERC dashboard and you’ll note [… Read More]
Dashboards in the home can lower energy consumption. The growing availability of “energy dashboards” for home owners to use for monitoring their energy consumption is helping to reduce electrical loads. Here’s a look at one such unit: It’s from this post: Musings of an Energy Nerd Here’s an excerpt: In recent years, the technology of [… Read More]
Those of us who have done dashboard projects in multiple industries know that the first step is to understand that vertical’s particular workflows, business rules and measures of performance. Finding out what KPIs to display on the enterprise dashboard for a particular type of business is no easy task unless you have first hand knowledge [… Read More]
When it comes down to the very essence of the “Why Dashboards?” question, the answer really comes down to speed. There is a measurable need for faster and more digestible, more accessible information. I believe that this “need for speed” in understanding business metrics and trends is what drives the adoption of business dashboards. Take [… Read More]
Executive Dashboard Topic: Measuring Brand Strength and Marketing Metrics with Dashboards An executive dashboard can be a powerful force multiplier, especially when it comes to areas that, while traditionally reliant on trend analysis and data crunching, have not jumped on the idea of enterprise dashboards as quickly as other parts of the organization. Such is [… Read More]
Dashboard Spy Topic: Costing Dashboards. There are many factors when it comes to determining the cost of a business dashboard project. Of course, one of the big determining factors is whether you build the dashboard yourself (a custom dashboard development project), integrate an off the shelf dashboard product from a dashboard software vendor, or some [… Read More]
I had the opportunity to browse through the book Readings in Information Visualization: Using Vision to Think. I could not put it down. It’s a big book, hard to find and impossible to put down once you start looking at it. Use the link above to find a used copy. Take a look at this [… Read More]
It came to my attention that some Dashboard Spy readers forget that the dashboard screenshots appear under a different url: www.enterprise-dashboard.com, where I maintain Dashboard Examples Volume 1. I apologize to the faithful reader who recently emailed me saying that while he enjoys the commentary and related materials that appear on this main site (dashboardspy.com), [… Read More]
Dashboard Spy Topic: Distribution KPI Dashboard powered by Netsuite. Financial KPIs and Sales Funnel Metrics lie at the heart of this wholesale/distribution dashboard example. This was featured on the JCurve Dashboards site. The yellow boxes with the red numbers lead to explanations when you click on them at the demo at JCurve Dashboards. Here’s some [… Read More]
Dashboard expert Robert Allison created this Restaurant Performance Dashboard using SAS GRAPH: As Robert explained: This is a SAS/Graph imitation/enhancement of one of Charles Kyd’s Exceluser dashboards. In the top section, the very dense yearly charts are created using “proc gplot” with the ‘needle’ interpolation, and the 4-bar current-month charts are created using “proc gchart”. [… Read More]
