Dashboard Screenshots published on March 3, 2006. Here is the start of a series of Banking Dashboards. Presented by Business Objects for their Crystal Xcelsius product, the dashboard is posted here. Note that is is a Flash-based dashboard, so be sure to try out the slider controls within the dashboards themselves. Xcelsius dashboards are known for their strength in the what-if analysis department.
This highlights dashboard is simply composed. It has navigation on the left to the following sections: Growth, Deposit Mix, Deposits, Loans, Channels, Past Due, Risk, Market Share and Profitablility. the right section has a year to year comparison of financial highlights such as net income, revenue, return on assets, return on equity, net interest margin, assets, loans, core deposits, and so on.
Dashboard Type: This enterprise dashboard would go under the main category of Enterprise Performance Dashboard and sub-category of Executive Dashboard if we follow the dashboard classification system used in the book, Enterprise Dashboards: Design and Best Practices for IT. As stated by the author, Malik, there are six major categories of enterprise dashboards, with each having varying numbers of sub-categories. The main categories are: Enterprise Performance Dashboards, Divisional Dashboards, Process/Activity Monitoring Dashboards, Custom Applications Dashboards, Customer Dashboards and Vendor Dashboards.
Homework: On a banking dashboard project and need a primer on banking KPIs? Start with this list of books on bank management
Not at all sure what Xcelsius dashboards are? Then, you must start with this Xcelsius for Dummies book.
So what or who is The Dashboard Spy? As his about page states, The Dashboard Spy is just a guy interested in the design of enterprise dashboards. He could not find any executive dashboard design source books (or even screenshots of real business dashboards) and so set about creating his own. Finally convinced to post his extensive collection of dashboard screenshots online, he was amazed to find how popular it has become. If you have a nice screenshot of a digital dashboard, balanced scorecard, or any business intelligence graphic to share, please send an email to info _at_ dashboardspy.com. Also check out The Dashboard Spy's favorite books on business dashboards.
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