Executive dashboarding with the Great Plains package from Microsoft. Thanks goes to the Dashboard Spy who sent me these dashboard screenshots. I was told that third-party software from softwaresolutions-biz.com was used to generate these dashboards from sales, inventory and financial data embedded in a Great Plains system. I’m assuming these dashboards are demos from the company.
Executive dashboard implementation advice can come from many sources. Don’t neglect videos as a source of enterprise dashboard screenshots to study. Take a look at this microsoft video about building CXO dashboards with Sharepoint, infopath, business scorecard manager and other microsoft office applications.
Here is a look at an enterprise dashboard used by a university information technology department to track their projects during the year. This project dashboard is available online, so you may want to check it out.
Nothing special going on here in the graphics department, but it’s instructive to look at grouping and layout of the metrics featured. The first few elements on the dashboard (reporting period information, links to forms and Important Information) are static in nature and, in my opinion, should be treated in a header or sidebar type of fashion. The “real” information starts with the charts of the IT Resource Work Distribution Trend and Overall Work Totals to Date. This is where the real project dashboard starts.
