The Dashboard Spy List of Experts

The Dashboard Spy’s list of Dashboard Experts gathers together best practices from the most interesting minds in business intelligence, information visualization, information technology and management. Whether you are a dashboard user, report designer, project manager, software coder, or business sponsor, you’ll find helpful resources from this collection dashboard experts.

The Big List of Dashboard Experts

Welcome to the list of expert resources. Here you’ll find the list of experts categorized by subject matter.

Feel free to submit additions to this growing list. Send an email to info (at) dashboardspy.com or simply leave a comment below with the URL of the dashboard resource. Feel free to suggest additional categories for the list as well.

Dashboard Experts – Web Resources for Digital Dashboarding

Digital Dashboard Examples

  1. The Dashboard Spy – The original collector of enterprise dashboard screenshots
  2. Dashboards By Example Volume 1 – Volume 1 of The Dashboard Spy’s screenshot collection. What do a thousand business dashboard screenshots look like?
  3. The Dashboard Guy – Dashboard Spy Wannabe?
  4. Dashboard Insight – Dashboard articles and examples
  5. Live dashboard examples - Visual Mining
  6. Gilligan on Data - Tim Wilson

Usability

  1. Advanced Common Sense – Steve Krug – author of Don’t Make Me Think: A Common Sense Approach to Web Usability
  2. Alertbox: Current Issues in Web Usability – Jakob Nielsen
  3. Usable Markets – markets, design, usability, research – Alex Kirtland
  4. UX Matters – Pabini Gabriel-Petit and Team
  5. Good Experience – Mark Hurst
  6. The Usability Blog – Paul Sherman

Information Architecture

  1. Boxes and Arrows
  2. UX Matters – Pabini Gabriel-Petit and Team

Information Visualization

  1. Many Eyes – IBM’s Collaborative User Experience research group
  2. Information Aesthetics – Data Visualization & Visual Design – Andrew Vande Moere
  3. Visual Business Intelligence – Stephen Few, author of Information Dashboard Design: The Effective Visual Communication of Data
  4. The Agile Analytics Weblog – Juice Analytics
  5. Wallpapering Fog – Data Monkey

Project Management / IT Management / Enterprise Software

  1. dougmcclure.net – Doug McClure on Business, Service and Technology Operations and Management
  2. Advice & Opinion from CIO.com – CIO.com conversations
  3. IT Project Failures – Michael Krigsman
  4. Cutting’s Edge Project Management – Nearly random project management insights from Thomas Cutting
  5. Project Steps – Stephen Seay
  6. Workflow IQ – Work Smarter – Patrick Gauthier
  7. The Intranet Blog – Toby Ward on Intranet Best Practices
  8. Joel on Software – Joel Spolsky
  9. Andy on Enterprise Software – Andy Hayler
  10. Web 2.X Blog – jymloke

User Experience

  1. Aaron Hursman – Great contributions from a user experience pro doing dashboard design.

UI Design & Prototyping

  1. I Heart Wireframes – Ivana Jurcic (I heart this site! Dashboard Spy)

Business Intelligence

  1. The Changing Face of BI – Lyndsay Wise
  2. The Business Intelligence Blog – Guru Kirthigavasan
  3. BI Brain – Mark Cudmore
  4. Blog: Shawn Rogers – Shawn Rogers
  5. Advice & Opinion from CIO.com – CIO.com conversations
  6. b-eye – Business Intelligence Network
  7. BI-lingual: Speaking the Language of Business Intelligence with a Microsoft Accent – Nick Barclay, author of The Rational Guide To Monitoring and Analyzing with Microsoft Office PerformancePoint Server 2007
  8. MSFT BI Vertical Team Blog – Microsofties on the BI Vertical

Data Management

  1. The Data Heads – Evan Miller

Web 2.0/RIA Technologies

  1. Enterprise Web 2.0 – Dion Hinchcliffe
  2. The Universal Desktop – Ryan Stewart
  3. Manage by Walking Around – Jonathan D. Becher

Performance Management Dashboards

  1. Closing the Intelligence Gap – Gary Conkins
  2. Craig Schiff on Business Performance Management – Craig Schiff
  3. Corporate Performance Management – The Next Step – Deloitte
  4. The Performance Guys – Guy, Nic, & Pat
  5. Manage by Walking Around – Jonathan D. Becher

Content

  1. meryl.net – Meryl K. Evans, Content Maven
  2. Copyblogger – Brian Clark
  3. Grammar Girl – Mignon Fogarty
  4. Enter Content Here – Seth Gottlieb

Web Analytics

  1. Occam’s Razor – Avinash Kaushik, author of Web Analytics: An Hour a Day
  2. immeria: an immersion in web analytics – Stephane Hamel
  3. instant cognition – Clint Ivy

Business Objects Dashboards

  1. Business Objects Blog – Unknown BO Developer
  2. Business Objects Board – BOB

Eclipse/BIRT Dashboards

  1. Eclipse Hints & Tips – Wayne Beaton
  2. Planet Eclipse – Aggregation of Eclipse Experts

Excel Dashboards

  1. Jon’s Excel and Chart Pages – Jon Peltier
  2. PointyHairedDilbert – Excel Tips, Technology Tidbits & Business Insights – Chandoo
  3. Microsoft Excel Team Blog – Microsoft pros deep-dive into Excel functionality tips
  4. Excel Training Video Tutorials – Michael Alexander of Excel 2007 Dashboards & Reports For Dummies
  5. Jorge Camoes’ Charts – Excel dashboard tutorials
  6. Excel User – Charles W. Kyd

InfoCaptor Dashboards

  1. Dashboards, Applications & Business Intelligence – Nilesh Jethwa
  2. InfoCaptor Blog – infocaptor.com

Flex/Flash Dashboards

  1. RIApedia – Mike Potter
  2. Flex Examples Blog – Peter deHaan.
  3. Forest and the Trees – Data Visualization with Doug Marttila.
  4. Doug McCune’s Blog – Doug McCune
  5. Quietly Scheming – Ely Greenfield
  6. Brightworks Flex Reference – Douglas MacCaroll
  7. Flex Pearls – Sreenivas Ramaswamy

MicroSoft Office/SharePoint/CRM/PerformancePoint/etc Dashboards

  1. SharePoint Team Blog – SharePoint Product Group
  2. SharePoint Designer Team Blog – SharePoint Designer
  3. A SharePoint Sr. Technical Product Manager’s Blog – Paul Andrew
  4. Mark Harrison’s Blog – Mark Harrison on Silverlight, Expression, Office and more.
  5. Microsoft CRM Dashboards – Sonoma Partners
  6. Mauro Cardarelli – Delivering High Impact Collaboration & Business Intelligence through Microsoft Technologies
  7. Vantage Point – Notes from the Microsoft Technology Center – Bob German
  8. Information Worker Blog – Scott Jamison
  9. Arpan Shah’s Blog on SharePoint Technology – Arpan Shah
  10. PerformancePoint Server Blog – Norm
  11. Microsoft Office PerformancePoint Server Forums – Microsoft TechNet
  12. Alan Whitehouse’s Ramblings – Alan Whitehouse, Solution Architect
  13. Dan English’s BI Blog – Random Thoughts, MS-centric
  14. PerformancePoint Team Blog

Oracle Dashboards

  1. Oracle Business Intelligence Blog – Contributions from practitioners
  2. Business Intelligence – Oracle – Venkatakrishnan J, Business Intelligence Enthusiast
  3. Oracle OLAP – Keith Laker
  4. Oracle Blogs – Listing of blogs by Oracle executives, employees and non-employees.
  5. RittmanMead Blog – Mark Rittman and Jon Mead
  6. Oracle Infogram – More than you can read!
  7. OBIEE – Technorati Page on OBIEE

Pentaho Dashboards

  1. Will Gorman’s Blog – a Pentaho developer

Salesforce.com Dashboards

  1. Lucid Era Blog – Darren Cunningham, Ken Rudin and Nate Bridge
  2. Salesforce.com Blog – Official

SAS Dashboards

  1. Robert Allison’s SAS/Graph Examples – Expert on dashboarding with SAS
  2. Automate BI – Neil Dulohery

Xcelsius Dashboards

  1. Interactive Data Visualization – Ryan Goodman
  2. MyXcelsius.com – Kalyan Verma
  3. The Xcelsius Journal – Loren Abdulezer and Michael Alexander
  4. Xcelsius Basics, Tips and Tricks at DataPig Technologies – Michael Alexander, author of Crystal Xcelsius For Dummies
  5. Crystal Xcelsius Dashboarding – Kalyan Verma
  6. SWF Dashboard Examples – Forward Labs
  7. Crystal Excelsius Forum – Business Objects Board
  8. Jim Bytes – Doing I.T. in Dublin!
  9. Everything Xcelsius – Xcelsius Gurus

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42 Comments

  1. Comment by admin:
    Tuesday, June 17th 2008 at 12:22 pm | 

    If you know of a resource that you feel should be on this page, please leave a comment here with the URL.

  2. Comment by Mike W.:
    Tuesday, June 17th 2008 at 2:12 pm | 

    I’ve found that Marketing NPV is an excellent site for developing marketing dashboards.

    –Mike W.

    http://www.marketingnpv.com/

  3. Comment by Jorge Camoes:
    Tuesday, June 17th 2008 at 4:10 pm | 

    Great list, and thanks for listing me side by side with Jon…

    I would add a “Sparklines” category and of course include MicroCharts there: http://www.bonavistasystems.com

    Their blog will be a valuable resource in the near future (and I post there too…): http://blog.xlcubed.com.

  4. Comment by Thomas Cutting:
    Wednesday, June 18th 2008 at 1:09 am | 

    Thank you for adding me to your list of experts! I am honored and grateful.

    Consider adding the podcast at http://www.ThePMPodcast.com to your list of listens.

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  6. Comment by Roberta Ackerman:
    Friday, August 1st 2008 at 12:50 pm | 

    We provide online dashboards for healthcare revenue cycle management and Business Performance Management.
    Includes scorecards, trends,projections,rollup and drill through analysis reports. information is displayed as gauges, bell curves, charts and graphs.

  7. Comment by Alex:
    Saturday, August 2nd 2008 at 9:02 pm | 

    Thanks for linking to my 101 Great Blogs post.

    If you’re interested in dashboarding and paid search marketing, keep an eye on http://www.clickequations.com/blog/

    Cheers,
    -Alex

  8. Comment by John:
    Wednesday, August 6th 2008 at 8:30 am | 

    I am writing an essay on executive dashboards – can an anyone tell me were I can get some links were I can see some essays or thesis about it?

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  14. Comment by Xcelsius Gurus:
    Tuesday, November 4th 2008 at 2:52 pm | 

    Please add our URL to your list of Xcelsius blogs. Thanks!

  16. Comment by John Cook:
    Monday, January 19th 2009 at 3:10 am | 

    Very content rich website, I like it. Maybe a bit more categorization and mapping would be easier to navigate through it.

    May I suggest you show more industry specific dashboards and reports, like Auto, Food, Gas Station, Healthcare, Jewelry, etc…

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  23. Comment by Charles Rosendorf:
    Tuesday, November 10th 2009 at 4:43 pm | 

    Marketmesa.com has a dashboard http://www.marketmesa.com that can chart and compare hundreds of business performances – on your dates – in one screen.
    Marketmesa consists of two modules: 1. Database – named Stocks, 2. Charts – named Charts.

    Since Marketmesa Stocks was originally designed for the Stock Market, native text data is accepted from Worden’s TC2000 Stock Market programs. Non-native format data can be converted to native format text data using an ETL – Extract, Transform and Load module included in the /File/Get External Data function of Microsoft Access or through other 3rd party ETLs found with internet Search. Many of these data formatting programs can be automated for each data source.

    Whether it be stock market, business key performance indicators or other entities to be compared, Marketmesa merges data from multiple sources and can automate to import at pre-determined times.
    Once the data is imported, hundreds of entities can be compared at the same time in numeric reports and 2D and 3D charts. 3D charts are particularly good at comparing hundreds at the same time.

    Charles Rosendorf – Founder, Marketmesa.com
    *** Your World At A Glance ***

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  25. Comment by Dave:
    Monday, January 25th 2010 at 12:40 pm | 

    Hi Dashboard Spy
    http://www.idashboards.com
    they have a nice BLOG now as well.

    thanks

    Dave

  26. Comment by Bob Gordon:
    Wednesday, April 14th 2010 at 4:16 pm | 

    I would like to contribute info on an interactive dashboard I built using Business Objects Xcelsius. Please let me know the procedure.

  27. Comment by Julius Manaig:
    Wednesday, May 26th 2010 at 10:26 am | 

    I’m presently dealt with getting an appropriate dashboard for our Team,(can anyone suggest any software for us to evaluate?)

    Here’s our primary requirement:

    1. Little to No VB, SQL or other coding & wizard driven?
    2. 500k record minimum or more?
    3. File size it produce?
    4. Does it integrate with MS Power point 2007?
    5. Competitive Cost?
    6. Is there other charges or cost like, installation cost?
    7. Can the dashboard be viewed or use by multiple customer or user without having any added installed program in their own computers?
    8.consultations promo (if any).
    9. If it can work with Sharepoint (its a plus). —-kindly send any suggestion to my email address—Thanks!!!

  28. Comment by kirsty:
    Tuesday, July 13th 2010 at 4:32 am | 

    We have some great examples of dashboards on our website – see the Showcase section. Here is one to get you started : https://newsletter.bimeapp.com/players/dashboard/7DE34AA613ABCCA12B27E513DB3DC709

    This displays the heatmap feature of our product Bime. The great thing about the heatmap is that it is not simply a pretty picture – hover over the heatpoints and you can bring up the detailed data lying behind them by clicking on it. This is particularly helpful when different areas of focus are close together, like on the dashboard above. By clicking on “Rendering mode” you can switch between the heatmap or graduated circles view. You can filter your view by states by checking or unchecking the relevant boxes under “attributes” on the right. You can also filter by the measure (profit) by using the slider below the list of attributes.

    Bime’s geo visualization allows you to see where you are in the real world, quite literally, using the Bime functionality on top of Google Maps. We’ve been using this feature for a while now – just as a line graph is probably the most effective way of displaying time data, the heatmap is definitely the way to go for geographic data. With this, you can visualize where your staff, clients, suppliers, or any other facet of your business is concentrated. As we outlined above, this can do wonders for your organization, and equally importantly, keep you one step ahead of the competition.

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  30. Comment by Rebecca:
    Saturday, September 25th 2010 at 8:28 pm | 

    Please consider Concego’s internet technologies blog as a resource for business intelligence expertise.

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    Thursday, October 14th 2010 at 4:25 am | 

    Hello to all! We appreciate Thomas suggesting The PM Podcast. We’d like to inform all that the new URL for the PM Podcast is http://www.project-management-podcast

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    Please take a look at DashboardPlus, a new Excel based TRUE dashboard utility that coukd be the perfect solution for small entreprises (http://www.DashboardMore.com)

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  40. Comment by Peter O'Neill:
    Wednesday, June 1st 2011 at 4:32 am | 

    I recently created a customisable Excel dashboard template available for free download which I am hoping qualifies me for this list. Check it out at http://bit.ly/kucKuX.

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