Top Ten Tips for Dynamic Dashboards
What should you look for from your dashboarding solution? Here are our top ten must-have attributes:
- Simplicity: Dashboards must be highly intuitive to use, requiring no formal training to master.
- Open-Ended: This visual technology will be end-user led — power users should be able to update or introduce new metrics without intervention from IT.
- Tailored View: The ability to create role-based dashboards will enable the creation of performance metrics for individual departments or business areas.
- Visualisation: Dashboards should display information that reflects specific user requirements.
- Go Deeper: Integrated analysis and reporting ensures users can drill down through the dashboard to detailed reports that explain trends and issues.
- Trusted Data: Metadata should provide the context for each metric, demonstrating how it has been calculated, and end users should be confident in the original data source.
- Anytime, Anywhere: Users should be able to access the dashboard from any location – on the web, through the company portal, via their mobile, smartphone or PDA, by email, or displayed within Microsoft tools such as PowerPoint or Adobe Acrobat.
- Complete View: Dashboards must provide access to any data source, SAP or non SAP, OLAP or SQL, to provide a complete 360 degree view.
- Personalisation: Users should be able to choose what information to display and design the dashboard layout to meet their own requirements.
- Monitoring and Alerts: By tracking metrics and providing alerts when thresholds are breached, a dashboard should allow “management by exception”.
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