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Real-time, Quick Reference Information in Personalized, Role-based Dashboards
by LogiXML BIz Comm Editorial Staff
October 2, 2006
Dashboards have become a standard requirement of corporate users’ business intelligence initiatives. This is due to the ease of use, and the convenient, fast access to critical data that they provide. Interactive dashboards let executives, managers and analysts monitor, measure and share key performance metrics instantly and view the information most pertinent to their roles.
What Is a Dashboard?
A dashboard is a business management tool that gives users a high level, overall understanding of current business data.
Scorecards and Dashboards
Like scorecards, dashboards are related to business performance. While scorecarding is about performance management, dashboarding is more about performance monitoring.
Dashboards allow business personnel to monitor and measure the current, real-time state of the business. Scorecarding uses a much more involved approach to chart progress over time related to performance objectives. It involves identifying the organization’s key performance indicators and factors for achieving strategic goals (for example, what means good, what means bad, and so on).
Business Performance Status at-a-glance
Just like the dashboard in your car gives you important information about how your car is performing, a business dashboard gives business personnel the information they need about the business at hand. For example, users can see the current state of all sales across all product lines and then drill down to view current sales for a particular product line.
Employing various graphic elements like gauges, charts, and meters, dashboards pull data in from your various business systems in areas such as HR, operations, sales, IT, and so on.
Dashboards give real-time performance status and let users know the current state of the business, allows them to drill-down on details if needed, and can provide warnings, next steps, summaries, need for action alerts, and so on.
They are based on live data, which can come from various sources, and are ‘personalizable,’ letting users customize the page, move charts and gauges around, add or remove charts, and so on, as they see fit.
Dashboards by LogiXML
LogiXML gives application developers a comprehensive platform for creating role-based dashboards for end users. LogiXML’s dashboarding feature gives business users at-a-glance views of key performance metrics and personalized views of information from numerous sources across the organization.
They provide ‘clickable’ charts and graphs for users to drill down, explore and analyze data in real-time. They are also fully role-based and 'personalizable' so that business users only see the information they are interested in and can change the layout on-the-fly according to their own preferences.
LogiXML’s interactive dashboards let executives, managers and analysts monitor, measure and share key performance metrics instantly all within their Web browsers.
Benefits of Dashboards
Dashboards are valuable because they transform business data into information that’s easy to comprehend; users can view and make sense of this information at-a-glance .
- Fast and effective decision-making. Gives executives, managers and analysts convenient immediate access to key performance metrics, which help them monitor performance and processes for a greater understanding of the business.
- On demand, accurate and relevant information so you can focus on business priorities. Dashboards clearly communicate business objectives throughout the organization and allow users to see progress toward those goals, which keeps everyone focused and informed.
With a personalized layout, users only see the information that is most important to them, and they can filter out information that isn’t relevant.
- Focused identification of problems, inefficiencies or negative trends for immediate action and improved performance. Users can immediately see any problems, and drill down on charts and links to explore detailed information and analyze data in real-time to determine root causes and to correct negative trends.
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