Your Business Dashboard and Insights are very important
It is important to have proper key parameters defined, measured and monitored to ensure your Business is in the right direction or need alignment. These KPIs, when planned and selected appropriately, also gives alerts and warnings to align business functions before it is too late.
A Dashboard is that which shows the Big Picture in 2 seconds using the key business data and facts
It combines data from various departments and represent it side-by-side for an easy overview of the business from the top
A well designed Dashboard provides Clarity to Business owners and Top Executives with data-driven facts for faster and better decision making
Serious Role of Dashboard
One of the Silent but important tool in fighting Covid-19 across the globe was a very Simple-Dashboard. The one shown along side of this paragraph is a simple looking World Map that shows the density of Covid-numbers across countries. With simple 2 or 3 parameter filter this tool was extensively and most used tool among the Medical experts, political leaders, logistic providers, financial aid providers, social observers and every common man. Many more benefits we can list out how this tool played a serious role during world-wide global crisis.
Source: WHO website https://who.int
Source: Travel Triangle
Simple yet very useful
One may not realize it as a “Dashboard” is the Airlines Departure Board in every airport. Quite useful since ages, it is a simple yet very powerful dashboard that helps a passenger know about their flight status within few seconds or minutes. That is its purpose, without complicating with too many information, it is a specific purpose simple dashboard with red-green-yellow dots clearly representing delay, on-time or cancelled flights.
Give your business or your customers, a meaningful Dashboard
Screenshots of actual dashboards we developed for various applications. Data Source used: XLS and SQL
4 Key Categories of Dashboards Based On its Purpose:
- Strategic Dashboard – focused on long-term strategies and high-level metrics.
- Operational Dashboard – shows shorter time frames and operational processes.
- Analytical Dashboard – contains vast amounts of data created by analysts.
- Tactical Dashboard – used by mid-management to track performance.
8 Tips for Providing Dashboard Requirements To Your Dashboard Developers
Now for how you can unearth dashboard requirements the best, let’s look at the processes experts have in place — the questions they ask and who they collaborate with.
Here’s a list of the guidelines followed by the details:
- * Involve the stakeholders’ with their goals to suggest dashboard metrics
- * Encourage a questions-first approach
- * Explain how end users interact with the dashboard
- * Define which KPIs are the most important
- * Create a step-by-step workflow
- * Collaborate on the dashboard layout in advance
- * Choose the dashboard type before creating it
- * Repurpose analyzed data to create useful dashboards
Contact
Do you have any dashboard need?
- info@upsidecloudtechnologies.com
- Strategic Dashboard
- Operational Dashboard
- Analytical Dashboard
- Tactical Dashboard