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Taking a Dimension-Free View of Data

February 17, 2012 by Brett Stupakevich
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Data scientists and business leaders need intuitive, easy-to-use tools to help make sense of the enormity of data that’s available to them. Expanding the universe of potential data sources while placing the information in greater context can only help organizational leaders make decisions faster and more effectively. [read more]

SAS BI Dashboard: Google Analytics Dashboard Kicked Up a Notch

January 23, 2012 by Tricia Aanderud
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In SAS 9.3, SAS introduced the Spark Table indicators for the SAS BI Dashboard. There are essentially three steps to creating a this indicator: prepare the data, build the range (colored arrows), and build the spark table. Here’s a quick overview of the process. [read more]

A Big Part of Consumerization Is “I Want to Make It Myself”

January 5, 2012 by Erica Driver
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This story has big implications for self-service BI. When we think about self-service BI, we can’t stop at ease of access and ease of use. We must also focus on ease of creation. Self-service BI has to make it easy for users―even non-technical business users―to create their own analysis. [read more]

Dashboards Deliver A Clear View – Just Have a Look

July 19, 2010 by Brett Stupakevich
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Image Credit: Microsoft Office Clip Art

Driving a car is simple and fairly universal. Red means stop, green for go.  That helps control traffic.  Inside the car, a set of dials, gauges, lights and buttons report at-a-glance how your vehicle is operating at any moment.  In a second or two, you can see status updates, condition reports and even spot essential... [read more]

What to look for in a new data warehouse

May 24, 2010 by Lyndsay Wise
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Using dashboards to get broad visibility into business is gaining popularity.  Because of advancements in technology, organizations can use BI without a full business intelligence infrastructure.  For organizations that want to keep historical records of operations, meet compliance, identify risk, implement governance... [read more]

Some considerations when looking at dashboards

April 29, 2010 by Lyndsay Wise
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The following is a list of some considerations related to dashboard evaluations. It provides an initial set of considerations. Dashboard Purpose By starting with the business pain, decision makers can limit their dashboard choice to one that meets their specific business requirements.  For example, some companies require... [read more]

Dashboards: A Kite with a Broken String?

April 27, 2010 by Gary Cokins
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How do executives expect to realize their strategic objectives if all they look at is financial results like product profit margins, return on equity, earnings and interest before interest, taxes, depreciation, and amortization (EBITDA), cash flow, and other financial results? These are really not goals – they are results. They are... [read more]

Data Visualization: Why (1 of 2)

April 25, 2010 by James MacLennan
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Between business requests and breathless vendors, I am getting caught up in the growing tide of interest in “data visualizations” – managers requesting highly interactive, highly graphical, highly intuitive analytics interfaces (think Minority Report). But what are we trying to accomplish here? We keep on hearing about “executive... [read more]

Basking in a dashboard’s warm glow

March 19, 2010 by Ted Cuzzillo
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When some people look at dashboards, they want to see patterns but not reasons. “They don’t want to read the fine print,” said one attendee in Lyndsay Wise’s dashboards seminar at Enterprise Data World in San Francisco yesterday. That’s what the man learned in one data-quality project for a human resources department. He was frank... [read more]

BI for Baby: Dashboards to Track Your Child’s KPIs (And The Rest of Us)

November 28, 2009 by Timo Elliott
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Prepare your child for the new world of business from its very earliest hours! Trixie Telemetry has released Trixie Tracker, which includes everything an analytic-obsessed parent needs to track baby’s key performance indicators, including: Sleep Tracking Bowel movements Feeding schedule Medicines And many, many more – including... [read more]

Dashboard Envy

November 18, 2009 by Steve Bennett
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Coca-Cola Germany has published on the web (via their marketing agency) two generations of their flash-based dashboards developed between 2007 and 2009. I recommend you take a look at them here and here as I believe they give us a vision of how to present data effectively to sales, marketing and senior management... [read more]

How to Create and Deploy Effective Metrics

September 18, 2009 by Timo Elliott
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I’m trying to catch up on a big backlog of materials and documents and documents that I’ve found useful… Here’s an excellent best practices report from TDWI on “how to create and deploy effective metrics” (registration required). The introduction to the document explains the background: Performance metrics are a powerful tool of... [read more]

#9: Here's a thought...

May 10, 2009 by BrianRoger
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An occasional series in which a review of recent posts on SmartData Collective reveals the following nuggets:It doesn’t have to be that wayIdeally, corporate restructuring means establishing a process to allow organizations to continue their operations using their existing systems. IT systems reconciliation simply cannot get in the way... [read more]

Breaking Free of the One-Page Dashboard Rule

May 5, 2009 by Juice Analytics
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Conventional wisdom says that an executive dashboard must fit on a single page or screen. The argument hinges on a pair of assertions about this constraint: it provides necessary discipline to focus on only the most critical information; and it enables the audience to see results "at a glance."The "discipline" argument is made... [read more]

Dashboards should do more than raise your blood pressure

April 24, 2009 by James Taylor
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This headline came from a briefing I got from LucidEra about their spring release and was so good I just had to use it. Think about it - if all a dashboard does is stress you out and raise your blood pressure by telling you what’s wrong without giving you any help as to how to fix it then it is not much use. You must know what decisions... [read more]

Inside Rohm and Haas’ Open Source Dashboard

April 3, 2009 by Bruce Richardson
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In “Rohm and Haas and the ‘Open Source Dashboard," we noted that the big chemical company had deployed a low-cost visualization tool from amCharts for some key applications. Mike Masciandaro, the company’s director of business intelligence, was kind enough to share some sample screenshots.This first screen shows pricing analytics. All... [read more]