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This article by Alex Kirtland on boxesandarrows.com at http://www.boxesandarrows.com/view/executive_dashboards was and still is a great primer on dashboards. It’s from 2003, but well worth a revisit. Here’s a shot from it that features a simplified dashboard architecture. It shows how the user needs of answering fundamental business questions, getting alerts and decision making are met by a system filtering raw data through the processes of personalization, key performance indicators, and data manipulation.

Dashboard Architecture

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