Dashboard

Tag: Enterprise Dashboard for tracking alignment of IT to business goals. A talented dashboard designer at work at http://www.kokecreative.com/portfolio_ui_troux.html. This series of enterprise dashboard screenshots is for a CIO executive dashboard looking to track LOB (line of business) Alignment of Goals. The basic question for any CIO is whether or not what his or her IT department is working on is really aligned to business initiatives. The first screenshot shows CIO Key Objectives: Customer acquisition through website, budgeting, IT project alignment, and alerts. The second dashboard screenshot is a LOB detail with a view of the Service Level Agreement (SLA). This would be critical for an IT department to monitor.

So what or who is The Dashboard Spy? As his about page states, The Dashboard Spy is just a guy interested in the design of enterprise dashboards. He could not find any executive dashboard design source books (or even screenshots of real business dashboards) and so set about creating his own. Finally convinced to post his extensive collection of dashboard screenshots online, he was amazed to find how popular it has become. If you have a nice screenshot of a digital dashboard, balanced scorecard, or any business intelligence graphic to share, please send an email to info _at_ dashboardspy.com. Also check out The Dashboard Spy’s favorite books.

This series of executive dashboard screenshots from mirus.com focuses on multi-unit restaurant chain management. The first dashboard screenshot shows a layout of KPI portlets showing information like top 5 and bottom 5 coupons redeemed, store sales figures, DMA peformance (demographic marketing area), etc. The reporting dashboard screenshot is a straight-forward, old-school listing of summary rows with red/green/yellow traffic light indicators. The last screenshot shows the configuration of a user-defined alert being subscribed to for email delivery.

So what or who is The Dashboard Spy? As his about page states, The Dashboard Spy is just a guy interested in the design of enterprise dashboards. He could not find any executive dashboard design source books (or even screenshots of real business dashboards) and so set about creating his own. Finally convinced to post his extensive collection of dashboard screenshots online, he was amazed to find how popular it has become. If you have a nice screenshot of a digital dashboard, balanced scorecard, or any business intelligence graphic to share, please send an email to info _at_ dashboardspy.com. Also check out The Dashboard Spy's favorite books.

It's always great to see how dashboards get configured - both from the point of view of what visual styles to show and what levels trigger the alarms. There is a walkthrough of an enterprise dashboard at http://www.iolap.com/products/dashboard.htm that gives a look at the administration screenshots. This material is good to study for administration ideas - whether you use an out-of-the-box dashboard package or you are building a custom dashboard application yourself, you need to deal with configuration and user preferences. I assume that the choice of visual styles is an admin function, but do you think that setting alarm levels (see screen below) is done by each individual user? If so, that's a nice way to let the user customize their own dashboard.

So what or who is The Dashboard Spy? As his about page states, The Dashboard Spy is just a guy interested in the design of business dashboards. He could not find any executive dashboard design source books and so set about creating his own. Finally convinced to post his extensive collection of dashboard screenshots online, he was amazed to find how popular it has become. If you have a nice screenshot of an enterprise dashboard, balanced scorecard, or any business intelligence graphic to share, please send an email to info _at_ dashboardspy.com. Also check out The Dashboard Spy's favorite books.

A well thought out series of enterprise project management / project portfolio dashboard screenshots at http://www.entry.com/reporting.html. From a couple of years ago, so no rockets going off in the visual graphics department, but this flow seems well laid out and easy to use. Sometimes simple text-based links and intuitive drilldowns work best. Those of you on project portfolio or IT management dashboard projects would do well to study the information on these screens. Rare to be able to see in detail this type of financial dashboard for projects.

First, a C-level executive would see comments from his team on his executive dashboard:

 Then, the projects are viewed within their context of the enterprise's project management framework:

The statuses of the projects are easily seen:

The economics/budgeting issues are seen on this dashboard:

And here we see the financial benefits/ROI data:

So what or who is The Dashboard Spy? As his about page states, The Dashboard Spy is just a guy interested in the design of business dashboards. He could not find any executive dashboard design source books and so set about creating his own. Finally convinced to post his extensive collection of dashboard screenshots online, he was amazed to find how popular it has become. If you have a nice screenshot of an enterprise dashboard, balanced scorecard, or any business intelligence graphic to share, please send an email to info _at_ dashboardspy.com. Also check out The Dashboard Spy's favorite books.

The folks at http://www.csl-uk.com/dashboard.aspx have a series of enterprise dashboard screenshots which follow a pharmaceutical sales scenario. They use the common map-based drilldown approach. You'll see that you start at the national sales territories level and move down to the account level and then to individual doctors. The dashboard shows projected vs. actual sales activities, doctor information and geographical information.

So what or who is The Dashboard Spy? As his about page states, The Dashboard Spy is just a guy interested in the design of business dashboards. He could not find any executive dashboard design source books and so set about creating his own. Finally convinced to post his extensive collection of dashboard screenshots online, he was amazed to find how popular it has become. If you have a nice screenshot of an enterprise dashboard, balanced scorecard, or any business intelligence graphic to share, please send an email to info _at_ dashboardspy.com. Also check out The Dashboard Spy's favorite books.

Sales people and teams love enterprise dashboards for tracking sales performance, pipeline and activities. Here are some sales executive dashboard screenshots from http://www.toplineresults.com/dash.htm. This series of dashboards start with a sales executive's personal dashboard and then shows sales pipeline and sales activities.

So what or who is The Dashboard Spy? As his about page states, The Dashboard Spy is just a guy interested in the design of business dashboards. He could not find any executive dashboard design source books and so set about creating his own. Finally convinced to post his extensive collection of dashboard screenshots online, he was amazed to find how popular it has become. If you have a nice screenshot of an enterprise dashboard, balanced scorecard, or any business intelligence graphic to share, please send an email to info _at_ dashboardspy.com. Also check out The Dashboard Spy's favorite books.

Some executive dashboard screenshots from cymfony.com that focus on tracking marketing aspects such as corporate reputation, public relations, consumer opinion and brand management. Data sources include automated analysis of Consumer Generated Media (CGM) - i.e. "blogs". Here we see a screenshot of a brand dashboard that is keeping a watch on the pharmaceutical vertical. It shows clippings from publications that have mentioned the brand. Higher level statistics are presented in the "Buzz Box".

Homework: Study up on the lucrative field of brand marketing and management. This is a field ripe for dashboarding. Start with these books on brand management.

 So what or who is The Dashboard Spy? As his about page states, The Dashboard Spy is just a guy interested in the design of business dashboards. He could not find any executive dashboard design source books and so set about creating his own. Finally convinced to post his extensive collection of dashboard screenshots online, he was amazed to find how popular it has become. If you have a nice screenshot of an enterprise dashboard, balanced scorecard, or any business intelligence graphic to share, please send an email to info _at_ dashboardspy.com. Also check out The Dashboard Spy's favorite books.

The concept of heat map graphics works very well for stock market dashboards. See this one in action when the nasdaq is open and go here for the underlying technology.

This is an animated gif:

This is a screenshot of the one on the exchange:

So what or who is The Dashboard Spy? As his about page states, The Dashboard Spy is just a guy interested in the design of business dashboards. He could not find any executive dashboard design source books and so set about creating his own. Finally convinced to post his extensive collection of dashboard screenshots online, he was amazed to find how popular it has become. If you have a nice screenshot of an enterprise dashboard, balanced scorecard, or any business intelligence graphic to share, please send an email to info _at_ dashboardspy.com. Also check out The Dashboard Spy’s favorite books.