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From a simple excel dashboard to a fully integrated enterprise reporting suite, the Business Dashboard is being quickly adopted as the new face of Business Intelligence. It has a rapidly growing role in BI reporting and analysis.

An enterprise dashboard allows at-a-glance visualization of company health and monitoring of key performance indicators. Simple to understand and high in ROI, these executive dashboards are becoming "must-haves" for all enterprises. Easy-to-use by business users and fun-to-implement by the IT department, BI dashboard projects are quickly funded and politically popular.

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Enterprise Dashboard Mockup Wireframe Tool - a popular template from The Dashboard Spy

Update: This enterprise dashboard wireframe has proven to be a very popular tool with interaction designers for use as a dashboard prototyping tool. The powerpoint format, along with the high fidelity graphic approach, is serving the dashboarding community well. Enjoy this unique resource. Let me know how it helps you in your enterprise dashboard project. Tags: Executive Dashboard Usability, wireframe, dashboard prototype, enteprise dashboard template.

Not content with the hundreds of screenshots of actual enterprise dashboards and executive scorecards, Dashboard Spy readers have been demanding the release of my dashboard mockup and wireframe tools. These dashboard prototype templates are field-tested and have saved me hundreds of hours of work. Until now, they’ve been my own secret weapon. Now, I am releasing it to anyone involved in executive dashboard projects. Enjoy.

The dashboard templates come in the form of Powerpoint. The wide availablity of the software and the ease of use made it the eventual choice. Don’t think that because it’s Powerpoint, however, that it doesn’t look and act like some slick html prototype. After you try it, you’ll agree that this is some nicely done work. You can completely customize it for your particular situation.

My first release is the Cool Blue Template. As you see from the dashboard screenshot, it is a 3 column layout with smaller portlets on either side of a larger center column. The center is wider and features a data table. It’s my own design and business users seem to love it. Claim it as your own and let me know the response. I’ll roll out different executive dashboard styles now and then.

I’ve put the link to the template on The Dashboard Spy website. It’s still under construction, but I’ve activated the home page and the template section. Over the next few days, more functionality will be turned on. Feel free to explore the site as more content gets posted. As they say, “If you like the blog, you’ll love the site!”.

Here are the links: The Dashboard Spy Collection of Dashboard Screenshots.

The Dashboard Templates page of the site where you can download this wireframing tool for executive dashboards.

Also, if you have feedback or a “How do I…” question on this dashboard wireframing tool, please post a comment.

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Homework: Remember to always put your users first. Before you say no to the bells and whistles that they want, keep in mind that they are the ones that pay the bill for your project. On the other hand, your job as a data visualization expert is to guide selections, inform as to current best practices and, sometimes, protect your users from themselves.

Tags: Dashboard Template, Dashboard Wireframe Tool, Dashboard Prototyping

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One Response to “Enterprise Dashboard Mockup Wireframe Tool - a popular template from The Dashboard Spy”

Red Light - Green Light - 123 - Dashboard Indicator Icons, a graphic resource for enterprise dashboards from The Dashboard Spy « The Dashboard Spy Said on April 17th, 2007 at 1:51 pm quote
[...] Previously we made available a unique executive dashboard mockup and wireframe tool called the Cool Blue Enterprise Dashboard Template. It was a big hit that was downloaded by many executive dashboard project managers, business users, [...]

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P.S. Did you check out this free dashboard template for wireframing? Click on the image below for the download link and instructions. Consider it a gift for your unfailing support. Thank you very much. Sincerely, your friend in dashboarding, Dash.