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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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Meta Group Rating of Vendors for Enterprise Reporting and Enterprise Dashboards

Dashboard Spy Reader Update: Dashboarders looking for a recent Enterprise Business Intelligence Tool Vendor Ranking Report should see this Dashboard Spy post about the 2007 IDC BI Tool Vendor Study: http://www.enterprise-dashboard.com/2007/09/06/top-5-business-intelligence-tool-vendors-2007/

Back in March of 2005, the information technology research and advisory company, Meta Group, released a vendor evaluation study of companies offering solutions in the category of “Enterprise Reporting and Dashboards“. There were 9 criteria used to judge the competing enterprise dashboard vendors: Presence, Connectivity, Distribution, Scalability and Performance, Parameterization, Usability, Development, Administration and Pricing. Thanks to a Dashboard Spy reader at Cal State University, we have a copy of the study to share with you.

We’ll look at sample dashboards from each vendor in the next few posts, but here are some graphics from the study to look at. The enterprise dashboard vendor study itself has detailed commentary that everybody involved in enterprise dashboard projects should study. It’s a must-read, so enjoy.

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Enterprise Reporting Dashboard Said on January 27th, 2009 at 11:31 pm quote
[...] dashboards. For a look at the highlights and detailed results please check the post on the enterprise dashboard vendor ratings. Moving on to another vendor covered by Meta Group in their rating of vendors for Enterprise [...]
Business Objects Crystal Dashboard | Dashboards By Example Said on July 21st, 2009 at 3:51 pm quote
[...] the series of enterprise dashboard screenshots that go along with the Dashboard Spy post “Meta Group Rating of Vendors for Enterprise Reporting and Enterprise Dashboards“, we look at some enterprise dashboard screenshots from Business [...]
SAS Dashboard Screenshots and examples | Dashboards By Example Said on July 28th, 2009 at 9:27 am quote
[...] 4.1 score ties SAS with Microsoft, and put them in a tie for fifth place. See the original post, Meta Group Rating of Vendors for Enterprise Reporting and Enterprise Dashboards, for the source study [...]
Microstrategy Enterprise Dashboard | Dashboards By Example Said on August 3rd, 2009 at 5:31 pm quote
[...] the sample executive dashboard screenshots from the enterprise dashboard vendors reviewed in the 2005 Meta Group rankings of enterprise reporting and dashboard vendors, is this set of Microstrategy management dashboards. Microstrategy scored lower due mostly to the [...]
Hillcrest Guest House, St. John, US Virgin Islands Said on November 19th, 2009 at 6:18 am quote
What is a dashboard? How can it help my business?
John Said on December 3rd, 2009 at 2:21 pm quote
Very informative site. If I may suggest, check out http://www.spiderstrategies.com I think you will enjoy the product, and the crews attention to using the most current technology to build upon.

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