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Enterprise Dashboard Cosmetics

On this blog, we focus on the value that the “cosmetic” elements can give to business intelligence dashboards. I’ll probably get into big trouble for this post, but a long-time reader of The Dashboard Spy sent me this graphic and I just have to show it to you.

As the submitter explains:

Hello Dashboard Spy, I have submitted a few sas/graph dashboards in the past. But this one is not like my previous dashboard screenshots, and it is just for “fun” (and please keep my name anonymous ;)  Hopefully it won’t offend the women-drivers too much (use your own discretion about how much trouble posting it on your site will bring you! :) I guess the story-line could go something like this…

“A lot of people complained that my dashboards looked too ‘plain’, and I should concentrate on the ‘cosmetics’
of my dashboards more.  So, here you go - the cosmetic dashboard…”   ;) Just thought you might enjoy it! …

 

Dashboard Cosmetics

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One Response to “Enterprise Dashboard Cosmetics”

  1. rhonda Said on October 29th, 2008 at 1:01 pm quote

    No offense taken. Very clever.

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