I was recently tasked with the mission of finding the state of the art in RMM (Remote Monitoring and Management) and wanted to check in and report some of the very cool findings I’ve made. Long time Dashboard Spy readers know that I’m fond of the data visualization and dashboard work that the infrastructure side of the industry does. Network management, endpoint security, remote backup and recovery and patch management are some areas that can produce a lot of data and bring reporting challenges. I’ve always watched the vendors in this space for how they manage their dashboard reporting.
I came across a company, N-able Technologies, that has a very sophisticated suite of tools in the RMM space.
Here is a good intro for those of you looking to investigate state of the art Remote Monitoring and Management solutions.
This is a video:
These are a couple of screen captures from the video showing some of their RMM dashboard views.
Enterprise Dashboard Digest readers know how I like to point out the ever-increasing adoption by the public of the dashboard layout as a design pattern. I’m always pointing out examples of dashboard-like layouts in popular software applications. I believe that the prevalence of the dashboard design is what makes today’s business intelligence dashboards so easy to adopt and embrace.
I just noticed that Youtube is now laying out “related videos” in a dashboard-like pattern at the end of their videos. Have you noticed what it now looks like? Take a look at these examples:
This video shows a desktop dashboard for marketers created in Solegi from http://www.stratigent.com.
The marketing dashboard examples deals with a multiple channel scenario that crosses both online and offline efforts. Take a look. Good background on marketing dashboard approach (case study is of a health insurance company marketing across multiple channels interested in tracking conversion funnel metrics).
I had the pleasure of being shown the ins and outs of the latest dashboard software product, Klipfolio Dashboard for Web and Mobile. Freshly launched, this dashboard system is a model of clarity in design and usability. Klipfolio President and CEO, Allan Wille, personally takes us through the Klipfolio screens in this video:
Tag: Klipfolio Dashboard for Web & Mobile. Easily assemble, monitor, and share key performance indicators (KPIs) for your business metrics on any device.
This excellent article on Scrum best practices focuses on the use of project dashboards in an agile environment. Titled Agile Project Dashboards, this article focuses on providing a solid approach to Agile Project Dashboards.
The main indicators suggested for the project dashboard are:
Project Progress Schedule
Delivered Business Value
Product Release Burn Up Chart
Team performance
Delivered Story Points
Highlights
Risks
Next Steps
Timeline
Release Plan
Overall Project Status (Red – Green – Yellow)
Read the article for elaboration on each of the points.
Here is the premise for the project dashboard:
We should take a minute to think about our PO’s priorities and responsibilities. Many companies end up with former Project Managers running this role. If that’s the case, there is a big chance that the PO will be responsible for managing costs, tracking project schedule, people, risks, follow up on features for commercial releases, communicating, etc. In many scenarios this kind of information won’t be necessarily revealed during a Demo, during the Sprint planning, or even on the Retrospectives. If that’s the case, there’s a chance that the team will be disrupted at some point to be asked about this data.
The question that arises here is: does the team have sufficient information to help the PO identify some of these variables and indicators? Can the Team provide more business value, apart from the Product Increment at the end of each Sprint? Can we take advantage of our Scrum ceremonies to compile some of this information in a clear and visual Dashboard?
Tis the season to make your lists and check them twice, isn’t it? Business intelligence practitioners among the Dashboard Spy readership know that the right business analytics and dashboards make all the difference between a smooth holiday season and one full of fulfillment mishaps. It turns out that Santa implemented several new business intelligence systems [...]
This dashboard example features a social media conversation dashboard. It’s basically a brand monitoring dashboard that crawls social media platforms such as Facebook or twitter as well as user forums of various kinds. The intent of the dashboard is to provide marketers with a synopsis of the discussions occurring as well as the tone of [...]
How critical is the data on your business intelligence dashboard? Yes, we all say that our data is important – but can your data mean the difference between life and death? I’m not kidding – I mean that literally. Take a look at the data dashboard hanging on the wall of this operating room: Read [...]
Dashboard implementation statistics. Ever wonder how many companies have implemented business intelligence dashboards or how far along they are in the process? Take a look at the graph below from this computerworld article on dashboard implementations. Looks like there is plenty more growth to come in the enterprise dashboard space. When enterprise dashboards reach a critical mass, and [...]
While I’ve been focusing on using recent versions of Microsoft Excel to produce dashboards, I do have examples of older Excel dashboards as well. To the dashboard spy reader who asked me for such an example, here is an executive dashboard software application developed in Excel for a large global financial company. The driver behind [...]
