Thanks to Sarah, a well-placed Dashboard Spy at Periscope Solutions, we have these enterprise dashboards to study. These screenshots show the IOD – Information On Demand Center, an enterprise dashboard solution that marshalls a company’s various information resources.  Users get one-point access to items such as corporate news, analyst reports, research reports, subscriptions, key documents and events info.

The first dashboard shows a user’s main dashboard with personalized portlets containing user views, topics, upcoming events, resources, recent records and recent notes.

The next dashboard screenshot show the profile tab with a user’s subscribed content categories.

This dashboard screenshot focuses on news and reports.

Homework: If you are on an enterprise dashboard project, do yourself a favor and take a look at Enterprise Dashboards: Design and Best Practices for IT, the only book on actually implementing enterprise dashboards.

So who is the Dashboard Spy? No one really knows, but his growing collection of enterprise dashboard screenshots has captured the imagination of the executive dashboarding community. From excel dashboards and custom-built business scorecards, to xcelsius and flex-based visualizations, the dashboard screenshots at dashboardspy.com serve both as nuggets of inspiration and warnings of what not to do on an enterprise dashboard. These hits and misses will enlighten and entertain. Technology-neutral, and always business-driven, the Dashboard Spy website is the place to go to learn about the latest enterprise dashboard packages. Check out the Dashboard Spy’s latest recommended book, Information Dashboard Design: The Effective Visual Communication of Data.