CapitalOne CardLab Dashboard
March 4, 2008
The Digital Dashboard as a design paradigm has now reached the public consciousness. The digital dashboard is ready for prime time. How do I know? I happened to come across a television commercial today that actually featured a digital dashboard! CapitalOne... Read more...
Google Sites Dashboards - Project Management Dashboard Example
March 1, 2008
Is Google planning to become a viable choice for business dashboards? Google has just made available a compelling, no cost, product of great interest to the business intelligence dashboard community. Google Sites is a “suite of products for improving... Read more...
Mobile BI Dashboards from Business Objects
February 28, 2008
Dashboards by Example recently focused on mobile business intelligence dashboards with the post on Cognos Mobile Dashboards. We looked at Cognos Report access via Window Mobile, RIM Blackberry and Symbian devices. Today we continue our examination of... Read more...
Klipfolio Enterprise Desktop Dashboards - Sales Dashboard Example
February 12, 2008
Lately we’ve been discussing the Principle of Placement, one of the rules underlying business intelligence dashboard design. Remember the post about the 3 Rules of Dashboarding in which we discussed the great article in CIO Today - The End Game... Read more...
Mashup Dashboards with Websphere Portal and Google Gadgets
February 6, 2008
Since we’ve been talking about the design of Business Intelligence Dashboards and the influence of Web 2.0, I want to make sure to stress that Web 2.o is NOT about the shiny look of the big buttons. Web 2.0 is not about what the page looks like.... Read more...
Balanced Scorecard Meets Web 2.0
February 4, 2008
As mentioned in the Dashboard Spy post “Evolution of Dashboard Design Aesthetics“, there has been a trend of business intelligence dashboards and Balanced Scorecard Designs adopting the Web 2.0 look. Recently we’ve seen a lot of positive... Read more...
Optimizing BI Dashboard Data Tables
January 30, 2008
Business Intelligence Dashboards are often lavishly illustrated with bar graphs, pie charts and other graphics of metrics and KPIs. However, as you know, the plain old data table often makes an appearance on our dashboard interfaces. How do we make these... Read more...
Dashboard Desktop Business Widgets for the Salesforce
January 29, 2008
In a recent Dashboard Spy discussion, we looked at some BI Desktop Widgets from the lab over at Business Objects. This is a very exciting idea that effectively addresses one of the 3 Rules of Dashboarding - The Rule of Placement. Both Business Objects... Read more...
Excel 2007 Dashboards are NOT for Dummies
January 28, 2008
Dashboard Spy readers know how much I am convinced that Microsoft Excel 2007 will be leading a new wave of dashboards across the corporate world. The new version of MS Excel is built from the ground up with tools for dashboarding. Remember this UI designer... Read more...
175 Top Data Visualization Resources
January 24, 2008
Dashboard Spy readers are constantly sending me links to their favorite dashboarding, business intelligence and data visualization resources. I’ve been meaning to compile a Dashboard Spy Favorites List of these valuable sites, but have been holding... Read more...