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SAS Dashboards on Nintendo Wii
Think you can get away from the pressures of business intelligence dashboards by hiding in your den and playing video games on the Nintendo Wii? Think again because SAS announced today that they are bringing SAS Dashboards to the Nintendo Wii platform. It seems that the product team at SAS feels that the Wii’s innovative [...]
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SAS Dashboards on Nintendo Wii
Church Dashboard Measures More Than Attendance
No matter what business niche we measure with our information dashboards, the success of our effort depends on selecting the right metrics and indicators. When attempting to truly understand the health of our business, we are challenged to look beyond the usual and obvious KPIs and incorporate the “you’re right, we have to take that [...]
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Church Dashboard Measures More Than Attendance
NCAA Tournament Dashboard
So how is March Madness going for you Dashboard Spies? Did you predict the Sweet 16 successfully? What? Don’t tell me you didn’t apply all that analytical skill and business intelligence savvy you have to your pool picks? You can model sales forecasts in the face of the worst economy since the Great Depression, but [...]
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Google Apps Status Dashboard
Dashboard Spy Design Topic: No Eye Candy for the Google Apps Dashboard.
Google’s latest dashboard allows users to monitor the availability of the various Google Apps services such as Gmail, Google Docs, Google Sites, Google Calendar, Google Video and Google Talk. The application health status dashboard was launched on February 26, 2009 as part of Google’s [...]
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Open Dashboard Methodology
As we gain hands-on experience with the design, implementation, launch and maintenance of business intelligence dashboards, we accumulate best practices and design patterns that we can rely upon and toss aside activities that lead us astray. After several dashboard projects, we come to realize the value of a dashboarding methodology. Of course, when discussing [...]
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Interaction Design Principles
Dashboard Design Topic: Principles of Interaction Design for Dashboard Designers.
Dashboard designers and builders often back into the disciples of user interface and interaction design through necessity after a few business intelligence projects. Once they get a few dashboard projects under their belt, they realize that there are quite a few subtleties in a dashboard project [...]
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When Dashboards Are Not Enough
As much as digital dashboards rock my world, I have to keep in mind that business intelligence is much more than a dashboard. In terms of that old tired metaphor, if a dashboard shows me the metrics of my vehicle in a small location right in front of me, then business intelligence is everything else [...]
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When Dashboards Are Not Enough
Quiz Results Dashboard
Business intelligence dashboards are usually serious affairs, with plenty of ominous red lights, tons of squiggly lines and stuffy disclaimers in tiny text. So, it’s always nice when a Dashboard Spy reader sends in a dashboard with a bit of whimsy.
Aaron Lyon (monkeymatic.com) is a skilled designer that was tasked to provide a leaderboard [...]
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Lightbox Images on Excel Dashboards
Today’s Dashboard Design Tip from the Dashboard Spy: Showing Images in Excel with a Web 2.0 Flair!
Excel dashboards can use the Lightbox image technique so popular with blogs and websites these days. Have you seen the effect where you click on an image or a link to a form and the new content pops up [...]
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Lightbox Images on Excel Dashboards
Dashboard Overload
Hello, my name is the Dashboard Spy and I’m a dashboard-aholic. Yes, I’ve looked at thousands of dashboards and I think they’re all wonderful. And, if you’re like most of my readers and involved in the design, implementation or management of business dashboards, I bet you also think that they are the best thing since the pie chart.Â
BUT, [...]
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