Monthly Archives: January 2008

Optimizing BI Dashboard Data Tables

Posted on January 30, 2008 by Dashboard Spy

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 … Continue reading →

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Dashboard Desktop Business Widgets for the Salesforce

Posted on January 29, 2008 by Dashboard Spy

Enterprise Dashboard Topic: Where to place the executive dashboard – in the browser (rich internet application), in a fat client (.NET windows software) or on the PC desktop itself (Desktop Widget)? In a recent Dashboard Spy discussion, we looked at … Continue reading →

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Excel 2007 Dashboards are NOT for Dummies

Posted on January 28, 2008 by Dashboard Spy

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. … Continue reading →

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175 Top Data Visualization Resources

Posted on January 24, 2008 by Dashboard Spy

Update: The Dashboard Spy’s Big List of Dashboard Experts is now live! Be sure to visit if you like these sorts of resource listings. Dashboard Spy readers are constantly sending me links to their favorite dashboarding, business intelligence and data … Continue reading →

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Dashboard Implementation Process Improvement

Posted on January 22, 2008 by Dashboard Spy

Over at the main Dashboard Spy site, we featured a look at the topic of performance improvement in general and the role of performance dashboards in particular. Among other things, we looked at the following diagram from the process improvement … Continue reading →

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