Alarm status dashboard

Another in the series from the Nimsoft business dashboards at http://www.nimsoft.com/dashboards/gallery.shtml, this one shows the alarm status of geographic locations. The company states: “This dashboard utilizes a blue background with simple, but effective, line objects to represent various business locations. Alarm filters are defined per line object and when alerts should occur at any given location their highest level severity will be displayed. Selecting a line object will show its alerts in the NimBUS alert list just below.”

So what or who is The Dashboard Spy? As his about page states, The Dashboard Spy is just a guy interested in the design of business dashboards. He could not find any executive dashboard design source books and so set about creating his own. Finally convinced to post his extensive collection of dashboard screenshots online, he was amazed to find how popular it has become. If you have a nice screenshot to share, please send an email to info _at_ dashboardspy.com. Also check out The Dashboard Spy’s favorite books.

Soda machine dashboard

Again, from the Nimsoft dashboard gallery at http://www.nimsoft.com/dashboards/gallery.shtml, here is a dashboard developed to monitor a soda machine. This is for real! As stated, “this creative dashboard was created to monitor the inventory in their office soda machine.  It provides real-time visibility necessary to address low inventory levels, and should the unit temperature begin to rise to a warning level, a service person can be contacted before the refrigerated product is compromised.”

So what or who is The Dashboard Spy? As his about page states, The Dashboard Spy is just a guy interested in the design of business dashboards. He could not find any executive dashboard design source books and so set about creating his own. Finally convinced to post his extensive collection of dashboard screenshots online, he was amazed to find how popular it has become. If you have a nice screenshot to share, please send an email to info _at_ dashboardspy.com. Also check out The Dashboard Spy’s favorite books.

Dashboard monitoring MS Exchange health status

Nimsoft maintains a dashboard gallery at http://www.nimsoft.com/dashboards/gallery.shtml. Here is a shot of a dashboard which monitors the health of an MS Exchange server:

So what or who is The Dashboard Spy? As his about page states, The Dashboard Spy is just a guy interested in the design of business dashboards. He could not find any executive dashboard design source books and so set about creating his own. Finally convinced to post his extensive collection of dashboard screenshots online, he was amazed to find how popular it has become. If you have a nice screenshot to share, please send an email to info _at_ dashboardspy.com. Also check out The Dashboard Spy’s favorite books.

Management Dashboard

This management dashboard at http://www.tatainfotech.com/mgmtdashboard/features.htm is from the Indian IT company, Tata Infotech.They state “The Management Dashboard provides an effective tool for setting expectations for an organization at each level and continuous monitoring of the performance against set targets.”

 

Here is the graphic of their architecture:

So what or who is The Dashboard Spy? As his about page states, The Dashboard Spy is just a guy interested in the design of business dashboards. He could not find any executive dashboard design source books and so set about creating his own. Finally convinced to post his extensive collection of dashboard screenshots online, he was amazed to find how popular it has become. If you have a nice screenshot to share, please send an email to info _at_ dashboardspy.com. Also check out The Dashboard Spy’s favorite books.

Secret Salesforce Management Dashboard

Sorry - I can’t divulge anything about this salesforce management dashboard. Excuse the censorship in the graphic. Note the quote from a happy user - “It deserves to win a Nobel Prize!”. Talk about a happy user. Thanks to the Dashboard Spy who smuggled me this screenshot:

So what or who is The Dashboard Spy? As his about page states, The Dashboard Spy is just a guy interested in the design of business dashboards. He could not find any executive dashboard design source books and so set about creating his own. Finally convinced to post his extensive collection of dashboard screenshots online, he was amazed to find how popular it has become. If you have a nice screenshot to share, please send an email to info _at_ dashboardspy.com. Also check out The Dashboard Spy’s favorite books.

Microsoft Excel 2007 Video on Business Intelligence

You’ve got to watch the Channel 9 video at http://channel9.msdn.com/Showpost.aspx?postid=164396. As Charles Torre (Microsoft Technical Evangelist) says in his post, “Is there any business intelligence out there? Mike Arcuri, group program manager on the business intelligence team shows off Excel 12’s new features for looking at how your business is doing.”

The video is a must-watch for seeing how Office 2007 and Excel 12 in particular will make business intelligence even easier to obtain. Excel will contain dashboard features! Arcuri defines a dashboard as “a bunch of parts that show relevant, related information in a coherent way, on the same screen.”

Arcuri presents the features via a business scenario. It is a non-technical discussion that all business users should listen to. It concentrates on “what’s going on” and “why”.

I’ve captured some stills of the dashboard from the video.

Here is the main page from the demo. It’s a Sharepoint page with webparts:

This next shot shows the Business Scorecard webpart (powered by the Business Scorecard Manager):

This tool tip shows an out-of-line data point:

The chart web part with image rendered by Excel Services:

The web part containing the live Excel workbook bound to external data (SQL Analysis Services)”

Here are some configuration options for dashboard presentation elements:

 

 

So what or who is The Dashboard Spy? As his about page states, The Dashboard Spy is just a guy interested in the design of business dashboards. He could not find any executive dashboard design source books and so set about creating his own. Finally convinced to post his extensive collection of dashboard screenshots online, he was amazed to find how popular it has become. If you have a nice screenshot to share, please send an email to info _at_ dashboardspy.com. Also check out The Dashboard Spy’s favorite books.