A CIO and his Dashboard (and they lived happily ever after)

April 12, 2006

A CIO and his Dashboard (and they lived happily ever after)

Filed under: Dashboard Screenshots — dashboardspy @ 11:59 am

Here is how things are supposed to work after you pour all that effort into your enterprise dashboard project. Screenshots from the product pdf at http://www.finisar.com/nt/netwisdom.php

Enterprise Dashboard Screenshot

Executive Dashboard Screenshot

Business Dashboard Screenshot

Digital Dashboard 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 enterprise dashboards. He could not find any executive dashboard design source books (or even screenshots of real business dashboards) 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 of a digital dashboard, balanced scorecard, or any business intelligence graphic to share, please send an email to info _at_ dashboardspy.com. Also check out The Dashboard Spy's favorite books.

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Executive Dashboards

Looking for examples of Executive Dashboards? The Dashboard Spy collection of executive dashboard screenshots has moved to this link: Dashboard. At http://www.enterprise-dashboard.com, you can study the best practices of over 837 dashboard screenshots!

Welcome to The Dashboard Spy - a collection of executive dashboard screenshots. This reference work is proudly offered as a source book to everyone involved in executive dashboard design and implementation. May it spur plenty of ideas and lead to a successful executive dashboard, scorecard or business intelligence project.

What is a Dashboard?

Known by many names (enterprise dashboard, executive dashboard, digital dashboard, business dashboard, business intelligence dashboard, performance dashboard, balanced scorecard, kpi summary, data visualization, and so on...), it is basically a way for business users to get an at-a-glance understanding of metrics of importance to them. In addition to acting as a summarization device, the dashboard also serves to highlight specific data and allows the user to drill down and inspect specific items. It allows a browsing style of user interaction in addition to the usual menu based navigation. As such, the dashboard also represents a user interface design pattern that designers should study and understand. From the perspective of information technology staff, the dashboard often represents a consolidation of data from disparate data sources. The effort is usually considerable when it comes to the necessary extraction, transformation and presentation of the data.

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April 12, 2006