Business dashboards: a visual catalog for design and deployment

This book examines dashboard technology. It will focus on selecting the rightdashboards for use in an organization, and on how to successfully deploy the dashboards by building the optimal server and software architecture. It will also describe the value of this popular technology to a business and how it canhave a significant impact on performance improvement. The book will contain real-life dashboard images organized by category. It will also provide many examples of key performance indicators to help design the content of dashboards. The tentative outline is: (1) Introduction--Definition; why dashboards have become so popular; types of dashboards; (2) Creating the Right BI Architecture to Support Dashboards--why a good architecture is important; Sample architecture for real-time dashboards; sample architecture for a data warehouse-based dashboards; architecture options; key performance indicators; (3) Dashboard Examples--executive dashboards; operational dashboards; (4) Managing a Dashboard Project--Planning the project; building user support and interest; the kick off;Project tips; (5) Appendices--Installation; hardware recommendations; security; training your staff; successfully deploying dashboards to the users; KPI examples by category.

• ISBN: 978-0-470-41347-0
• Editorial: John Wiley & Sons
• Encuadernacion: Rústica
• Páginas: 286
• Fecha Publicación: 20/03/2009
• Nº Volúmenes: 1
• Idioma: Inglés