Microsft Dashboards
Dashboards deliver important functionality within Microsoft's Business Intelligence offering.
Dashboards deliver information quickly while translating that information from various corporate systems and data into visually rich presentations using gauges, maps, charts, and other graphical elements to show multiple results together.
Dashboard solutions:
- Function on mobile platforms, utilising Microsoft SQL Server, Microsoft Reporting Services, Microsoft SharePoint and Microsoft® Office.
- Can be deployed as a standalone application or as a core element of an enterprise business intelligence or performance management platform.
- Offer personalised views of trusted key information.
- Deliver a high degree of visualization with graphs, gauges and charts.
Dashboards mean different things to different people. To some, a dashboard could mean a flashy, interactive technology that promotes high levels of user involvement. To others, it is a static report or a drillable interface that makes it easy to derive additional insight.
Microsoft BI recognizes that users have different comfort levels with technologies, and their individual roles dictate how and why they need this capability.
- Turn insight into action. A dashboard should provide decision makers with information that allows them to move from insight to action quickly. Microsoft BI supports an approach to exploring issues so that potential outcomes can be predicted facilitating preventative action while supporting a course.
- Dashboard information must be trustworthy. Data consistency is crucial to the success of any dashboard solution. No matter how spectacular the interface is, it means little unless it is being fed with trusted data from an enterprise-class platform. Without reliable and consistent data, the value of predictive analysis is limited at best. Microsoft BI uses the same services and a common business model so users share a complete and consistent view of data across the organization.
- Dashboards need to support new contexts. Business users are challenged to find the most relevant information in the context they need to make decisions. Dashboard views should be delivered beyond the boundaries of standard BI products to reach into and interoperate with multiple applications and environments. Microsoft BI is flexible to new contexts – and, therefore new insights - to the information at hand.
- Dashboards support ease of management. IT resources are a scarce and valuable resource in most organisations. Microsoft BI dashboard views can be authored once and accessed anywhere, which maximizes utility to the business.
