Dundas Website Operations Dashboard
The Website Operations Dashboard has been put together to display the various statistics and figures associated with an active website. Again the aim of this dashboard is to compile essential information in a clear and easy-to-read format, while also including all important data. The primary chart on this dashboard illustrates individual visitors to the site [...]
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Calendar Dashboard for Sales Executives from Extended Results
Executives of any kind need to be skilled in time management. Organizing and keeping track of meetings and projects is a full time job in itself. Now, Extended Results have designed a calendar dashboard that can help executives to keep track of their schedule. It also allows them to monitor the progress of various projects [...]
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Arcplan Enterprise’s Product Dashboard
The dashboard pictured below is a sales and product based dashboard from Arcplan Enterprise. It has been designed to allow users to view financial reports of sales performance for selected products. This dashboard is composed of three primary sections. The main section is a large table, which is somewhat unusual for dashboards of this kind, [...]
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IT Planning Dashboard from iDashboards
The IT Planning Dashboard from iDashboards is designed to monitor IT development and usage in an organization. This dashboard has multiple tabs which deal with various sectors of any IT department. For example there is a Resource Monitoring tab, a Capital Planning tab and three Call Metrics tabs. The Resource Monitoring tab, pictured below, provides [...]
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Mockups and Wireframes – Dashboards and Business Intelligence
After looking at this Mockup and Wireframe Application from the makers of InfoCaptor, and “If you wondered what took so long to have a prototyping tool for dashboards” then we exactly share your sentiment. So if you don’t want to wait any further jump ahead and join the Beta invitation for MockupTiger – The only [...]
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Oracle Design Guidelines – Queries Views (Part 6)
In the previous posts we have looked at the various formatting guidelines for reports that are based on user queries. So far we have considered the best settings for column and gridline displays, layouts and charts. However an important consideration when setting up Queries Views is the issue of titles, or Titles Views. When setting [...]
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Oracle Design Guidelines – Queries Views (Part 7)
In the previous six posts, we have been look at how to correctly generate reports that are based on user queries. In this, the final post of the series, we will discuss Pivot Tables, Column Selectors and Report-Level Prompts. Pivot Tables are integral components of many dashboards, but they do require certain specific settings in [...]
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Oracle Design Guidelines – Queries Design (Part 3)
Just as it is important to ensure that only the necessary amount of columns are included in any report, it is also important to include only the required number of views. Using an Oracle BI application it is possible to remove a view from a report without actually deleting it. In order to achieve this, [...]
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Oracle Design Guidelines – Queries Design (Part 4)
There are two core elements of any dashboard – the dashboard interface itself and the reports it generates. When creating a dashboard, most people will initially focus on the dashboard itself – its appearance, its layout and the data it will contain. However, it is also important to consider the appearance and components of the [...]
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Oracle Design Guidelines – Queries Views (Part 5)
In the previous post we looked at some of the various chart formatting options that are recommended by the Oracle Design Guidelines for reports. This included minimizing axis titles and text, and avoiding heavily colored gridlines. Following on from this, it is worth considering the placement of data labels. In order to minimize clutter in [...]
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