Dashboard, when we look at the word, we might be confused, what does that mean? He looks so high and mighty.
In fact, its Chinese meaning is our BI industry commonplace topic – dashboard. Dashboard is short for business intelligence instrument panel, it is the realization of the general business intelligence has data visualization module, is to show enterprise measurement information and key business indicators data visualization tools, the status quo of the dashboard key characteristics from multiple data sources to obtain real-time data, and is customized interactive interface, with rich, The interactive visual interface provides a better experience of using data.
Dashboard is an important means for enterprises to present data, so what does dashboard do?
Next, I will take Smartbi, a well designed dashboard in China, as an example for analysis.
Smartbi is a magic tool for visual analysis. Users can simply drag and drop multiple data views to show key measurement information and business indicators to users in the form of “visualization chart + data” and gain insight into hidden data insights. Both management decision makers and ordinary employees in enterprise business processes can use it to show the results of analysis, making decisions more rapid and accurate, promoting the progress of business processes faster, and improving work efficiency.
1. Ease of use
Simple and convenient operation design, without any technical background, business users can get started in just a few minutes.
Smartbi provides intuitive interface operations. Even business personnel can also use a simple mouse operation, flexible according to the needs of a variety of resources customized; With perfect security management system, support multi-level user management; Use report macro and plug-in way for secondary development, convenient maintenance and so on.
Figure: Schematic diagram of self-help dashboard design
2. Rich visualization ability
Support list table, cross table, bar line pie chart, sunrise chart, joint chart, scatter chart, word cloud chart, radar chart, oil volume chart, Mulberry chart, thermal map, map, funnel chart and other dozens of graphic tables.
In order to cooperate with BI to better display various business indicators and other data of an enterprise, Dashboard generally has data visualization forms such as charts, dashboards and maps, scorecards, Sparkline and status indicators. Smartbi has all these basic components and has multiple advanced Dashboard templates built-in.
3. Rich ways of interaction
In addition to powerful icon visualization capabilities, the self-service dashboard also provides a series of interactive capabilities, enabling users to perform associated interactive analysis of various data.
Supports custom drill-down to detailed data or jump to other reports based on the chart on the current page;
Support the production of running lantern effect;
Supports 4 opening modes: New window, TAB page, floating window, etc.
Support URL link support internal and external resources interaction;
Refresh data periodically, and take effect on all components of the current page;
Streaming layout, one-click publishing to APP.
4. Analysis function
Provide histogram, line graph, pie chart, stack chart, double Y axis, instrument panel and other graph analysis methods; It provides a variety of visual operation methods such as slicing, cutting, drilling and row and row interchange. Export service analysis results in TXT, CSV, HTML, PDF, Doc, Xlsx, and data analysis package. Time calculation and secondary calculation can be set according to business attributes, such as rapid analysis of annual/monthly/daily growth rate, etc.
