This is a Type-1 Dashboard tutorial
Let us analyze the options of building a dashboard using Pentaho,one of the popular and open source BI system.
Dashboards are a very important presentation of data. Business users like dashboards since they give them various information objects on one page, mixing diagrams, tables and maybe even textual information. Although […]
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Type - 1 approach
Type - 2 approach
Type - 3 approach
Type 4: This type defines the method of creating dashboard using Excel. The data and presentation is all part of the Excel file. This is the most popular approach as it is very easy and affordable to create dashboards. It is the least favourable […]
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Type 3: This category involves the use of some big vendor BI tool. These BI tools are quite comprehensive and come with tons of options to choose from. They provide ad-hoc reporting and easy dashboard creation options. Once installed and configured, there is often a need to define data layer […]
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This is a continuation of the Dashboard Creation Methods
Type 2: This category involves the use of some Dashboard designing tool. You need to download and install the third party software and learn their basic steps in designing the dashboards. Most often the designing tools offer variety of connection methods to the various databases and write […]
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Are you trying to build a Dashboard or a new Application?
Three are three types of Dashboard Solutions
Type 1: This category defines those tutorials where you built everything from scratch. You write your own SQL queries, database connection methods and create data files. Then you construct your own presentation layer by defining the html, XML and […]
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This is a good tutorial on how to create a flash based dashboard. Although the steps demonstrated are for a static dashboard you could use a scripting engine like PHP to feed dynamic data to the chart engine.
NOTE: You need to know a scripting language like ASP or PHP in order to deliver a complete […]
Creating dashboards with PHP and Flex
Here is a tutorial to build dashboards using PHP and Flex platform. PHP is the dominating scripting language of the internet and is part of the LAMP stack (yep “p” stands for PHP).
The steps for creating this type of dashboard is very mechanical as you need to know PHP and […]
