Category Archives: Widget

Various methods of creating Digital Dashboards - Part 4

Read about the
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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Various methods of creating Digital Dashboards - Part 3

Read about the Type 2 Approach
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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Various methods of creating Digital Dashboards - Part 2

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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Various methods of creating Digital Dashboards - Part 1

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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Desktop Widget Sales pipeline Dashboard

 

Here is another example of Desktop widget based dashboard.
Sales Pipeline chart: This one is a stack bar chart with so many sections in the bar. I don’t know how the information can be deciphered by anybody other than the developer with so many bars stacked on together. And the colors are all shades of brown […]

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Financial KPI for Dashboards - 1

Financials KPI Listing
% Available
Percent available of total funds based on budgetary control option
% of Budget
Expenses as a percent of budget
% of Forecast
Expenses as percent of forecast
Actuals
Actual expense amount
Available
Amount of funds available based on budgetary control option
Average Days Delinquent
Average Days Delinquent in Receivables Management dashboard
Billing Activity
Billing Activity in Receivables Management dashboard
Budget
Budgeted expenses
Collection Effectiveness Index
Collection Effectiveness Index
Commitments
Commitment […]

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Dashboards : BI Desktop Widget Sales Pipeline

Dashboards widgets are going to be the future trend. The above is a nice example of the dashboard portlets right on the PC desktop screen.
It is cool, but see lot of drawbacks. You can just have one view where as with a Dashboard inside the html or dashboard viewer you can have multiple […]

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