Dashboards: Your Business at a glance !

In the age of information overload, dashboards have emerged as the primary tool to visualize the state
of the business in a concise way.

By integrating various data points into a single perspective, rapid analysis and decision-making is easy.
Instead of analyzing multiple reports and the relationships between them, a dashboard offers an analytical perspective of a process or business activity. All relationships and the associated measures are presented to the user in a single prepackaged view.

This concise packaging of information makes dashboards a favorite tool to pragmatic managers who use them to avoid “analysis paralysis” – indecisiveness from too many reports and variables used during the decision-making process. Executives and operational managers rely on dashboards to gauge events and act instantaneously to maintain the stability and reliability of business processes.

Glossary of Related Terms

Adapters (Data Adapters, Application Adapters) B2B (B2B Software, Business to Business Integration, Business to Business) BI Software BI Systems (BI Services) BI Technology (B.I. Technologies) BI Tools BizTalk Server (BizTalk Integration, BizTalk Adapters ) Business Integration Business Intelligence (Business Intelligence Software, Business Intelligence Solution) Compliance (Compliance Reporting, Regulatory Reporting) Dashboard Data Analysis Database Integration (Data Integration, Enterprise Data Integration) Decision Support (Decision Support System, Decision Support Systems, DSS) EAI (Enterprise Application Integration, Enterprise Integration) e-Business (eBusiness, e-Business Software) ERP (Enterprise Resource Planning, ERP Adapters, ERP Systems, ERP Integration)

ESB (EnterpriseService Bus) ETL (Extract, Transform, Load, ETL Tools, ETL Software) Extended Enterprise Information Delivery Integration (Enterprise Integration, Systems Integration, Integration Software) IT Infrastructure (Infrastructure Software) Key Performance Indicators (Developing KPIs) Messaging (Messaging Integration, Messaging Technology) Middleware OLAP (Online Analytical Processing, OLAP Tools) Real-Time Reporting Reporting (Web Reporting, Enterprise Reporting, Reporting Tools) Sarbanes-Oxley Act Sarbanes-Oxley Compliance Service Oriented Architecture (SOA, SOA and EAI, SOA and Java, SOA Adapters) Web Services (Web Services integration, Web Services EAI)