InetSoft Product How-To: Dashboard Graphics

Dashboard graphics facilitate the identification of visual elements in business reports leading to the quick recognition of marketplace trends.

To represent data using fill pattern or shape, drag a dimension or measure from the ‘Data Source’ panel to the ‘Shape’ field in the ‘Visual’ panel.

To specify the order in which the patterns/shapes are applied to the levels of a dimension, follow the steps below:

1. Click the ‘Edit’ button next to the ‘Shape’ field. This opens the shape selection menu.

2. Click on the shape menus to create the desired pattern/shape order.

3. Click ‘Apply’ to finalize the setting. To reset the shape order, click the ‘Reset’ button on the shape menu.

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To specify the manner in which shapes are used to code the measure values, follow the steps below:

1. Click the ‘Edit’ button next to the ‘Shape’ field. This opens the shape selection menu.

2. Select a pattern style for the value coding. For the ‘Left Tilt’, ‘Right Tilt’ and ‘Grid’ options, the density of the pattern represents the measure value. For the ‘Orientation’ option, the angle of the hashing represents the measure value.

3. Click ‘Apply’ to finalize the setting.

To represent data using size, drag a dimension or measure from the ‘Data Source’ panel to the ‘Size’ field in the ‘Visual’ panel. To specify the range of sizes that should be used in representing the levels of a dimension or values of a measure, follow the steps below:

1. Click the ‘Edit’ button next to the ‘Size’ field. This opens a size range slider.

2. Adjust the slider to select the smallest and largest element size.

3. Click ‘Apply’ to finalize the setting.

InetSoft Viewpoint

"You actually use more business intelligence capabilities. So in between the execution phase and the final evaluation, you’re constantly tracking and monitoring your performance so you can tune your execution. That’s where business intelligence with dashboards for analysis and monitoring come in. And in between the evaluation phase and incorporating your learnings or findings and adapting your strategy, you need to do some in-depth analytics. That’s the more traditional forecasting or predictive analytics as well as things like data mining. So there is a piece that is more business intelligence as it relates to the management system, and then there is a piece that is more performance management, and you couple them together. After some months of active use of the platform, go back to the users and find out where they get value out of the system, what they’ve been using it for, and start to use those thought leaders, the folks that have been the most aggressive users getting this value out of it. Use them, perhaps, as a way to add the additional performance management capabilities into the organization." - Mark Flaherty, CMO, InetSoft

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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