How Successful Companies Leverage Business Intelligence - From a BI perspective what is providing greater business leverage in these volatile times for different companies? Clearly in volatile times, companies tend to want to contract their human resources. They want to contract their activities. They want to downsize and so forth. But leading companies around the world, and ones that are really successful, even if their revenues are declining over time, are finding that the use of information, clearly business intelligence information, is assisting them in making better decisions on how to use resources and at the same time reducing costs in processes, changing processes during a volatile time and not just hunkering down financially, but becoming more innovative. Generally you see that in a strong economy, but when economies are weak, people have to become innovative. Pain occurs. They look for doctors and consultants to help them out business-wise. What we have seen over the past year is something very interesting. It’s an approach that says, I am going to get smarter about the way I am doing things. It’s the smart information, smart people, smarter people, smarter channels, access to data, and data warehouses...
How to Make a Circle Packing Chart in InetSoft - To create a circle packing chart, place the desired hierarchical dimensions in the 'T' region of the Chart Editor, and place the desired measure in the 'Size' region of the Chart Editor. Use the 'Color' region to distinguish particular dimension values by color. NOTE: To create a grid of charts, place dimensions into the 'X' and/or 'Y' regions as well. (See Trellis Chart (Grid) for more information...
How to Make Your Entire Business Data-Focused - A healthy company culture will keep your business moving forward while navigating constant changes that emerge in the commercial landscape around you. When you're in the process of improving the way you do things internally, developing a data-driven company culture will push you ahead of the pack, one innovative initiative at a time. Here, we look at how to create a data-driven company culture while considering the vital role business intelligence software plays in reaching your organizational goals...
How People Use Business Intelligence On Their Mobile Devices - With the increasing adoption of mobile devices, it's now possible to access business intelligence tools and data from anywhere, anytime. One of the most common ways people use BI on their mobile devices is through dashboards and reports. Dashboards and reports provide a graphical representation of key metrics and data that help people quickly understand the current state of the business. By accessing dashboards and reports on their mobile devices, people can stay informed about the latest developments and make informed decisions on the go. Another way people use BI on their mobile devices is through mobile BI apps. These apps are specifically designed for mobile devices and provide a range of functionalities, such as data visualization, data analysis, and report creation. Mobile BI apps allow people to interact with their data and make informed decisions, even when they are away from their desk. People also use BI on their mobile devices to collaborate with their colleagues and partners. BI tools often include collaboration features that allow people to share data, reports, and insights with others. By accessing these features on their mobile devices, people can stay connected with their teams and make informed decisions together, even when they are not in the same location...
How to Create a Supply Chain Dashboard - This training page will explain how to create a supply chain dashboard such as the one below using dashboard creation software from InetSoft. A working version of this dashboard can be found on the InetSoft Gallery. This dashboard is primarily composed of charts. Below, we will examine some of these charts, discuss their value for supply chain tracking and see how easy they are to create with InetSoft's solution...
How to Use Data Exploration Techniques with InetSoft's Web Business Intelligence Application - Here we'll teach you how use data exploration techniques with InetSoft's Web-based business intelligence application. You can use brushing to highlight data in one chart and see related data in accompanying charts or apply simple table formatting to make data discovery easier. A well-designed dashboard or report can help business users make faster, more insightful observations which can lead to bettter decision-making and better corporate performance. Dashboards often contain multiple charts representing the same data in different ways. When this is the case, it's often useful to highlight corresponding data in different charts in order to discover relationships or explore contributions. You can do this easy with a technique called brushing. Let’s say for instance, I wanted to isolate Eric’s information on this chart. I could use my selection list, but I wouldn’t be able to see its value in the context of the other sales people’s performance. So let’s clear the selection, and now we will brush Eric’s information. First I will just click on an empty area in this chart, and then I will just drag across Eric’s bar. I will go up here to this paint brush icon, and you will see that immediately all of the corresponding charts have Eric’s information highlighted in red...
How to Use Interesting Features of InetSoft's Web Based Business Intelligence Tool - When you bind the text, textbox, table or chart element to data, you can specify a highlight for the element. A highlight is a conditional format that applies a visual effect based on the value of the data displayed by the element. A highlight is comprised of a foreground color, a background color and the font which we apply to the element when a specific data condition is met. In this example, we are going to add element that allows any values in the state of New Jersey to be highlighted in green in both the table and the chart. Here in the design mode, we will highlight our entire detail item. Now we go down to our properties pane. We will add a new highlight called NJ or New Jersey. We will make it so that whenever there is a value for New Jersey, the background is green...
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