InetSoft Product Features & Benefits: Strategic Planning Dashboards

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Designing Dashboard Charts - Need to create an impressive visual element for published reports? Dashboard charts can be designed to take on the look and substance of your choosing. Leave no questions on the table with InetSoft's visualization software. The Chart Editor automatically categorizes numerical fields of a Data Block as “measures” and non-numerical fields as “dimensions.” Typically, dimensions are used as X-axis data, and measures are used as Y-axis data. Only dimensions can be used in the ‘Breakdown by’ field of the ‘Data’ panel. Measures and dimensions have different properties. You can sort and rank dimension data, and set aggregation methods for the measure data. The following sections explain this in more detail. 1. To edit the representation of a dimension, click the ‘Edit Dimensions’ button in the ‘Data’ panel. 2. To edit the representation of a measure, click the ‘Edit Measures’ button in the ‘Data’ panel. 3. To convert a dimension to a measure, right-click the dimension in the tree, and select ‘Convert to Measure’ from the context menu. 4. To convert a measure to a dimension, right-click the measure in the tree, and select ‘Convert to Dimension’ from the context menu...

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Designing Dashboards Online - Looking for a good application for for designing dashboards online? InetSoft is a pioneer in self-service dashboarding and offers an easy tool for creating them. View a demo and try interactive examples...

Designing Good Looking Dashboards - And the last lesson for designing good looking dashboards is number seven, content is king. This goes for anything. The long-term success and adoption of the dashboard is really determined by the strength of this content, not the brightness of its color. Go beyond showing the trivial and solving simple problems to taking a stab at the complicated problems. Those are the problems that dashboards should be solving. These are the conversations that you should be having during the meetings. When you are designing dashboards, there are the basics that you want to have. You don't want to have the debate around colors and effects, much more on the content of the dashboard. Dashboard should really serve to elevate your discussions and you can think of it as going from an old and classy TV to a high-definition screen. The enhanced resolution does not necessarily make people look better or simply enhance their appearance. We can just ask newscasters and the makeup artists. The additional visual power simply exposes more information, whether it is flattering or not, so the conversation you have about your data should take advantage of this extra power and enhance precision...

Designing an Internet of Things Dashboard - Things to Know - It turns out that the Internet is uncontrollable. We are transitioning from desktop computers, cell phones, and outdated routers into a new age known as the Internet of Things. Numerous home objects have been developed that can link to the Internet, including cars, watches, dog collars, and refrigerators. All of this is done in order to examine distinct client demands using their data. In this post, we'll look at how to utilize the data the Internet of Things produces, why it should be analyzed, and then what resources to use to create our own IoT dashboards. Building IoT dashboards is done for a number of purposes, including: Automatically add location, time, weather, temperature, and other external elements specific to your consumers to incoming data from your equipment...

DevOps Dashboard Tool - Are you looking for a good DevOps dashboard tool? InetSoft's pioneering dashboard reporting application produces great-looking web-based dashboards with an easy-to-use drag-and-drop designer. Get cloud-flexibility for your deployment. Minimize costs with a small-footprint solution. Maximize self-service for all types of users. No dedicated BI developer required. View a demo and try interactive examples.

Different Versions of a Single Dashboard - How do you manage the fact that different people will need different versions of a single dashboard, different access to data, for instance? This is extremely common. An operational person on the front line will need to see a certain granularity of data, and then his manager wants to see what he is doing. His manager wants to see what all the employees are doing. Can you make one dashboard that handles all of these needs or do they end up being discrete? In some cases, it is best if they are discrete. You definitely have your general dashboard that many different types of people will use. But for the dashboard to be really effective, you really need to give capabilities focused on the individual person or at least role. You may need to tailor the dashboard to their particular skill set. For example, for many business users, you probably want to keep it simple. But for the line manager working in a manufacturing company, you might want to have more information at their finger tips because that is what they are used to. So in general, I would say that the concept of a general layout doesn’t really work. You really need a dashboard designed for specific roles and sometimes for a specific person...

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Digital Dashboards for Business - Are you searching for a digital dashboard for your business? InetSoft's Style Intelligence offers a 100% Web-based, server-based solution that delivers exactly what you're looking for. The World Wide Web has become the universal standard for communication today. Every business is online and it follows that your dashboards should be as well. Usability and general familiarity with the platform create a centralized environment for reporting and analysis. This makes Web-based BI attractive to many organizations. Always online tools avoid the need for the costly support staff that is needed to troubleshoot desktop-bound software for hundreds (or thousands) of users. When everyone is using the same tools, it becomes much easier to offer support when users have questions or concerns...

Disparate Dashboard Data - InetSoft's dashboard software provides users the flexibility to simultaneously access disparate sources of data. You can access the value in the current row of another column by using the field keyword. For example, field['col_name'] refers to the value in the current row of a column named “col_name.” This example continues from Accessing Data in the Current Cell. It will set the color of the 'Name' column based on the value of the 'Price' column: 1. Select a cell in the 'Name' column. Right-click and choose 'Format'. 2. Select the Color tab. From the 'Text Color' menu select the 'Expression' option, and click the 'Edit' button. This opens the Formula Editor. 3. In the Formula Editor, enter the following expression: if (field['Price'] > 1000) { [255,0,0]; } else { [0,0,255]; } 4. Click 'OK' to exit the Formula Editor, and then click 'OK' to exit the 'Format' dialog box. The values in the 'Name' column are now highlighted based on the corresponding values in the 'Price' column...

Displaying Dashboard Data - Users have the ability to display live data using InetSoft's award-winning dashboard software, an all-in-one business intelligence solution for mid-sized and large enterprises than comes as a stand alone or embeddable solution. There are several ways to limit the number of rows (records) presented in a table: • To limit the number of rows retrieved and displayed by a particular table in Live Data mode only, set the 'Max Display Rows' property in the table 'Table Properties' dialog box. • To limit the number of rows retrieved from the database at runtime (and displayed in Preview and Live Data modes), set the 'Max Rows' property in the table 'Table Properties' dialog box. • To globally limit the number of rows returned by all queries and sub-queries, set the 'Design mode sample data size' in the 'Worksheet Options' dialog box. • To retrieve only the rows of a table matching some specified criteria, set a filtering condition on the table. • To retrieve only the rows of a table that have some specified relationship to the data of another table, create a joined table...

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Displaying the Dashboard Page in a Dashboard Portal - To display the dashboard page in a dashboard portal, use this code: {servlet URL}?op=portal_dashboard e.g., http://localhost:8080/sree/Reports?op=portal_dashboard. Displaying the Dashboard Configuration Page {servlet URL}?op=dashboard_configuration e.g., http://localhost:8080/sree/Reports?op=dashboard_configuration Displaying an Adhoc Report Wizard {servlet URL}?op=adhocwizard&action=frame&wizard={Wizard Name} e.g., http://localhost:8080/sree/Reports?op=adhocwizard&action=frame&wizard=Table+Wizard Displaying the Scheduler Task Page {servlet URL}?op=scheduler_tasks e.g., http://localhost:8080/sree/Reports?op=scheduler_tasks Pinging the Report Server {servlet URL}?op=ping e.g., http://localhost:8080/sree/Reports?op=ping...

Distribution Channel Dashboard Example - As you can see above, dashboards are powerful tools for doing just that. The sample dashboard provided tracks many key performance indicators in a highly visual and digestible manner. First, revenue by shipping country is displayed. The small and colorful graph is deceptively simple. It gives information on where goods are shipped, an approximation of how much it costs ship them, what region they are shipped to, and an approximation of how much money is earned from each shipping country. Similarly the bar graph below provides at-a-glance information about revenue, shipping countries, and delivery times. The heat map to the right of the two bar graphs, emphasizes at a glance the important information of where sales are weakest and where they are strongest. Continuing on, the last two graphs gives the user of this dashboard information about who is buying and how sales are performing...

Do Date Comparisons in a Dashboard - Charts and Crosstabs provide an easy way to compare data across different date ranges. For example: Compare this quarter's sales to the previous two quarters Compare this January's sales to each of the past five January's sales Compare each day last week to each day this week, showing percent change To perform such date comparisons in a Chart or Crosstab, follow the steps below. NOTE: The Chart or Crosstab must contain a Date-type field. Date comparisons use color to distinguish date groups unless the original chart already uses color; in this case, the axis is used to distinguish date groups. 1. Press the 'More' button in the top corner of Chart or Crosstab, and select 'Date Comparison'...

Does Tableau Support Real-time? - Yes, Tableau does. So does InetSoft. InetSoft has an additional option for scheduling updates for near-real-time if there is a concern of taxing the operational database or if transport costs are high...

Download Dashboard Designer - InetSoft’s unique and powerful dashboard designer software is easy-to-use and easily deployable. Make sure to download a free version to find out yourself. Are you looking to download a dashboard designer that's interactive and user-friendly that allows you to easily visualize, explore, and monitor your organization's data? InetSoft offers an all-in-one business intelligence product, called Style Intelligence™ that allows users to create and design dashboards, high-definition visuals, and comprehensive reports. As an innovator in reporting software since 1996, InetSoft has pioneered the evolution from static reporting towards interactive visualization of data via dashboards. InetSoft's award-winning software has been deployed at thousands of organizations worldwide and integrated into dozens of other application providers' solutions serving vertical and horizontal markets of their own...�

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