Performance Dashboards

The challenge for most organisations is having accurate, timely and reliable information to support decisions. Performance Dashboards meet this challenge.

Everyone who drives a car understands the importance of a dashboard. The dashboard in a car provides a simple and intuitive interface to the key information a driver needs. Under the hood, computer management systems provide intricate control of the engine.

Therefore, using a performance dashboard in a business provides a simple and intuitive interface to the key information a user needs. Just like in more sophisticated vehicle dashboards that provide drill down functionality, performance dashboards enable users to drill down to the information they need or respond to alerts.

A dashboard can give you that kind of information -

• in real time
• at a glance

An performance dashboard uses graphs and maps as a primary display device and is connected to databases and data files which are updated regularly to proivide business users with the latest information.

Many organisations have mades significant investments in business intelligence systems or implemented data warehouses solutions that simply have not delivered the value expected. Many organisations are yet to make an investment in business intelligence solutions, so can benefit from the advances in this area.

Dashboard technology has been available for many years, but with the advent of the web, performance dashboards can be delivered efficienttly across the organisation. Hence, as they can be available to everyone in the organisation we do not call them Executive Dashboards just as Executive Information Systems is an outdated description.

As Wave has significant experience across the business intelligence spectrum, it is well placed to help businesses with a performance dashboard inititiative to complement their existing investment in business intelligence or provide a leap in innovation.