What is a dashboard?
A Dashboard is a tool for information management and business intelligence. Various dashboards organize, store, and display important information from multiple data sources in a single, easily accessible location. Using data visualization, dashboards show metrics in a simplified but clear and visual way to help users understand complex relationships in their data. In a dataDashboard it's easier to draw parallels between different but related metrics, identify trends, and spot potential challenges in a company's data. With the help of smartphones, tablets and other mobile technologies, dashboards are also used to deliver relevant information to audiences without lengthy preparation. The most functional dashboards can be customized, secured and shared with their respective end users.
What is a business dashboard?
In a sense, virtually any technology used by a company falls Dashboard into this category. The term "business Dashboard" refers in particular to reporting tools that fulfill these purposes:
- Tracking key business metrics
- Monitoring of business intelligence initiatives
- Reporting to stakeholders
An effective businessDashboard should focus on top-level data that relates to the overall success of the business. In most cases, each key performance indicator should be included in the Dashboard be related to the company's most important metric: the bottom line. However, the goal of a business dashboard is not only to communicate data about business success, but also to facilitate understanding of advertising direction between departments, hold each team accountable for its goals and progress, and help users identify areas that require immediate action.
Other types of dashboards:
- Business Dashboard
- Executive Dashboard
- KPI Dashboard
- Project-Dashboard
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