Building an Effective BI Dashboard

2010 | MIPRO

Building an Effective BI Dashboard

In our BI manifesto whitepaper, we discuss and outline how to effectively build a dashboard and avoid common mistakes.  Dashboards have a very specific use and should not be confused with reports; this in itself is a common conceptual mistake. The following are key elements of a well-designed dashboard: Dashboards should be designed to answer

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Linkology: The Best of the Internet for 7/9/2010

This week I perused the Internet in search of personal enlightenment.  Instead I got a lot of cat pictures and a bunch of stuff about this guy named LeBron James.  Plus these links, which I’m sure you’ll find as fulfilling as I did. 2010: The year Apple enters a new golden age. Novelist Nic Brown

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Business Intelligence and CPG/Retail

In a former life I led a national CPG (consumer packaged goods)/Retail practice focused on assisting clients with implementing their business intelligence (BI) solutions and helping them understand how to get the most value to their organizations from these systems. As with every industry vertical, there is some uniqueness to CPG/Retail market.  I am very

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Linkology: The Best of the Internet for 7/2/10

Chances are nobody is reading this post because they are on a beach or heading up north or in the backyard setting up a homemade slip-n-slide with baby shampoo (heard that on the radio this morning), so I’ll spare you the silly prefatory babble and get right to the links that you might be able

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Another Common Customization in PeopleSoft Benefits Administration

Today, we’ll get a even deeper into the PeopleSoft Benefits Administration guts. (Please see my previous post for the first dive.) As mentioned before, the delivered functionality of the PeopleSoft setup tables and the Benefits Administration process can’t handle every aspect of the new-hire processing requirements.  Another common issue is that not all employee benefits

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BI Sidebar: Master Data Management and Data Quality

We have discussed previously the importance of data quality to business intelligence. I’d like to go a bit deeper on that topic here in this post. It is plainly obvious that your business intelligence will only be as good as the quality of your data; this, in turn, means the quality of business answers derived

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