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Business Reporting, Visual
Analytics & Dashboards (Part 1)
Week 5…
Business Reporting, Visual
Analytics & Dashboards (Part 1)
Week 5
Purpose
- to improve managerial decisions
Source
- data from inside and outside the organization (via ETL)
Function of a report
- To ensure proper departmental functioning
- To provide information
- To provide the results of an analysis
- To persuade others to act
- To create an organizational memory
Good Report Attributes
- Clarity
- Brevity
- Completeness
- Correctness
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Performance Dashboards
- commonly used in Business
Performance Management (BPM) suites and BI
platforms
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Types of Dashboards
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Strategic Purposes
Focus on high‐level measures of performance
- Forecasts
- Indicators of Performance
- Contextual Information
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Dashboard Components
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Alerts are used to draw attention to specific item that
has reached a pre‐defined limit (e.g. budgets or benchmarks, plan data, etc.)
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TYPES OF GRAPHS
Basic Charts and Graphs
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Bar Chart
Display multiple instances / measures rather than single instance/measure
Great for displaying measures associated with items in a category
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Line Chart
- Reveal shape of data, trends, fluctuations, cycles, rates of change
- Best for time‐series data
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SELECTOR COMPONENTS
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Combo Box: provides a vertical list of
items, when it is clicked, users can select an item from the list
Accordion Menu: provides a two‐level
menu, users first select a category and then select items within that particular
category
ORGANISERS
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THREE WAYS of organising and arranging information
- tables
- spatial maps
- small multiples
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