Dashboards Highlights

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Definition

• Dashboard is an information delivery capability where we can find the data much faster through strong visualization capabilities.
• Dashboard is a Visual display of the most important information needed to achieve one or more objectives; consolidated and arranged on a single screen so that the information can be monitored at a glance.
• Dashboard bridges the gap between data analysis and data presentation, converting spreadsheet tables into interactive dashboards.

Introduction

Powerful, yet simple, dynamic visualizations

• Turn Data into Information.
• Based on Excel data and formulas.
• Live XML and Web Service data.
• Interactive What-If Analysis.
• Drill-Down, Charts, Gauges, Dials.
• Export to Office, PDF, and HTML.
• Flash format – Easy to Embed.

Business Value

BI for casual users

• Engage users with through guided navigation.
• Tailored solutions.
• Easy to understand visualization.

Characteristics

• Visual and Functional.
• Highly Interactive.
• Flexible in deployment.
• Inspirational in design.
• Ease of design.
• To Remain Competitive.

Additional Features compared to Xcelsius 3.x

• Universes with in Dashboards designer through “Query Browser”.
• Universe Connectivity components “Query Prompt Selector” and “Query Refresh Button”.
• Query Prompt Selector: The Query Prompt Selector automatically handles prompt value selection behavior based on the metadata for the query prompt.
• Query Refresh Button: A button that allows users to request a refresh of the query data from within the model at runtime.

Direct Semantic Layer Connection through “Query Panel”

• Improved authoring via query integration and direct access to semantic layer.
• Define a query by dragging and dropping relational universe objects, dimensions and measures.