e-dashboards - Executive & Enterprise Dashboards

Background

Executive & Enterprise dashboards are today becoming more acceptable in business, governments and non-profits. However, there is still a need to provide clarity regarding purpose of dashboards and the way they can support your Operational, Tactical and Strategic efforts.

Dashboards based on Deployment
	Executive Dashboards
	Executive dashboards are for local deployment on user machines for a specific requirement e.g. Financials and installed on user machines.

	Enterprise Dashboards
	Enterprise dashboards are combination of multiple applications e.g. Finance, Marketing, Logistics and hosted on Corporate portals for large-scale deployment.

Type of dashboards

Different types of dashboards are address specific requirements

	Strategic
	Tactical
	Operational

Reasons for Using Dashboards

Dashboards help enterprises remain competitive by retaining and their growing customer base. They are specially important when:

	Time to market is important
	Gain instant insight into enterprise performance

Ability to keep costs under control

In these recession-driven times keeping costs under control is a key executive responsibility

	Know costs are under track at all times
	Dashboards provides insight to key cost insight

Accelerating business process improvements

Business processes maturity and re-engineering is supported by a specific dashboards

	Dashboards and scorecards offer fast time-to-value and low entry price
	Quickest way to improve bottom line

Regulation and Compliance

Today enterprises are surrounded by multiple regulatory and legal requirements.
It helps them:

	Maintain transparency to business
	Accountability

Dashboards - Business Needs

A well-designed dashboards should fulfill business needs in following dimension:

	High-impact interactive visualization of key metrics
	Intuitive user interface and navigation
	Drill for root-cause analysis
	Manage by exception
	Personalized content and display

Dashboards - Technology Needs

Technically a dashboarding development and deployment environment should fulfill following technology needs:

	Easy dashboard building capabilities
	Flexibility as the needs of an organization change
	Scalable for a growing organization
	Security to ensure proper user access
	Integration to leverage existing BI investments