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LEARN BEST PRACTICES FOR HIGH-IMPACT DASHBOARDS


Although SAP BusinessObjects Dashboards are simple to master, there are tricks and tips that will help you get fast, reliable answers to a broader range of business questions than perhaps you've considered possible.

Watch our videos featuring three dashboard master practitioners and discover the secrets to successfully building and deploying interactive visualisations to help your business adopt a culture of information-based decision making.


VIDEO 1 - FINANCIAL SERVICES DASHBOARDS BEST PRACTICE

Andy Hirst, Senior Director, considers the business advantages of using interactive visualisations to monitor and manage key financial services metrics and shows how to balance the simplicity of intuitive graphical information with in-depth drill-down capabilities to yield the most meaningful results.

Dean Farrow, Principal Solution Consultant, test drives some typical financial services dashboards and reveals how, with little or no training, any business decision maker can harness the power of these interactive visualisations via everyday productivity tools such as Microsoft PowerPoint, Outlook or Adobe PDFs.



Pushed for time? Watch this video in four bite-sized chunks

Why dashboards are required?

Discover the business advantages of using interactive visualisations to monitor and manage key metrics with substantially less effort, and learn why flexibility, scalability and integration with your existing BI environment are critical success factors when deploying enterprise dashboards.

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Key requirements and characteristics of dashboards

Get an overview of dashboard functionality and find out how to balance the simplicity of intuitive graphical information with in-depth drill-down capabilities to yield the most meaningful results.




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The five steps to creating dashboards

We examine the dashboard building process in more detail, define the information hierarchy and walk you through various layouts and scenarios for insurance, commercial and retail banking, risk management and Human Resources.




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Demonstration of Financial Services Dashboards

Watch demonstrations of financial services dashboards in action and see how any business decision maker can harness the power of these interactive visualisations via everyday productivity tools such as Microsoft PowerPoint and Outlook or Adobe PDFs with little or no end user training.


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VIDEO 2 - DASHBOARDING AND QUANTITATIVE DATA VISUALISATION

Watch Varik Torsteinsen, Principal Sales Consultant, and keen blogger on best practice in visual presentation media for business intelligence, as he uncovers some often overlooked approaches to designing dashboards that really deliver on their potential by focusing on a fundamental goal – communication.

This insight will furnish you with practical, hands-on guidance on identifying areas for improvement and avoiding some of the pitfalls of dubious dashboard design!

Video 1 - Financial Services dashboards best practice

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Video 2 - Dashboarding and Quantitative Data Visualisation