At the beginning of this document it was stated that a
digital dashboard is a tool that allows a user to quickly monitor and analyze the
performance of an organization or group. To this end, the best practices
(Target User, Correctly Identifying KPIs, Context, Layout and Clarity, etc)
have been formulated and written. Each practice has been carefully devised and
clarified over the years to ensure that a dashboard following the practices
will result in far more clarity than a dashboard that does not follow the
practices. Readers of the best practices often think them to be obvious, but a
quick look around at the numerous dashboards available on the internet shows
that very few follow any significant number of the outlined practices, and
almost none follow all of them.
The products offered by Dundas Software are all used for
data visualization and fall naturally within the realm of digital dashboards.
The .NET products, Dundas
Chart, Dundas
Gauge and Dundas
Map are all designed to be flexible and end-user friendly, as well as easy
to data-bind in order to make building a dashboard easy for a developer. Dundas
Software also offers the same products for Reporting Services,
and in addition, Dundas
Calendar, as well as currently investing in Share Point and Windows
Presentation Foundation for future products. With the wide array of platform
support and data visualization tools available from Dundas Software, any
dashboard can be built quickly and easily using a product that fits the
requirements of the user. These products, combined with the best practices
outlined in this document result in an efficient and useful dashboard every
time.
Article content copyright by Dundas Software, 2006.