Make your Dashboard more Visually Explicit
It’s that time of year again – when you have a lead up to an event or festival like Christmas or Easter. You want to compare your sales performance (or manufacturing, production or any other KPIs) against the same period last year.
Why not spice it up by creating a visually explicit dashboard that you could display on a large screen in the telesales office, or the warehouse floor or the boardroom? Something that will tell you at a glance how you’re doing day by day.
I chose the Christmas theme in order to develop a methodology – but this could be applied or adapted to any theme and repeated again and again.
Here’s the end result – which is how it displays on a browser if you add “&embed=true” to the Diveport url and press F11 to go full screen. This Region is doing quite well as you can see at a glance – mostly green baubles which mean an increase on performance for the same month last year.
The usual view would be as below – and I’ve changed the quickview to another Region that’s not doing so well – 3 red baubles!!
Step-by-Step Guide
So I’ve created a step-by-step guide for a Diveport administrator to create a Christmas Sales dashboard – you can download it from here: Christmas Dashboard
I hope you enjoy making your dashboard – it’s a great excuse to be a bit more creative than usual and brighten up the office! Hopefully all the baubles will turn green for you!!
Happy Christmas!!
About Debbie Lonsdale
Debbie Lonsdale has been working with the Diver Solution as a BI Consultant at Dynamic Business Informatics since 2008. Her previous experience includes computer programming, analytical and technical roles, team management, account management, sales and marketing in a variety of market sectors, including the Travel Industry and Distribution. She combines this experience as an all round ICT professional in the BI sector.
