How to Make Business Intelligence Dashboard

The purpose of making visual business dashboards is to help professionals make more informed decisions in business. Displaying business intelligence data in dashboard delivers your team the at-a-glance look on how things are going.

The effective business dashboard provides vivid, real-time visibility of business process to your team enabling you to collect and analyze information on the most important and business-driving data. Using dashboard you can easily make a comparison between different process states and make the most rational decision on further changes.

ConceptDraw DIAGRAM allows you can easily create a visual dashboard using Live Objects. The advantage of Live Objects technology is that a live object can be easily connected to a data source to visualize the actual values of any performance metrics. ConceptDraw Business Intelligence Dashboard solution contains a rich library of live charts and indicators.

1. Run ConceptDraw DIAGRAM.
2. Reveal the Business Intelligence solution in the solutions panel. Open any dashboard library, for example the BI charts.
3. Add your first Live Object to the dashboard by dragging it from the library to a blank page.

4. Open data source XLSX file to assign a data source to your live object. Use the Solutions panel to find out the data source file of the particular object.
 
5. Edit the Data Source text file according to your particular data and save it using the Save as option.

6. Further data changes must be done using Action menu of the Live Object. Click the icon in the upper right corner of the object. Choose Select Data Source and select your saved data source file.

7. The Live Object has changed its appearance because now it shows the actual data from your source file.

Result: Now your visual dashboard shows the actual data from your data source files. The Live Objects will refresh the data every 5 seconds. So as the data updates in one of the data source files, the corresponding Live Object on your dashboard shows the new data within the next 5 seconds.