Status Dashboard

Digital dashboard projects are known to be involving different business units to take the driver’s role and the information technology department — the enabler’s one. The success of digital dashboard projects is known to be depending on the metrics that should be carefully chosen for completing such process as monitoring. The appropriate content on the business dashboards may include key performance indicators, sales performance figures and balanced scorecards.

Digital dashboard technology is available from many software providers and some of the companies continue doing the so-called “in-house development” as well as the maintenance of the dashboard applications. A good design of a dashboard may influence on many aspects of business activity after, once it is created. Thus, the clear key information should be offered to the users making the supporting information both easily accessible and easily understandable.

There are four key elements to a good dashboard which include simple and easy way of communication, minimum distractions so the dashboard does not cause any confusion, support from the organized business having both useful data and the meaning clear to understand and the fact that any dashboard should apply human visual perception to visual presentation of information making it obvious that the data is represented in the right way.

Dashboards are what the series of charts, gauges, graphics and other visual indicators can be called. They all can be monitored any time when it is needed as well as interpreted taking into consideration the reason they were created for. Dashboards can be also customized the special way so it becomes possible to link their charts and graphs to the needed strategic objectives.

The Status Dashboards solution extends the functionality of the ConceptDraw DIAGRAM product offering the pre-made stencils as well as the examples and templates of the status dashboards which all can be edited when it becomes necessary in order to make the unique drawings. The graphic Status Indicators (e.g., Alerts, Progress & Rating Indicators and Traffic Lights) are the ones that can be always used by any ConceptDraw DIAGRAM user once taken from the mentioned solution.