Business Dashboards: A Visual Catalog for Design and Deployment

By Claire Y. Chen, Nils H. Rasmussen, Manish Bansal

Book Overview

Focusing on designing the right dashboards for use in an organization, this timely, full color book reveals how to successfully deploy dashboards by building the optimal software architecture and dashboard design. In addition, it describes the value of this popular technology to a business and how it can have a significant impact on performance improvement. A unique collection of more than 120 dashboard images are organized by category. One of the chapters provides a step-by-step description of the key performance indicator (KPIs) design process. One of the appendices contains more than 1,000 examples of KPIs to help design the content of dashboards. The book also describes all the steps in a dashboard implementation and offers related advice.

Nils Rasmussen (West Hollywood, CA) is cofounder and Principal of Solver, Inc. Claire Y. Chen (Long Beach, CA) is a Senior Business Intelligence Architect at Solver, Inc. Manish Bansal (Irvine, CA) is Vice President of Sales at Solver, Inc.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0470413476
• ISBN13: 9780470413470
• Release Date: March 2009
• Publisher: Wiley
• Length: 304 Pages
• Weight: 1.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.9" x 9.8"

Customer Reviews

Complete coverage of Dashboards

This book gave me what I needed to prepare for my first dashboard project. Good background in the ETL and back-end technologies required, good coverage of best practices for KPI design, and the 100+ full color dashboard examples gave me many ideas for my own dashboards. There were also some useful tips from the "Dashboard Project Management" sections that I used.

Must have BI reference

This book succinctly explains correct BI and dashboard design, then provides a comprehensive blueprint to design and produce a BI enabled information management system. I am currently using it to integrate BI into my current projects and to educate my principles. It is like having access to an experienced BI consultant.

Excellent, great and varied dashboards exemples

Easy to read and understand for a non expert. The section on creating the right BI architecture for dashboards helped me understand the underlying data architecture needed to successfully deploy dashboards. Very helpful. I would highly recommend this book!

Amazing

I thought I new pretty much there is to know about B.I. and Dashboard technology. Then I read this book. Wow, after 30 years in the industry I learned a bunch of new things about Dashboarding techniques and B.I. in general. This book has it all. Great for beginners in the Business Intelligence world as well as seasoned veterans. I recommend this book to all levels of professionals, from the `What is B.I.?' executive, to the `How can I improve my B.I. experience for my users' Data Warehousing professional. Gary Sparr Systems Services Manager American Suzuki Motor Corp.

The new face of Bi.

An explanation and demonstration of strength of Dashboards. The authors have written about the multiple forms of dashboards and there use in functional organizations.