KPI Dashboard - collect & visualize business performance indicators

Product overview

KPI Dashboard is a controlling software package with elements of a Business Intelligence tool designed for automatic gathering and visual presentation of Key Performance Indicators (KPI) for increasing business efficiency and profitability.

Features

KPI Dashboard: indicator summary view
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KPI visualization

  • Rich KPI visualization capabilities via a wide range of diagrams and analyses (e.g. pie charts, bars, tables, areas, 3D and more).
  • Interactive drill-down of visualized data.
  • Automatic calculation of trends and projections.
  • Threshold values per each indicator.
  • User-defined KPI categories (e.g. CEO, CFO, R&D and others) with per-user access permissions.
  • Control point map visualizing where the KPI measurements take place.
  • Panel mode for full-screen, periodic display of KPI charts on Digital Media Systems (DMS).
  • Miniature (thumbnail) previews of all KPIs.

Data collection

  • Indicator configuration according to the needs, requirements and expectations of each particular business.
  • Built-in data warehouse and data collection ETL (Extract, Transform, Load) engine - an instrument that integrates data from various data sources such as databases, spreadsheets, text files, web services and others.
  • Prepackaged KPI collection modules for various popular software packages such as SugarCRM or JIRA.
  • Multidimensional Expressions (MDX) query language for access to built-in or external data warehouses.

Technology and system requirements

The KPI Dashboard has been implemented as a three-tier Java Enterprise application using Adobe Rich Internet technology as the front end.

Operating environment

KPI Dashboard has been tested in both open source and commercial application server environments including 32 and 64 bit versions of the following servers running on Windows XP, Vista, 7, RedHat Linux, CentOS, SuSE Linux, Sun Solaris and IBM AIX:

  • Open source: Apache Tomcat and JBOSS.
  • Commercial: IBM WebSphere, Oracle and Sun.

Please check with us for information about support for other, less popular operating environments.

Databases

KPI Dashboard can use one of the following databases for storing the configuration data (KPI definitions, user accoutns, etc.):

  • Open source: MySQL.
  • Commercial: Oracle, IBM DB2 and Microsoft SQL Server.

Please check with us for support for other, less popular systems.

Data warehouses

In order to store KPI data (e.g. facts, dimensions), the KPI Dashboard can use one of the following databases (either directly utilizing data warehouse capabilities, or via SQL emulation):

  • Open source: MySQL.
  • Commercial: Oracle, IBM DB2 and Microsoft SQL Server.

Please check with us for support for other, less popular systems.

Data sources

KPI Dashboard can collect data into the data warehouse from a variety of sources including:

  • Relational databases (JDBC-enabled) including Oracle, MySQL, Microsoft SQL Server, DB2, Informix, PostgreSQL and others.
  • Files: Excel, CSV, XML, Microsoft Access, text files.
  • User defined as a combination of file and scripts.

Please check with us for support of your particular requirements.

Client side/Digital media

KPI Dashboard runs on any web browser supporting Adobe Flash technology version 9 or higher including Internet Explorer, Firefox, Google Chrome, Opera, Safari and others.

KPI Dashboard is compatible with Adobe Flash-aware DMS systems such as Cisco Digital Media Suite.

Documents and brochures

KPI Dashboard - data sheet
On-line help files

Please contact our consultant for more information 

Business benefits

Business benefits

KPI Dashboard: indicator detail view
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  • Rich graphical presentation of specified indicators giving clear and up-to-date image of business condition.
  • Efficient decision making based on Key Performance Indicators resulting in increasing business productivity.
  • Single point of access to all KPIs and enterprise information to ensure clear image of business conditions.
  • Access to all indicators in real-time to enable quick reaction to any changes in dynamic business environment.
  • Reduction of routine reporting costs via a fully automated data gathering process.

Demos and screens

Demo systems

Please follow the links below in order to login to demo systems on the Internet. Please contact our consultant, to obtain your login and password.

Screenshots

KPI Dashboard: indicator summary view
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KPI Dashboard: indicator detail view
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KPI Dashboard: map indicator
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KPI Dashboard: indicator configuration view
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Documents and brochures

Documents and brochures

KPI Dashboard - data sheet
On-line help files

Whitepapers

Controlling Informational Chaos. A Closer Look at Business Intelligence Systems

On-line presentation

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