Dashboards and Widgets Creation Guide - MicroStrategy

Dashboards and Widgets Creation Guide Designing Dynamic Enterprise Dashboards 2
Design ideas and examples
Additional design ideas can be found in Best practices for dashboarding,
page 40.
• Design a dashboard that monitors individual or group contributions to
overall business goals. Provide a gauge widget or thermometer widget so
users can measure their progress toward goals at a glance. For example,
use a widget to showcase some key metrics, such as average number of
transactions per customer, or average revenue per customer. For more
information on widgets, see Chapter 5, Providing Flash Analysis and
Interactivity: Widgets.
• Design a dashboard for regional sales managers at two levels: One level
shows an overview of sales in the region, and the other level contains grid
reports displaying details on each account representative’s individual
accounts. The following two images show samples of each of these levels
in a single dashboard. The first image shows the regional (or Territory)
overview level:
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