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The Dashboards Every Organization Needs
Organizations around the world are realizing that the need for the full spectrum of dashboards is present and creating challenges. In order to combat these challenges, a dashboard tool must be put in place that provides both IT-developed and Business-user-developed dashboards in an easy-to-use format that can grow with the organization. To be successful with dashboards, it is absolutely essential that both IT-developed and business-user-developed dashboards be provided to all levels of the business. MicroStrategy continues to lead the way and provide the best platform for all dashboard needs.
The Only Dashboard Platform You’ll Ever Need
Because MicroStrategy provides both styles of dashboards in a single platform, who creates your dashboard starting point doesn't matter. The path between them is easy.
Align the Organization
MicroStrategy enables the combining of dozens of reports into a single advanced dashboard giving everyone in an organization the same view of information. Operational workers use the same KPIs as executives leading to a single version of the truth across the enterprise. Best of all, advanced dashboards are easy to use because all workflows are embedded directly into the dashboard for high efficiency. Data transforms into immediate insight with MicroStrategy Report Services, the dashboard and enterprise reporting engine of the MicroStrategy Business Intelligence platform.
Polished and Personalized
With MicroStrategy advanced dashboards, users will receive the exact look desired with pixel perfect positioning and real time WYSIWYG design. Role-based views allow a single dashboard to be created for an entire line of business with data only seen based on a users permissions saving time and resources. Data is updated as often as is required and can be delivered in any format including email, web, or Flash.
High Scale and Performance
MicroStrategy advanced dashboards not only scale to huge data volumes, but also thousands of users simultaneously enabling better decision-making and alignment of the enterprise. Advanced dashboards continue to be easy to use at scale, with no training required and Microsoft-like controls making users comfortable from the beginning.
Empower Operational Workers
MicroStrategy IT-developed dashboard give decision makers all of the information they need in order to be successful. Operational workers use the same KPIs as executives leading to a single version of the truth across the enterprise. Best of all, IT-developed dashboards are easy to use because all workflows are embedded directly into the dashboard for high efficiency.
Replace Dense Reports
In the past, users would spend large amounts of time going through dozens of reports and doing calculations in order to get the answers they needed. MicroStrategy IT-developed dashboards enable those reports to be collapsed into a single dashboard, or DashboardApp with specific role-based views so one dashboard can be created for all users. IT-developed dashboards can also access data from many different sources ensuring all data that users want and need is available.
Embedded Analytical Workflows
Because MicroStrategy IT-developed dashboards can contain the same information of dozens of reports, all the data that users need is available and all of the operations and calculations are built in producing logical workflows. Regularly updated data ensures that the right answers to questions are always given and organization are able to succeed.
Build Your Own Dashboard Quickly
Using prebuilt templates for both web and mobile, business-users are able to create publishing-quality, highly visual dashboards quickly and effortlessly without the need for IT support. With MicroStrategy Visual Insight, users can create a dashboard in less than ten minutes and feature a wide range of compelling data visualizations.
Quickly Identify Trends and Outliers
MicroStrategy offers dozens of visualization to choose from, and with drag-and-drop functionality, changes can be made to the data until what is needed is found. Users can view data in multiple forms or visualizations and compare multiple visualizations on a single screen.
Access Any Data Set
MicroStrategy enables business users to quickly and easily analyze data in any format, size, or location. The Data Import functionality gives users the ability to import local data from Excel or other formats. Business users can analyze data sets ranging in size from kilobytes to petabytes in an integrated and easy to use platform.
Explore Data to Support a Hunch
When business-users develop their own dashboards, they are able to focus exactly on the data they want to see. Business-users can then easily identify outliers and problems that if left unchecked, could cause serious damage to the organization. Root cause analysis can be done quickly leading to greater efficiency and productivity.
Prototyping for IT-developed Dashboards
To help speed up the process of dashboard development, business-users are able to work within their own functional groups to provide IT dashboard prototypes. Business-users can iterate to solve all user needs and questions then provide to IT for polish and enterprise propagation.