Eye-Candy

April 29, 2008

Presenting the data you gather from different sources inside your company must be presented correctly to HQ. You make the report and send it. After you have worked many many nights in gathering the exact correct results needed to make the most important decision in the company you see that your data wasn’t used and the opposite decision was taken.

When this happens you have to turn your eye on an important factor. The PR of your BI department. You are making the reports, they are all correct but are they catchy? Do the reports you make attract the attention of the extra-busy persons in HQ? If the answer is no you have to turn your attention into some solutions that can help you present the data in a way that can’t escape the eye of your client.

One of the easiest way of adding extra glamor to your reports is by adding flex/flash dashboards. You can find some examples in here:

http://examples.adobe.com/flex2/inproduct/sdk/dashboard/dashboard.html

http://www.enterprise-dashboard.com/2008/04/11/the-uber-art-of-dashboards/

Making a dashboard for your clients helps you present the data easily and adds in the fun factor. Your clients can discover them selfs the true meaning of the data thus giving you extra time to enhance the quality of your products.

One that tries to add extra beauty to his reports must always keep in mind that what really counts is the quality of the data and that after a while the magic will be gone, the clients will get bored by the new looks and ask for more;)

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