New South Wales : The origination for the term dashboard is from automobile dashboard on several instrument clusters are fixed to help the driver to monitor all the major functions in a glance. Even in the world of cooperates there was a requirement for a tool that would help in monitoring activities in a glance and allowing the user to know about wrong and right and also the requirement of maintenance at business. Hence after years of experiments and analysis, the tool Business Dashboard was introduced which is basically an information management tool. It is used to track and keep record for KPIs (key performance indicators), several metrics and other data points particularly related to business, department or any specific process. Dashboards are also limited to give summaries, comparisons, exceptions and also key trends.

In today's era, the working environment has been much more advanced and user friendly hence business dashboard provides a complete support to an organised business with appropriated meanings and useful data. It is very much simple to use and could communicate easily suffering minimum distractions. Dashboards even use a data visualization concept which simplifies the complex data and present them in an organised format. This helps in creating a glance consciousness of current performance at any business. With such specifications it allows managers to grab the detailed information of business in less time and also make the day to day management easier for the business.

Data Visualisation of dashboard is one of its major features which is implemented by simple other common type of designs such as:-

Tables: - Tabular representation of data organised in form of rows and columns providing easier plotting from all the data.

Bar charts: - Bar charts are also known as bar graphs where several other categories of data are subjected to comparison with respect to one category (which is generally time, area, price, purchase, sales etc.)

Line charts: - It is much more visualised form of other designs where values are plotted with respect to time. The use of different symbols or colour helps in better comparisons in respect with particular time.

Gauges: - Every organisation has a set goal or objective hence these gauges help in demonstrating the progress made to achieve that objective.

Hence the design of business dashboard is advisable to be done by experts to be directly installed in a computer, to be used over internet across multiple devices or accessible on smart phones or tablets. It has to be defined as per the audience after identifying the key parameters and metrics. Dashboard should be effective to response over any immediate actions with help of prompts or alarms. Before installations it should be properly tested, evaluated and feedback should be collected. With the help of feedback, required improvements should be made and then allowed for the full fledged use for a business.

Some of the examples of commonly used Business Dashboard are executive dashboards, sales dashboards, and marketing dashboards and call centre dashboards. With proper planning and sufficient research each of the dashboards could be set up effectively and it would definitely add greater fun to business.

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