BI Dashboard

The BI Dashboard: Up to the Challenge?

The business intelligence (BI) dashboard is intended to provide decision-makers with an overview of the health of business operations. It tracks key performance indicators and provides warnings, action alerts and next steps when areas of the business fail to meet pre-determined metrics.

But decision-makers in today's competitive environment aren't satisfied with merely seeing the data—they need to work with it. They need to ask questions, pose what-if scenarios, and get answers fast. And here the limitations of the BI dashboard are apparent.

While its use as a report generator is clear, in order to be truly effective the BI dashboard must be integrated with visual analytics to provide a single tool for rapid, insightful decision-making. Today, in enterprises the world over, decision-makers rely on Spotfire to provide this capability.

Spotfire Business Analytics Outperform the BI Dashboard

Spotfire provides decision-makers with a hands-on and visual environment where they can explore any data set interactively.

Like a BI dashboard, Spotfire visual analytics software provides a comprehensive view of the business. It aggregates data from multiple sources—financial, marketing, IT, CRM, market intelligence, and more—to present users with a wide view of the organization. But where a dashboard merely reports pre-defined operational metrics and BI data, Spotfire allows users to ask their own questions, actively query the data and see results immediately.

With Spotfire's information visualization tools, users can move from an aggregated view to minute detail, and can change the scope of the query instantly using sliders and check-boxes. Spotfire gives decision-makers much more than top line status reports which only monitor performance—they get a tool to find the unexpected relationships in their data, the patterns and trends not seen before, and the outliers that may hold the key to solving a problem or seizing an opportunity.

Leverage Investment in BI Dashboard and Other Technology

Spotfire software works well with BI dashboards, data mining software and other business intelligence tools, enhancing their value and delivering greater ROI on these investments. Easy to use and simple to customize for any business, Spotfire is used by thousands of users in a variety of disciplines. In the financial industry, Spotfire assists with security selection and portfolio management. Scientists rely on Spotfire for complex clinical data analysis, while semiconductor manufacturers employ Spotfire to solve systematic yield and inventory balance problems.

For more information about integrating Spotfire visual analytics into your BI dashboard, click here.

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