NetCharts Performance Dashboards Product Brochure
Breaking the Data Barrier with Self-Service Business Intelligence
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- Ron Powell, BeyeNETWORK Cofounder and Editorial Director
"Aberdeen's recent research on dashboards found that 43% of organizations were implementing dashboards simply to get visibility into key business processes. Visual Mining provides a clean, simple dashboard solution that can help achieve that."
- David White, Sr. Research Analyst, Business Intelligence, Aberdeen Group
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"NetCharts Performance Dashboards provides a beautiful visualization front end to sophisticated data analysis capabilities that will help users get actionable use out of their data. This product is very intuitive to use and decreases user reliance on IT by extending what the users can do on their own."
- Claudia Imhoff, President, Intelligent Solutions
"Visual Mining's NetCharts Performance Dashboards emphasizes ease of use and flexibility for the end user. The graphics are visually appealing and its four-step process for accessing data and creating dashboards is intuitive. Targeted at mid-market organizations, it's an impressive and cost effective product that any company should look at in this economy."
- Wayne Eckerson, Director, TDWI Research
NetCharts Performance Dashboards Features
Visual Mining Multiple Data Source Support
Visual Mining NetCharts Performance Dashboards allows users to configure access to multiple sources simultaneously for data visualization. An interactive dashboard can be created that contains multiple key performance indicators, each with data drawn from a separate data source; data from CRM, finance, and inventory systems that provide a complete picture of your business operations.
Key Performance Indicators Analytics
Visual Mining NetCharts Performance Dashboards allows users to quickly create comparative key performance indicators, meaning they present multiple views of the same metric in a single graphic element. For example, users can create key performance indicators that display the value of a metric in two different time frames, for two different regions, or between one region and the average of all regions. Comparative KPIs can also present multiple metrics in the same dimension-for example, two cost metrics and three revenue metrics by month in a single chart.
Personalized Dashboard Templates
With a rich selection of pre-defined, pre-built color palettes and personalized dashboard templates, users can easily and quickly create 'attention-getting', stunning interactive dashboards.
Interactive Dashboard Configuration Wizards
NetCharts Performance Dashboards provides graphical tools that guide users through the initial data visualization configuration process. A rich Web 2.0 interface allows users to connect to a corporate database, select tables of interest, and define the metrics that are of specific interest.
Customizable, Context Sensitive "Chart View" Drill-Down
NetCharts Performance Dashboards graphical key performance indicator provide drill-down, allowing users to click on elements of a chart or table to present a detailed display of records that comprise a particular segment of data. Context-sensitive drill-down data visualizations can be customized to include user-selectable data field details.
Create Multiple NetCharts Performance Dashboards
NetCharts Performance Dashboards allows users to create and populate a virtually unlimited number of personalized dashboards. Users can create, edit, and delete dashboards on the fly, thus adapting to business needs. Each interactive dashboard can contain multiple key performance indicator and can be configured in a variety of page layouts. The dashboards can be grouped into a folder hierarchy for easy navigation.
Intuitive Dashboard Reporting Software with Table Controls
When viewing data in within dashboard reporting software, NetCharts Performance Dashboards provides powerful, intuitive capabilities such as the ability to sort, change or format columns and rows with a single click. NetCharts Performance Dashboards also immediately and intuitively pivots multidimensional tables with a simple drag and drop. Plus, user-defined, row level alerts are available for quick notification of 'hot spots.' Users can also do in-place data calculations without leaving the dashboard reporting software.
Intuitive, Interactive Reporting with "Excel-like" Table Controls
When viewing data in a table for reporting, NCPD provides powerful, intuitive capabilities such as the ability to sort, change or format columns and rows with a single click. NCPD also immediately, and intuitively pivots multidimensional tables with a simple drag and drop. Plus, user-defined, row level alerts are available for quick notification of “hot spots.” Users can also do in-place data calcuations without leaving the dashboard.
Page Controls
NetCharts Performance Dashboards page controls allow for the detailed investigation of data visualizations. NetCharts Performance Dashboards page menus place data filters in a dashboard that controls all key performance indicator. Change a date range or select a subset of records on a page menu, and all KPIs on the page automatically update.
Track Performance with Business Intelligence Software
NetCharts Performance Dashboards enables the creation, tracking, and management of goal values for key performance indicator. Compare performance on any metric against a goal. Create color-coded scorecards and dial gauges that display progress against business objectives. With Visual Mining's business intelligence software, manage separate goals for different metrics or time frames.
Advanced Interactivity and Personalized Dashboards
NetCharts Performance Dashboards allows users to effectively explore their data visualizations with a set of controls, including:
- Preferences Panel
A preferences panel slides open to allow users to change almost any characteristic of a KPI. Users can change filters to constrain the data in different ways, restrict the KPI data to only the 20 most significant records, or change the style of the visualization. - Advanced Chart Interactivity
Mouse over highlighting and interactive legends provide end-users with greater visibility and clarity. - Export to Excel
Users can export the data in a KPI to a desktop Excel file. - Maximize
Users can temporarily maximize one KPI from a dashboard, expanding it to full screen. - Minimize
Users can temporarily minimize individual KPIs on a dashboard, leaving more screen real estate for others. - Access Control
NCPD Server Edition is integrated with Microsoft Active Directory for access control. User access can also be configured and managed using an NCPD internal XML file-based access control system. - Data Category-Level Security
NCPD offers access control for individual data categories. An NCPD administrator can identify users and groups of users that are allowed access to a particular KPI collection. Users without such access will not be able to create dashboards that contain those KPIs. - Community Pages
Users can publish pages for other licensed users to view. Shared dashboards can be copied or cloned, allowing users to personalize an instance of community dashboards. - Role-Based System Privileges
Users can be assigned specific privileges within the system. Privileges include:- Adding and deleting users
- Managing and configuring data access
- Adding new KPI collections
- Publishing community pages
- Creating new dashboard pages
- Annotations
NCPD supports adding text, comments, and/or annotations to a dashboard. Users can add multiple annotations to a dashboard and use them to add narrative to the overall dashboard or to individual KPIs. - Content Types
A variety of content types are available from NCPD KPI collections, including ad hoc content that is not necessarily derived from a directly supported data source. This freestyle content may be text, images, charts, or data tables. This allows users to tailor the message of a dashboard by adding a variety of different content types from virtually any source. - Printable/Distributable Dashboards
An image of an NCPD Dashboard can be exported for print, e-mail, or historical archival.
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