Business Development Metrics

The Federal Reserve Bank of Boston, aka the “Boston Fed”, is one of the 12 regional Federal Reserve Banks that make up the central banking system of the United States. Headquartered in Boston, Massachusetts, the Boston Fed serves the First Reserve District (a grouping of 6 New England states). Enough of playing tour guide - what does the [...]SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "Flex Dashboard at the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston", url: "http://www.enterprise-dashboard.com/2008/06/16/flex-dashboard-boston-fed/" });

In a recent Dashboards by Example post titled Dashboard Eye Candy, we poked fun at the usage of big honking dashboard gauges. Like them or not, however, they do indeed have their place on business intelligence applications. One of the example gauges used in the article came from the folks at Perpetuum Software, maker of .NET [...]SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "4 Principles for Dashboard Gauges", url: "http://www.enterprise-dashboard.com/2008/06/13/dashboard-gauge-principles/" });

Flash-powered dashboards continue to accelerate in their adoption. By the way, I use the term “Flash-based Dashboards” to include all swf-based dashboard technologies such as Adobe FLEX, Business Objects Crystal Xcelsius, etc - anything that requires Flash formats such as swf/flv. Flash technology has made big inroads in video media delivery and is building huge [...]SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "Flash Dashboard Example - Information Visualization about Oil Production", url: "http://www.enterprise-dashboard.com/2008/06/10/flash-data-visualization/" });

Flash-based dashboards provide great interaction between the user and the data. Technologies such as Xcelsius easily allow us dashboard designers to mix view (read only) modes with what-if analysis modes. In today’s dashboard example by Ryan Goodman of the Interactive Data Visualization Blog, we see this to great effect. I’ve always liked Xcelsius for dashboarding and the [...]SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "Xcelsius 2008 Dashboard - Gas Price Data", url: "http://www.enterprise-dashboard.com/2008/07/01/xcelsius-2008-dashboard-gas-price-data/" });

Several readers of Dashboards By Example have reminded me that the objective of the blog, as the name suggests, is to show actual examples of dashboards. It’s nice to see the cutting edge visualizations and hear about the theories behind software usability, but they want to see more real business dashboards from the trenches. [...]SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "Small Business Dashboards", url: "http://www.enterprise-dashboard.com/2008/06/30/small-business-dashboards/" });