Dashboards, Reporting & Business Intelligence

In his blog, James Taylor, highlights some interesting points in response to this article.

“The idea that dashboards are the endgame for BI is frankly terrifying. Have you see the typical dashboard? To misquote Shakespeare, “Much color and expense, signifying nothing”. Seriously, dashboards may be a step up from greenbar reports but the endgame? I don’t think so.”

In my opinion, Dashboards are certainly not the end game. Just a window to your Business information. I think dashboards for Business are important the same way they are for Cars. In Cars, you don’t even get excited with all the meters and dials anymore, you just assume them to be there. Once dashboards for Business becomes ubiquous, people would get less excited about the fancy charts and graphs.

This kind of ubiquity certainly cannot be achieved by pricey and complex software. Dashboards are a step above traditional reporting because Dashboards are one of the most simple UI and users immediately “GET” them. They immediately know the parameters, drills and export options.

We just did an official PR on the new version of Discoverer Dashboard. Here is the link
What do users say about this tool?
“Coming into an environment where it’s your responsibility to perform data analysis on thousands of Discoverer reports can be a very daunting task. Trying to identify who owns the reports, how many reports each business unit owns, or more importantly what dependencies are required by each report would take countless hours of analysis. After searching on the web for a product that would aid in my task, I was advised by users of the Oracle Technical Network Forums to try InfoCaptor.

After installing the trial version of the product and reviewing some of its capabilities, I instantly knew my corporation couldn’t do without this tool. Dealing with RudraSoft LLC in answering technical questions or providing extra information vital to my analysis has been very refreshing. It’s very rare in today’s technology market you receive true professional service. If you are in need of a tool that with delivering fast metadata on the Discoverer reports in your environment while saving countless person hours, InfoCaptor is definitely the product of choice”

That’s all for this year, Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays