Project Momentum is very important in predicting the outcome of your new project proposal.

• How soon can you show your new client
• What can you demonstrate
• What is your process
• How unique and innovative are you

Before the client approaches you for a quote and a POC they have definitely done some internal research and probably installed the basic setup. So why waste time in demonstrating the same packaged OBIEE stuff which your client has already done it by visiting various blogs and updates on the web.

What is so unique that you can demonstrate?

• Build some innovative dashboard design patterns

This is something that will catch your client’s attention among heaps of other consultant companies.

But producing them is time consuming with the toolset itself.

So why not just build some cool wireframes and prototypes and send your unique approach to your potential client?

This is so easy. Just login to https://www.wireframes.org and build your dashboard prototype, add some cool visualization, comments and demonstrate how different your dashboard can be.

For e.g OBIEE is fully web based and using jquery and various plugins it is possible to completely blow the minds of everyone when you demonstrate something so cool done in OBIEE which no one has ever dared to do it till now.

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?MockupTiger Personal Edition? is an excellent way of doing wireframes in the browser without the heavy baggage of server or database.

Our Enterprise edition comes with complete user management system and uses MySQL database to maintain all the information. It also needs a webserver to operate.

MockupTiger Personal Edition is an extremely innovative way of delivering the same experience without the need of a webserver and a database system.

How is that possible?

Here is what we did

• Modern browsers such as Chrome come with their own database system and one such system is called as “localstorage“
• We singled out all the needed database objects that are needed to create projects and mockups
• We redesigned the system using only localstorage
• We kept the User Interface as it is.
• So now the entire MockupTiger application is bundled into a single HTML file. No need of a webserver or database system.

What are the benefits?

• Tiny footprint
• Just visit the URL and keep using it.
• Disconnected from internet? No problem. The application does not need it anymore. It is all within your browser.
• Every mockup or wireframe that you can build using Enterprise Edition is possible in the personal Edition
• Export to JSON and PNG
• Just onetime payment

Get MockupTiger license Mockuptiger Personal Edition

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Enterprise Class Group and project management features are now available with a single click to the Dashboard.

Download MockupTiger Wireframes. It is the best time saving application you will download for prototyping

Mockuptiger allows you to create any number of groups. Each member of your team can create their own groups. Groups is like the “Circles” feature in Google plus.
Groups can represent full company, it can represent individual small teams, it can represent individual clients of a web design agency or a small department of a big company
. It is a simple and very powerful concept. This power is available when you use Mockuptiger to build your wireframes and prototypes.

Groups is a very powerful and simple concept. If you are a web agency then every client and members working for them is part of a small group. ?ClientA group? and ?ClientB group?.

If you are a big organization then each small team can be a group ?Web design group?, ?Software Development Group? and so on.

A group is like an umbrella, you can add users to the group and users can share their projects to the group. So now every member of the group can see all the projects in the group. Project access is tightly controlled through the dashboard.

Each user can create groups
Each user can add members to its own groups
Each user in the group can share their own projects to the group
Each user who shares their project can control the Editor and viewership of their own content
Every user in the group can atleast view each and every project in the group
Not every user can edit the projects and pages in the group

You can now share your documents to public by simply providing the link.
Clickable wireframes allows for unique presentation ways of mockups to your clients

http://www.mockuptiger.com/wireframe/mockups/mt.php?pa=dashboard_sample_4e5bbfcf3d57f

See, how easy it is!

But wait, sharing the URL does not mean you lose control over it. You need to make the document public through the dashboard. And yes, once public you can always revoke the public access.

Read more about Group and project management for wireframe and prototyping

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Read how MockupTiger fixed the font rendering issue. You will also notice that with the fix, it is now possible to add any of your favourite font for wireframes. Why just limit to Comic Sans or Arial. Try the Google web fonts for instance.

Build beautiful Dashboard prototypes with MockupTiger Wireframes

Goodbye Excel! now I can have true charting prototypes with Wireframes and mockups from MockupTiger

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Did you ever imagine that you can simply punch some data
and create beautiful dashboards?

Dashboards that are static in nature?

So what is a static Dashboard?

A dashboard where you build the charts first and then punch data inside the charts. Later when you have new updates, you come back and edit the data directly. You can use these kind of simple dashboards without any technical knowledge.

They are so easy to use, just drag the charts from the library and then update the data.

One such mechanism of creating static dashboard is discussed here using Mockuptiger.

Read more about Static Dashboards

Tiger can do both wireframes and mockups (tigger,tiggr,tigr)

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Mockups become increasingly efficient when you have the ability to group objects and it becomes super powerful when you can edit the groups without ungrouping the objects

MockupTiger now has the ability to Edit groups Editable Mockup Groups/Symbols

When you group objects, the position is maintained with the child objects. You can stretch and drag the group objects. The child objects will enlarge or shrink based on the action you perform on the group. How do you edit the text of individual child Once you define the group, it becomes cumbersome to ungroup just for changing the text. For e.g If we want to change the text on the comment bubble, we simple double click on the bubble comment The UI will detect the mouse click and transfer the edit operation to the respective child.

Read more about building How to edit wireframe mockup groups

Build instant wireframes with MockupTiger Wireframes. You can build sketchy paper/pencil mockup or normal appealing mockups

Use InfoCaptor Dashboard along with samples from Dashboards Examples

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• Do you send powerpoint slides that you currently use as dashboards?
• Do you send a bunch of Excel files that contain data extracts in one sheet and charts that derive from the raw data?
• Do you sketch the charts on a paper or drawing board?

You are probably thinking what is wrong with any of the approaches above?

Your company just purchased the latest and greatest dashboard software and now has hired a consulting firm or trained internal IT resources to build the dashboards that pull data right from the ERP/CRM/MRP or custom datawarehouses.

Let us go through each of the approach above

1. Powerpoint slides

In many organizations, Powerpoint slides are “THE Dashboards“. A dedicated user crunches the numbers every month and keeps updating the powerpoint slides day in and day out. The slides then ship out to a mailing list containing the CEO, CFO, CIO, managers, and all the executives that are suppose to view them.

Now would you send the same slides to a developer or the consultant who is suppose to build Dashboards using the latest dashboard software?

If yes, then answer these questions

• Isn’t your data seen by someone who is probably not suppose to have access to?
• Your powerpoint slides will greatly influence the final dashboard that is delivered which is bad most of the time as all the design flaws get propogated in your latest and greatest dashboard software. So how will you prevent that?

2. Excel sheets

I have seen this so many times. Users have bunch of excel spreadsheets that reference multitudes of various other files that are sitting in some fileshare directory. The user shows the main number crunching sheet that they are proud of and demonstrates how these numbers are derived and then referenced in a third sheet that draws the dashboard. Amazing, isn’t it? The user has done the hard work no doubt about it but again the same questions arise with respect to data security and “design flaw propogation“.

3. Draw doodles of dashboard charts and the layout on a paper or drawing board

• How will you send it to other people for review and revisions?
• Where is the data on the charts that you just sketched?

You might argue back saying, why need data? The point here is not give real data in your Dashboard mockups but there is no rule against providing realistic and familiar data. If you present some wireframes or chart mockups that does not resemble your organization names on it, people names as example then users are going to simply balk. And throughout the entire review the only thing going in their mind is “This data does not look right, this data is not right…”.

So what are my options?

There are lot of wireframing tools in the market that allow you to prototype software but none provided me to mockup dashboards. So I spent 2 years developing this MockupTiger Wireframes and here is a brief introduction that provides exclusive Dashboard wireframing options.

For e.g To create a Bar chart, you simply drag the chart from the library

This is the true beauty of Dashboard wireframes. There are no colors. Your bar chart appears just like a skeleton which is perfect like a doodle on a paper except little clean and neat.

Double click the bar chart and now you edit the values that control the individual bars.

As you change the Rows, columns and the data against each label, you will notice the bars go up and down when you press OK.

The editor does not hide after clicking ok as it allows you to iterate and refine your mockup. You can click on the X on the top-right to close it.

There are lot of charts in the library to choose from and you can even add colors to your final mockups

This is not it, the application has software prototyping library of widgets so you can create website wireframes as well as mobile application mockups.

The best part is the online version is absolutely free so you can register and start using in few seconds.

Go check out my Free Wireframe software (online)

So do you think this is a better approach for defining Business Intelligence requirements for Dashboards and Web applications?

Remember, a dashboard is also a web application so you will definitely need to include all the web design aesthetics and UI patterns when designing dashboards.

That is why MockupTiger allows you to build desktop, mobile, web and dashboard prototypes/wireframes/mockups.

You can also download and try it on your own PC.

Here is the Demo link

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MockupTiger when released had Clickable prototyping feature using the Text widgets

Now all the text widgets, icons can be linked. There is a new element called hotspot that you can overlay on any kind of object/widget to simulate Clicking or interactivity

Read more about building Clickable Prototypes using Mockups

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Editions included:
Google Apps, Google Apps for Business, Government and Education

Languages included:
All languages supported by Google Cloud Connect

How to access what’s new:
Go to the Cloud Connect menu in Microsoft Office and click ‘Open from Google Docs’. All documents that can be opened with the application you’re running will appear in a pop-up dialog.

http://googleenterprise.blogspot.com/2011/06/open-files-more-easily-in-google-cloud.html

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Gmail has emerged as the best free email alternative and all of my business emails are hosted on Google apps

Some of the new Gadgest you can try are listed here

http://gmailblog.blogspot.com/2011/06/10-gmail-gadgets-to-try.html

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Interest category marketing has been in beta for over a year, but Google announced today that this feature is now available to all AdWords advertisers. These categories allow advertisers to better target audiences across the display network based on their interests and demographics. You can choose from a list of categories that match the type of user you want to target, and Google will show ads to the people it thinks are interested in those categories.

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Scheduling ads
Turning on/off special ads for a promotional event
Turning on/off certain ads on a repeating basis (e.g., every weekend)
Turning on/off a special ad campaign for a promotional event
Pausing low-performing ads or keywords
Pausing low-performing keywords based on success metrics (e.g., high cost per conversion)
Pausing low-performing ads based on success metrics (e.g., low CTR)
Bids and bid scheduling
Adjusting bids for keywords based on cost per conversion
Changing bids to reach a desired average position
Raising bids to ensure ads show on the first page
Bid scheduling (e.g., a higher bid during certain hours of the day)
Controlling budgets and cost
Increasing budget for campaigns that convert well (using cost per conversion)
Budget scheduling (e.g., higher budget on certain days of the week)
Pausing campaigns that have spent a certain amount partway through the month
Pausing campaigns that have received a certain number of clicks partway through the day
General examples
Understanding how to make a rule work on one, several or all campaigns
Excluding keywords from a rule

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