BENEFITS

Understanding business data can make the difference between information overload and information insight.

Dashboards – graphic presentations of business data – have a variety of benefits. Fortune 500 companies have been taking advantage of these benefits for years. Now they are available to small and mid-size businesses through the George S. May International Company and its partnership with iDashboards.

Dashboards are COMPUTER-BASED.

Today, most business information and statistics are kept in computers. Office and operations efficiency is greatly improved when this computerized information is available automatically and presented in eye-catching, easy-to-understand tables and charts.

Dashboards display KEY BUSINESS DATA.

Every business owner inherently knows some measures of success for his or her particular type of business. Often, however, business owners recall only partial information. Dashboards can be programmed to display all the relevant information and make it immediately available.

Dashboards show MULTIPLE KEY PERFORMANCE INDICATORS (KPIs)

A single computer screen can display several different tables, charts and status dials all at once. These provide at a single glance the status of the Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) the business has selected to track.

Dashboards are EASY TO UNDERSTAND.

Rows of numbers or a bar chart; which gives a quicker picture of statistics? The bar chart does, of course. In the same way, dashboards present information in easy-to-comprehend visual graphs. Dashboards are essentially pictures of your numbers. Seeing statistics presented as tables, charts and performance dials help the user immediately appreciate the numbers and their relationships.

Dashboards present CURRENT AND HISTORICAL DATA.

Not only do dashboards graphically present current status of business activities, dashboards also allow the user to “drill down.” They can provide equivalent data from the past day, week, year or whatever time periods the company has selected to record.

Dashboards are DYNAMIC.

The various dashboard graphic displays interact with one another. When a user passes the cursor or clicks on a specific area in one display, other displays automatically update with equivalent information.

Dashboards can be CUSTOMIZED.

Dashboard displays can be created to track virtually any type of data that a company or business can gather. Every industry has different measures of success. Even individual companies in the same category may have different performance indicators they wish to track and display.

Dashboards can be VIEWED ANYWHERE.

Because dashboards are computerized and Web-based, they may be accessed (with a personalized User ID and Password) from any computer, anywhere, that is connected to the Internet. This benefit is very valuable for owners and managers who frequently travel.

Dashboards can draw DATA FROM MULTIPLE DATABASES

Microsoft Excel and Intuit's QuickBooks software programs are two of the variety of databases that the Dashboards Program can use for information when generating various tables, graphs and performance dials.

Dashboards allow VARYING DEGREES OF INFORMATION ACCESS

Not everyone at a company requires the same information. Dashboard displays can be programmed to be available only to selected personnel. Also, only specified users have rights to enter and change data or the display of a Dashboard Program.

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