Designed properly, a good business dashboard is an indispensable tool that informs with a glance. Unfortunately, too many dashboards are bloated, sluggish and ultimately too hard to use. A good dashboard solution should provide:
The ability to combine multiple data sources
Fast creation by a business user
Easy sharing with support for existing security
Visual analysis best practices
Interactivity: Filtering, highlighting, and other dashboard solutions
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When we took the first dashboard done in Tableau to the first meeting with the executives, some were so surprised that the reaction was mostly silence. One of the executives said, 'I always asked for that in the BI area and finally they managed to do it.'