BusinessObjects Dashboard Manager

Delivering Dashboards and Scorecards to the Enterprise

Dashboard Manager Maintaining visibility throughout an organization is no small task. And yet, it is vital for
allows customers to monitor ensuring that everyone in the organization have a consistent view of the business and can
critical metrics such as focus on the same goals. BusinessObjects™ Dashboard Manager, part of the Application
merchandise and inventory Foundation analytic framework, enables the deployment of powerful dashboards to provide
levels–including seasonal visibility, alignment, and insight across the enterprise. Via management dashboards,
flow. It also allows them to Dashboard Manager provides users at any level with visibility into the company’s
send alerts, for example performance.
when items are selling
faster than expected.
Dashboards are a proven tool used to align execution with strategic goals. Leveraging existing
This then enables managers
business intelligence (BI) infrastructure, dashboards are easy to build, use, and can provide
to take action much sooner
deeper analysis. Management dashboards allow organizations to adjust the metrics, the
than previously possible.
underlying analysis, and the business rules as business conditions change. Dashboard
Manager can help ensure that the entire enterprise monitors critical business areas using
advanced alerting and gives everyone a consistent up-to-date view even when things change.

Deploy dashboards across the organization to increase alignment.

Often organizations implement various management philosophies to support their enterprise

performance initiatives. With Dashboard Manager, organizations have the freedom to imple-
ment dashboards and scorecards to support any management philosophy. These dashboards
and scorecards can be easily modified to support hybrids and in-house initiatives.

Dashboard Manager makes it easy to deliver dashboards across the enterprise

by helping you to:

Align execution with strategy

Monitor business metrics

Manage enterprise performance

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Delivering Dashboards and Scorecards to the Enterprise

With Dashboard Manager, Align Execution with Strategy

customers can track and Management dashboards built using Dashboard Manager help organizations align day-
analyze business metrics in to-day operations with corporate strategies. They ensure a more effective operation and
order to improve customer
a more efficient organization by providing each level of the organization with a
relationships, cut costs, and
increase sales. It includes personalized view that reflects objectives and targets.
time-series analysis,
enabling managers to pin-
Deploy Management Dashboards and Scorecards
point trends and changes
over time and obtain “alerts” Dashboard Manager enables organizations to rapidly deploy management dashboards and
to help monitor, analyze, and scorecards that highlight critical business metrics and measure and analyze all business areas.
act on changing business Dashboards can be customized to meet the needs of the organization vertically and horizon-
data.
tally or centrally controlled for one common view.

Gain Broad Cross-Organizational Visibility

Lack of visibility into cross-organizational performance can result in poor decisions that
impact enterprise performance. Dashboard Manager provides cross-organizational
visibility by providing a single interface for key performance indicators (KPIs) that can be
easily shared with all stakeholders. When all parts of the organization are basing decisions
on the same information, the organization as a whole can become more efficient.

Dashboards provide visibility and alignment across the organization.

Adapt Analysis As Conditions Change

Corporate strategy, plans, and goals change as market conditions change. A dashboard
strategy must support easy and fast updates so that you have the necessary flexibility and
agility for reacting to changing business conditions. Dashboard Manager provides these
capabilities and has personalization so that you can update your view when necessary.
Monitor Business Metrics
Dashboard Manager can be used to monitor critical business metrics, thus enabling
users anywhere to track the status of the business via KPIs. Combining the monitoring
of large numbers of metrics with advanced proactive alerting improves management
effectiveness by focusing attention on issues that need addressing. This means decisions
can be made faster, saving organizations time and money.

Dashboards with integrated alerting aids tracking of large numbers of KPIs.

Get the Pulse of the Business

Staying on top as conditions change can be challenging. You need a way to see at a glance if
there are issues that require immediate attention. Business users need proactive notification
and at-a-glance display of KPIs. These indicators can be created by IT or selected by users to
ensure that the information is relevant to specific roles and job functions.

Track KPIs over Time to Identify Trends

Measuring and tracking business metrics over time can provide another important dimension
to understanding your key business questions. Dashboard Manager includes an integrated
metrics engine, which allows you to track and analyze business trends over time so you can
gain a better understanding of how your business is changing. Tracking performance over
time allows employees and managers to easily spot trends to gain a deeper understanding of
the most critical issues.

Use Advanced Rules and Alerts for Management by Exception

Often, there are more KPIs than can be easily displayed or tracked—even in a dashboard.
In fact, sometimes there are hundreds if not thousands of metrics that in some way affect
the business. Dashboard Manager has an integrated rules engine to proactively monitor large
numbers of metrics and an advanced alerting mechanism to ensure that anomalies in behavior
are identified and escalated for appropriate action. Alerts that can be defined by each
individual user can also be sent to a dashboard or email address to ensure that the user
receives the information when they need it.
 BusinessObjects Dashboard Manager

Delivering Dashboards and Scorecards to the Enterprise

System Requirements Manage Enterprise Performance

The focus on managing enterprise performance isn’t new, but in today’s economy organiza-
 Client:
tions are looking for greater visibility, deeper insight, and access to more detailed analysis to
Java-enabled browser.
enable better decision-making. Enterprise performance management is the alignment of BI,
 Server: metrics, and methodology to optimize and improve business results. Dashboard Manager is a
Windows NT or 2000
step toward a complete enterprise performance management strategy, as it helps manage KPIs
Server, Sun Solaris.
and metrics across the business while leveraging existing investments in BI.
BusinessObjects
WebIntelligence.®
Guided Analysis from Interactive Metrics to Detailed Analysis
Development:
Seeing that there is a business problem is not enough; users must be able to move from
256MB RAM, 200MB
metrics presentation to detailed analysis while remaining in the same interface. Guided
free hard disk space.
analysis quickly directs the user to the root cause of the problem and leverages powerful
Minimum deployment: analytic engines and industry-leading query, reporting, and analysis technology. Dashboard
512MB RAM, 200MB
Manager guides users to the next logical point of analysis, speeding time to resolution.
free hard disk space.

 HTTP Server:
Microsoft IIS, Netscape
Enterprise Server,
Apache.

 Application Server:
Tomcat, BEA WebLogic,
IBM WebSphere.

Implement dashboards to support any management methodology.

Understand Business Influencers

By integrating dashboards with powerful analytic functionality, users can more easily
understand the business drivers behind their KPIs. More sophisticated analysis drives the
deeper understanding of key issues the organization should focus on.
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Optimize Business Operations

Greater visibility, deeper insight, personalized KPI monitoring, and a consistent view of
business with analytic depth all drive better decision-making. By providing a single KPI
and metric interface backed up by proactive alerting and interactive analysis, users can make
better decisions faster. BusinessObjects Dashboard Manager helps you manage your organiza-
tion to provide maximum visibility and alignment for peak enterprise performance.

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