Want some easy-to-use online dashboard software? The next prize up for grabs is for you then – a one-year subscription to SiSense. This one will be especially useful for anyone who runs a business.
The deadline for this giveaway is Monday, March 2, 8pm EST.
Prize Description
A one-year subscription to a SiSense standard package – a $500 value – is up for grabs:
SiSense Prism is a powerful, user driven business intelligence tool that takes only a few hours to learn and implement. Our visual interface lets you effortlessly create analytics, reports, graphs and dashboards. Setting up Prism requires no IT support. SiSense offers non-technical users the ability to dashboard and analyze using common terminology and a drag and drop interface. We connect to different data sources and present them to the user in a unified way.
Using SiSense, you can connect to a data source and begin work immediately, relieving the need for IT to mediate between the business user and the data source. The results are easy to share with a workgroup or your superiors. Pricing ranges from a free version to tens of dollars per user month.
How to Enter
For a chance to win a one-year subscription to SiSense, simply find an example of a dashboard (the cooler the better) and leave a link to it in the comments below. Please only one entry per person. A winner will be randomly selected on March 2. Good luck!
UPDATE: This giveaway’s all wrapped up. Check your email, and thanks for participating.
http://charts.jorgecamoes.com/wp-content/uploads/2007/09/demographic-dashboard-vba.png
Normally its interactive, but for purposes of posting it here, this will do.
IMHO, The AT&T Global Network Operations Center is the ultimate dashboard: http://dashboardspy.com/dashboard-screenshot-how-big-is-your-dashboard.html
found via http://www.juiceanalytics.com/writing/8-features-successful-real-time-dashboards/
I really like this Excel based dashboard that was designed by the CFO of a bank to counteract extensive PPT presentations. It’s packed full of information, but would be great for a person in his shoes.
http://www.enterprise-dashboard.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/07/excel-2008-dashboard-banking-microcharts.png
I googled “executive dashboard” and scanned for examples that I thought were really good examples.
I hate to be a dashboard snob, but I didn’t find many good examples! I was looking for something that gave clear indications of current status of some, but not too many, key metrics, trend history (to see if things are improving), and something describing the current state of a process or queue.
The best I found (it was a quick scan) was here: http://www.qualys.com/images/products/screens/compliance-dashboard.png It gives a decent overview of trends and current status, and provides a not-overwhelming sample of detailed information.
The “Building Dashboard” by Lucid Design Group: http://www.luciddesigngroup.com/schools.php
A great example of using the visual display of data to help people understand the consequences of their actions and adjust behaviors accordingly. In this case, the environmental impacts of living.
http://report.globalintegrity.org/
Beautifully executed sparkline style graphic that shows corruption indices for nation states. loves it.
The Saudi Aramco control center… which was shown on 60 Minutes a few months ago. Ben Fry (http://www.benfry.com) posted a clip from that broadcast featuring their dashboard up to Vimeo…
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Aveva is a UK based company making plant design software. One of their products *is* a customizable dashboard…
http://www.power-technology.com/contractors/front/aveva/aveva2.html
…digging directly into their other products (the nearest thing to a screen shot I could find).
I’ve always been fond of this dashboard at the California Independent System Operator headquarters:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/85772001@N00/197469857/
It shows the status of the California electrical grid system.
http://designologue.com/mint/
http://haveamint.com/images/screenshots/mint-max-1680×1050.gif
*ALL credit goes to Shaun Inman for Mint (http://haveamint.com/) and Designologue (http://designologue.com/).
Statistics Estonia has quite an interesting one on sustainability. See this link for a description of their program: http://www.stat.ee/dashboard
And here for their dashboard:
http://esl.jrc.it/dc/estn1/
The actual dashboard is in estonian but this pdf has a good English summary, including images: http://www.stat.ee/public/naidikulaud/estonia_in_europe.pdf
Indianapolis Museum of Art
Forward thinking institution with a publicly available dashboard covering all facets of their operations. I like the way the same elements can be navigated by topic or by department.
http://dashboard.imamuseum.org/
**Not entering this one Nathan just sharin’…. someone else will put sisense to better use than me I am sure.
Simple and effective…
http://robslink.com/SAS/democd22/tele.htm
Shouldn’t all these entries be simple and effective? ;-)
This one will get you to space.
http://lh4.ggpht.com/_9JSbpSFkIGU/SI3pD53TXfI/AAAAAAAABcU/qR85PnhAXLI/IMG_4046.JPG
For sure it is not good manners to blow one’s own horn, but since westius pointed to the Estonian dashboard, I couldn’t resist to chip in with a link to my Lithuanian showcase:
http://www.clearlyandsimply.com/clearly_and_simply/2009/01/lithuania-at-a-glance.html
http://www.sisense.com/Store/dashboard_examples.aspx
I like this dashboard because it addresses the difficult task of fusing many forms of information: textual, graphical, live video, simulated, and graphically dispersed to support situation awareness.
Other great dashboard examples can be found at: http://www.enterprise-dashboard.com/sitemap/
This is the dashboard I am referring to:
http://www.enterprise-dashboard.com/2007/11/08/situation-awareness-and-incident-management-dashboards/
I’m a big Omniture SiteCatalyst fan mainly because of the great dashboard’s it can serve up.
http://www.techcrunch.com/wp-content/omniture_shot.png
(via TechCrunch)
Interesting:
http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&articleId=9113601
Nice offline dashboard. ;)
http://farm1.static.flickr.com/66/220260864_f3d9cf2fee.jpg?v=0
size matters!
http://dashboardspy.com/dashboards/29/really-big-dashboards
http://www.pageflakes.com/
Dunno who still uses this, but always very nifty to me.
http://news.geocommons.com/obamameter
map dash!
Still the cleanest dashboard I’ve seen that provides just the right amount of information through a great interface, and it’s reliable…
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/shared/bsp/hi/live_stats/html/map.stm
Here’s website dedicated to the “Dashboard.”
Sorry, Here’s the link:
http://www.enterprise-dashboard.com/
http://dashboardspy.com/dashboard-screenshot-how-big-is-your-dashboard.html
or
http://news.geocommons.com/obamameter
hehehehhehehe
Hey Bo R., those are my sparklines you nominated on the Global Integrity Report site (http://report.globalintegrity.org)! Thanks for noticing!