2. 5W and How | Business Dashboard for Company
• Business Dashboard is tools to monitor your business in (just) minutes
• You need Business Dashboard when you need to monitor the business
• Because you run your business, so you need to know ‘where’ your business is
• Business Dashboard must to easy to be accessed
• Which Business Dashboard is best? Business Dashboard is based on your needs
• How to build one? Know your needs, research for appropriate one and build
4. Rules to Build a Business Dashboard
• First and Important Rule : Be Fancy and Eye Catching
• Do not have to be sophisticated but must appropriate
• Do not have to be expensive but find tools that fulfill your needs
• Maintain good communication with users
• Think seriously for the look and feel of the Business Dashboard
• Keep learning and improving your dashboard
• Think about supporting application for further query of detail data,
such as: Business Intelligence, Automatic Reports, etc.
5. Study Case and My Experience : Insurance Company
After the launching of Business
Intelligence solution, for somehow
management would like to have a screen
just like Bloomberg screen so they able
to monitor each channel of the business
with less “mouse clicking”. So after
looking for many tools for Business
Dashboard, it ends with one tool from
SAP called SAP Business Object Xcelsius.
Unfortunately, seems that there was no
Indonesian company or vendor that ever
use the tools. So, I have to seek for how
to operate the tools on the internet. And
finally the dashboard is done and seems
that the response from the users is good.
I have a Indonesian map with colors that
show my achievement, various graph for
my data and a running text to show
important information. And guess what,
it is only cost around IDR 10mio or USD
1,000.