Deepdive: Dashboards andScorecards in Your

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Dashboards Are Visual Displays of Information

Dashboard Benefits

• Increase transparency and accountability

• Promote collaboration• Enable better decision making• Business users have the

information they need without relying on IT

Scorecards Are Elements of a Dashboard Used to Track Status

Scorecards Help Measure KPIs and Support Better Decision Making

• Measure KPIs at all levels of the organization

• Align, monitor, and drive performance

• Break out and analyze key metrics by product, geography, channel, segment, etc.

• Provide transparency and accountability

• Support better decision making

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Key Features of Microsoft BI Dashboards and Scoreboards

• Create dynamic dashboards• Deliver rich scorecard and

analytic view capabilities• Allow for advanced

visualizations (decomposition tree, strategy maps)

• Provide user with easy tools in a familiar environment

• Integrate with Excel Services, Reporting Services, Virtual Earth (SDK)

Microsoft Business Intelligence Offering

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Business Collaboration Platform

Data Infrastructure & BI Platform

Business User Experience

Data Infrastructure and BI Platform• Analysis Services• Reporting Services• Integration Services• Master Data Services• Data Mining• Data Warehousing

Business Collaboration Platform• Dashboards & scorecards• Excel Services• Web based forms & workflow• Collaboration• Search• Content management• LOB data integration

Familiar User Experience • Self-service access & insight• Data exploration & analysis• Predictive analysis• Data visualization• Contextual visualization

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