The following is a list of some considerations related to dashboard evaluations. It provides an initial set of considerations.
Dashboard Purpose
By starting with the business pain, decision makers can limit their dashboard choice to one that meets their specific business requirements.  For example, some companies require operational dashboards to help them manage their call centers, whereas [...]

Earlier this week, the BBBT members got together and wrote a blog about a recent analyst briefing on Microsoft SQL Server 2008 R2.  The general goal of the briefing was to update industry analysts and consultants about Microsoft’s product update, roadmap, general technical details, and the like. Even though I was unable to attend the [...]

Last week I attended and gave a talk at Salon BI in Montreal.  Although there were many good presentations, one that I really enjoyed was Jean-Paul Isson’s presentation (he’ll be speaking at TDWI next month).  Jean-Paul Isson, Global VP of BI and Predictive Analytics for Monster discussed the evolution of Monster’s homegrown text analytics solution [...]

This past Friday I had the opportunity to attend my first Boulder BI Brain Trust (BBBT) meeting remotely with Lyzasoft (here’s a link to their free trial) as a presenter and was impressed overall. One of the things I really like about Lyzasoft specifically is their focus on social media and BI.  By taking analytics, [...]

The interest surrounding mobile BI ebbs and flows over time.  Even though many solution providers offer mobile BI solutions, the reality is that adoption remains low.  And even though many decision makers take their work on the road, BI doesn’t seem to be a part of the equation outside of office or use of traditional [...]

Klipfolio announced their v5.4 release of Klipfolio Dashboard today – a desktop dashboard focused on providing operational Key Performance Indicators (KPIs).  Some interesting additions to their product are:

Search – the ability to use search functionality within the dashboards to filter out columns and to identify interesting data points using Boolean operators.
Drill across – in addition [...]

Last week I wrote a piece for Dashboard Insight about the convergence of BI and unstructured data.  Over the years the topic of unstructured data keeps poking its head into the realm of business intelligence, but has yet to be seen on a large scale.  Some interesting vendors that I wrote about (please see [...]

Until recently, open source solutions were most popular within various developer communities but remained on the fringe of general business intelligence implementations. Over the past couple of years, however, open source BI, data warehousing, and data integration solutions have become more mainstream within the BI market creating a shift in the way BI solution providers. [...]

In general, while meeting with vendors at TDWI to get updates on products and to identify changes in roadmaps, etc., it becomes possible to identify general market trends and the overall position solution providers are taking to provide their customers with additional business value. Based on my conversations over the past week, here are some [...]

Every now and then I speak with vendors’ customers to get a different take on solutions being used and what companies really think about products that are marketed with only a positive spin. I also enjoy hearing about the business benefits and value mid-market companies are achieving through their use of BI. As a bonus, [...]