Dashboard Manager
Dashboard Manager is designed to provide visibility to your business activities across your organization. Dashboard Manager offers metrics, alerting and dashboard management capabilities to help your organization monitor and understand business activities. Dashboard Manager is designed to provide visibility to your business activities across your organization. Dashboard Manager offers metrics, alerting and dashboard management capabilities to help your organization monitor and understand business activities.
Preferred Strategies Bolt-on Solution - Signal Web Desktop
If your organization wants to leverage your existing investment in Crystal Reports, Crystal Enterprise, or Crystal Reports Server, then the Signal Web Desktop may be the right fit for you. The Signal provides organizations with an increased and consistent level of visibility into the company's performance. The Signal provides a means to graphically monitor organizations critical business areas through the use of metrics, key performance indicators and alerting.
Signal Web Desktop helps you to:
- Monitor business metrics to measure performance
- Track key performance indicators to identify trends
- Leverage your technology investments
Key Features
Company Tree Structure
The folder structure is built in Business Objects Enterprise using Enterprise security and is managed from the Central Management Console (Business Objects Enterprise web-based administrative interface).
Web Desktop Content Pages
Each quadrant contains a separate Crystal Report. Clicking on the 'Display More Details' link, allows a user to drilldown to get a greater level of detail regarding the summary chart or graph. Each quadrant can be easily emailed, printed or saved.
Critical Reports
Seamlessly access the Business Objects Enterprise web desktop where both Operational and Financial Reports can be accessed by end-users over the web, resulting in one location for all of your critical information.
Alerts
Alerts help monitor your organizations performance. Examples of these key performance indicators may include production cost, customer behavior, pricing, sales trends, employee turnover, balance sheet ratios, etc.
Alerts are identified by a red, yellow, or green icon. Green confirms that the pre-determined metric is within guidelines, Yellow indicates a warning and Red warns of performance issues. The criterion for each Alert is defined by your organization.
Maximize Enterprise Performance
Signal provides your organization
with the ability to analyze your business and make decisions instantly, thus
enhancing your bottom-line performance. Through the use of a single interface,
managers can easily identify strong or non-performing business units and quickly
drilldown to identify root causes in order to take corrective action.
Key Features Include:
- Key Performance Indicators
- Metrics
- Alerting
- Graphical Views
- Link to Existing Operational Reports
- Enterprise Security
Consistent visibility into organizational performance will result in greater efficiency when it comes to decision making, as all parts of the organization are viewing the same data.
How Does It Work?
Signal Web Desktop utilizes your existing Business Objects Enterprise architecture and requires no additional software in order to run. The Business Objects Enterprise web interface is embedded within Signal, allowing users to easily and seamlessly navigate between Signal and existing Operational reports. By embedding your existing architecture within Signal, you're also able to take advantage of your existing security settings, making the Signal Web Desktop near maintenance-free.
The information provided within Signal is generated directly from Crystal Reports. Existing reports developed within Crystal Reports are 'pushed' out to Signal and are made available for viewing. This 'Push Technology' enables quicker access to data, as reports are readily available for viewing.
