Quick Answers from Faster Dashboards

Overview

To achieve maximum impact, business intelligence dashboards must be created fast, perform fast, and adapt fast. Unfortunately, traditional BI dashboards-dependent on IT and predetermined metrics-are unable to keep pace with real-world conditions and ad hoc queries, causing a disconnect between users' needs and their dashboards' capabilities. The solution is a living dashboard, a powerful tool built around a new computing paradigm-in-memory associative search-that no longer locks data away but makes it accessible to all. This paper explores how living dashboards empower business users by putting them in the driver's seat and how this newfound, visibility can significantly impact an organization's performance.