Archives for May 2011
Satisfy the Cat with User Centered Design
What? Why is this post about cats on a blog about business intelligence dashboards? Watch this video and you’ll see why it’s so important to …
How to Choose a Font
When choosing fonts for your business intelligence applications, I definitely recommend sticking with the basic san serif fonts such as Arial or Verdana. The …
Introduction to Enterprise Dashboards
The basics of enterprise dashboards is covered in this video by the author of the book: Enterprise Dashboards: Design and Best Practices for IT. By …
Using a Dashboard SDK in Visual Studio for Easy Dashboard Programming
If your custom application development is being done using Microsoft tools such as Visual Studio 2010, and are getting into business intelligence dashboard programming, take …
Building Dashboards in Visual Studio
We continue our look at building a business intelligence dashboard using Microsoft Visual Studio 2010. as you will see from watching this video a toolkit …
Doctors Use Dashboards To Track Patient Data
In this video we see an example of a doctor’s patient dashboard. Various screens from the business dashboard are shown including patient demographics, patient history, …
Business Drivers for Transportation Dashboard
This video talks about a business intelligence dashboard for transportation. One slide that caught my attention was the listing of Business drivers for such a …
How the Military Securely Erases Hard Drive Data
This video shows how the military securely destroys data on hard drives. Watch the first few minutes of this technique and I think you’ll agree …
Social Media Monitoring
Social media metrics dashboards are becoming quite popular. Actionable insights vs noise has been the challenge to measure engagement with social media efforts. Monitoring the …
Air Hockey on Server Room Floor
I think we may have discovered the true intent behind the design of the raised floors in the data center. We used to think it …













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