Dashboards can be powerful in communicating your organization’s important measurement data as a result of you Hyperion Planning process, your Hyperion Financial Consolidation or additional financial and non-financial information. If a dashboard fails to tell you what needs in a glance, then you’ve wasted all that data collection time.
There are a couple of suggestions for a good dashboard design:
No Scrolling
If you can see everything at once, it is most powerful. Try avoid fragmenting your data by having to scroll. This requires some discipline to think long and hard about what data is most useful to gain an understanding.
Give Context
One piece of data out of context on the screen can be meaningless. So think about the set of data that tells the whole story.
Avoid too much Details
Dashboards should have high level information to support the viewer’s need for a quick overview. Too many data points or data points that are too precise slow down our thinking processes.
