Comments on: “All that glisters is not gold” – some thoughts on dashboards http://peterjamesthomas.com/2009/02/25/all-that-glisters-is-not-gold-some-thoughts-on-dashboards/ Thoughts on the confluence of business, change and technology. Areas covered include business intelligence, cultural transformation, business and IT alignment, business and IT strategy, project execution and social media. Sun, 20 May 2012 04:05:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Peter Thomas http://peterjamesthomas.com/2009/02/25/all-that-glisters-is-not-gold-some-thoughts-on-dashboards/#comment-4147 Tue, 15 Feb 2011 22:24:29 +0000 http://peterthomas.wordpress.com/?p=1646#comment-4147 Hi Tim,

Thanks a lot for taking the time to comment.

Dashboard proliferation worries me. How many dashboards does an aeroplane need?

On KPIs I guess in reality many of them are perhaps just PIs, of interest to some (those who want the dashboard) but not all.

I think that there should be alignment between true Enterprise KPIs and analysis facilities. In the in between world that I think you are describing (please correct me if I am wrong), then I agree that maybe taking too purist a cube-based approach could be tough work.

Peter

]]> By: Tim Wiley http://peterjamesthomas.com/2009/02/25/all-that-glisters-is-not-gold-some-thoughts-on-dashboards/#comment-4146 Tue, 15 Feb 2011 21:44:26 +0000 http://peterthomas.wordpress.com/?p=1646#comment-4146 Peter,
This is a great article. I have been doing dashboarding for a while and getting these concepts across to managing/sponsoring members is the “BIGGEST” part of the undertaking… but we still find ourselves having to develop dashboards that don’t have any enterprise enforced consisitents measures and targets at common levels across KPI’s.

For this same reason when dealing with disparate KPI’s with ragged hierachies and multiple measures with different formats currency, decimals, percentages etc…

I strongly recommend against using cubes as sources for Dashboards because getting the cube to align and deal with different measures across different grains with targets and actuals that are calculated differently at different levels is more work inside a cube beating up its intended purpose than just managing isolated structures dedicated to serving up metric/KPI oriented content at different levels.

]]> By: A bad workman blames his [Business Intelligence] tools « Peter Thomas – Award-winning Business Intelligence and Cultural Transformation Expert http://peterjamesthomas.com/2009/02/25/all-that-glisters-is-not-gold-some-thoughts-on-dashboards/#comment-2327 Wed, 29 Jul 2009 16:59:02 +0000 http://peterthomas.wordpress.com/?p=1646#comment-2327 [...] parallels. In a series of previous articles (including BI implementations are like icebergs, “All that glisters is not gold” – some thoughts on dashboards and Short-term “Trouble for Big Business Intelligence Vendors” may lead to longer-term [...]

]]> By: An update of the most read articles on this site « Peter Thomas – Award-winning Business Intelligence and Cultural Transformation Expert http://peterjamesthomas.com/2009/02/25/all-that-glisters-is-not-gold-some-thoughts-on-dashboards/#comment-2034 Wed, 01 Jul 2009 14:24:54 +0000 http://peterthomas.wordpress.com/?p=1646#comment-2034 [...] “All that glisters is not gold” – some thoughts on dashboards [...]

]]> By: Using multiple business intelligence tools in an implementation « Peter Thomas – Award-winning Business Intelligence and Cultural Transformation Expert http://peterjamesthomas.com/2009/02/25/all-that-glisters-is-not-gold-some-thoughts-on-dashboards/#comment-1476 Sat, 16 May 2009 00:43:18 +0000 http://peterthomas.wordpress.com/?p=1646#comment-1476 [...] dashboards on an established information architecture (something I cover in my earlier article, “All that glisters is not gold” – some thoughts on dashboards, which is also pertinent to these [...]

]]> By: Peter Thomas http://peterjamesthomas.com/2009/02/25/all-that-glisters-is-not-gold-some-thoughts-on-dashboards/#comment-1421 Wed, 13 May 2009 15:48:32 +0000 http://peterthomas.wordpress.com/?p=1646#comment-1421 Dave,

Glad that the article was of use to you and thank you for your comments.

Peter

]]> By: Dave Barker http://peterjamesthomas.com/2009/02/25/all-that-glisters-is-not-gold-some-thoughts-on-dashboards/#comment-1419 Wed, 13 May 2009 15:15:08 +0000 http://peterthomas.wordpress.com/?p=1646#comment-1419 Peter,
Thanks for linking this to your post about Maureen’s article as I missed it when you first posted it. Your thoughts on dashboards resonnate with me. In my company there’s a good amount of buzz around dashboards and I’m trying to ensure we embrace the enthusiasm for these decision tools while taking a practical approach to implementing them. This post is helpful in crystalizing our plans.

Dave

]]> By: Maureen Clarry stresses the need for change skills in business intelligence on BeyeNetwork « Peter Thomas – Award-winning Business Intelligence and Cultural Transformation Expert http://peterjamesthomas.com/2009/02/25/all-that-glisters-is-not-gold-some-thoughts-on-dashboards/#comment-1383 Tue, 12 May 2009 18:14:38 +0000 http://peterthomas.wordpress.com/?p=1646#comment-1383 [...] the key business questions that need to be answered and the data available to answer them with. In “All that glisters is not gold” – some thoughts on dashboards, I made similar points about this aspect of BI [...]

]]> By: Business Intelligence Competency Centres « Peter Thomas – Award-winning Business Intelligence and Cultural Transformation Expert http://peterjamesthomas.com/2009/02/25/all-that-glisters-is-not-gold-some-thoughts-on-dashboards/#comment-1338 Mon, 11 May 2009 17:26:38 +0000 http://peterthomas.wordpress.com/?p=1646#comment-1338 [...] and the subject “business decisions” are the key elements; something that is often forgotten in a rush for technological fripperies.     The central [...]

]]> By: Peter Thomas http://peterjamesthomas.com/2009/02/25/all-that-glisters-is-not-gold-some-thoughts-on-dashboards/#comment-1152 Thu, 30 Apr 2009 14:00:37 +0000 http://peterthomas.wordpress.com/?p=1646#comment-1152 Hi Michele,

I think it’s pretty important to have targeted, manageable schema (at least at the Data Mart level) otherwise it all becomes much too unwieldy.

Peter

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