Product News

Good news for all business managers that would love to have their business metrics — for which the data reside in databases behind the firewall (on-premise) — available on their smart-phone. We have made the integration of on-premise data into KPI Dashboard much easier with our Data Collector.

With the Data Collector you can connect to any datasource, Oracle, SQL Server, SAP BW. The Data Collector is a secure software agent that is installed within your IT infrastructure. The Data Collector enables configuration of data collection from SQL structured databases, and it automatically sends collected data as indicator scores to your KPI Dashboard account.

The DataCollector and its documentation is available for all KPI Dashboard Editions. Go to our download page and download the Data Collector right now. To get an impression about the capabilities of the DataCollector please take a look at our online tutorial.

Some organizations need (really need: by law or other regulations) to publish metrics regularly, for example local and regional government agencies, semi-government agencies, hospitals, insurers, government funded organizations / projects, etc. Most common methods are sharing PDF documents or using a web publishing system, or even having some programmers publish the data periodically on your web site. A lot of time and money is spent on getting first the data right, and then getting the visualization right. Most common mistakes are in publishing wrong data (due to for example wrong formulas, or due to typos).

KPI Dashboard offers a cost-effective alternative. The metrics for publication are stored in the KPI Dashboard data repository in the Cloud, and data is shared via public dashboards that can be embedded in web sites, for your own look & feel. Next to being more cost-effective, you get a nice visualization, and graph interactions to allow your visitors to dive into the data. Also, we can make the same data easily available on mobile devices, just because the data is centrally stored in the Cloud.

We have several customers that are responsible for periodic publication of data that use KPI Dashboard. One of our customers is the Dutch Land Registry Office. We help them to get data out of SAP systems on land registry activities to visualize trends in prices and sales of land and homes in the Netherlands. They embed this in their web site (warning: in Dutch but you probably get a feel for the possibilities).

Another interesting example is our Eurozone dashboard that shows the state of the Eurozone.

If you’re interested in talking to us with regard to this solution, get in contact with us.

Chances are that you have KPI data hidden in an Oracle, SQL Server or MySQL database, or you rely heavily on SAP, Oracle or Microsoft applications. 

Valuable company management data is unavailable to managers and board of directors. 

We have an extension available to our existing API in our Developer Center that allows your system integrator to easily collect KPI data from data sources (such as database applications and data warehouses) that our in your own IT infrastructure behind your firewall. This allows you to build management reports, and share them via the web and mobile.

Contact us for a conversation on how to unlock and liberate that KPI data.

We have just released a new iPhone / iPad app release available for KPI Dashboard. As a bonus, from today the iPhone / iPad app is available for free in the Apple App Store.

New in this release:

• New look & feel
• Breakdowns and aggregates
• Messages
• Ability to personalize by starring

P.s. We renamed the app to KPIDashboard (formerly known as KPIScorecard)