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Get your on-premise business metrics on your mobile

erik — Mon, 30 Jan 2012 15:04:58 +0000

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.

KPI Dashboard click-and-go integrations

erik — Wed, 04 Jan 2012 14:33:54 +0000

KPI Dashboard offers click-and-go integrations. Just provide KPI Dashboard with credentials to access the selected application / tool, and it will automatically collect trending data for (key) performance indicators, and update it every day, no configuration required.

KPI Dashboard offers amongst other the following click-and-go integrations:

We also offer integration for for example Netsuite, Salesforce, Quickbooks, and others, including the option to collect data from on-premise application such as SAP or Oracle apps. Visit the KPI Dashboard Store for an overview of all integrations.

Not 1 but 2 new Facebook integrations

erik — Thu, 22 Dec 2011 10:33:56 +0000

Just in time for the holidays, we have released two brand-new free data integrations for KPI Dashboard in our KPI Dashboard Store both for Facebook analytics: Facebook Page and Facebook Domain.

The Facebook Page integration provides daily automatically collected analytics on your Facebook page. If you also linked your company domain/URL with Facebook, the Facebook Domain integration will provide daily refreshed analytics on your domain in combination with Facebook.

So get business insight into Facebook likes, page and feed views, engaged and active users.

Happy Holidays!

How to make 966% return on your BI investment

paul — Wed, 14 Dec 2011 09:25:14 +0000

As IT budgets continue to shrink and expectations traditionally rise, you may be interested in finding a high yield on your IT spend. How about a 966% return on your investment? A recent examination of Nucleus Research found organizations earn an average of $10.66 for every dollar spent on deployments of analytics applications such as business intelligence (BI), performance management (PM), and predictive analytics. See here for an excerpt of the research note.

In addition to this, Nucleus Research found out that integrating their analytics applications multiple data sources pays off: “Companies that integrated their analytics applications with three or more data sources tended to achieve higher returns than organizations that integrated only one or two data sources.”

KPI Dashboard offers the world’s leading Cloud BI tool for Performance Management, allowing for integrating with multiple data sources, through one or more of the standard integrations available in the KPI Dashboard Store and the ability to set up custom integrations using the KPI Dashboard API.

Thousands of customers across the globe have experienced the power of SaaS BI for their performance management initiative. According to Nucleus, by learning more about their customers, products, and costs, these companies are in a strong position to cost effectively grow their business and thus gaing a considerable competitive advantage.

So… what are you waiting for?

So you need to publish your metrics by law or other regulations

erik — Thu, 08 Dec 2011 14:45:56 +0000

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.

Unlock and liberate your KPI data

erik — Thu, 01 Dec 2011 08:56:41 +0000

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.

New iPhone / iPad app release available, for free now

erik — Tue, 22 Nov 2011 18:57:54 +0000

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)

Eurozone Debt Crisis Visualized

erik — Thu, 17 Nov 2011 06:27:28 +0000

So what is really going on in the Eurozone? KPI Library consolidated all the data from Eurostat, OECD, IMF, Worldbank and some other data resources and visualized all the key data.

See for yourself: Visit the KPI Library Eurozone Dashboard.

Sneak-preview of the new KPI Dashboard

erik — Thu, 10 Nov 2011 17:47:15 +0000

As promised last week in the post on our new iPhone/iPad developments, now a brief look into our efforts in simplifying and improving the web-interface of KPI Dashboard.

The theme, as started in our previous release, is to have the indicator/scorecard list as the main interface to edit characteristics and add scores.

It’s also possible to select and install templates and integrations from within the application. Standard views such as key indicators, and best/worst indicators are easily selected. Advanced search functions are provided by narrow-by selections. Also in the next version it will be possible to personally ’star’ items for easy reference.

KPI Dashboard templates for e-commerce

erik — Mon, 07 Nov 2011 14:45:56 +0000

We have just released a new example content pack for KPI Dashboard: e-commerce. This KPI Dashboard template contains indicators and dashboard such as:

Average order value
Order revenue
Shopping cart abandonment %
% of order value returned
% of returned order items

Combine this content pack with other e-commerce and e-business templates that are available in our store, and/or out-of-the-box integrations for Google Analytics or Twitter.