RE: Buzzword alert?: Dashboard reports

["Tammy Van Boening" <tvanboening -at- insureworx -dot- com>]

In computer user interfaces, a dashboard is a window that provides
contextual access to commonly used tools in a software program. The
metaphor is the collection of gauges on a car or plane dashboard. A
dashboard report is essentially a high-level summary report of key
points/indicators that can be viewed as charts, graphs, columns of data
- however, it is configured to do so - "on the fly" if you will. You
typically click a single point on the interface that requests the
generation of the report (the report factors/variables are pre-set) and
voila, the report appears in the window, or sometimes, the report is set
to generate automatically - the user doesn't even have to request to
generate the report. 

HTH,

TVB 


Tammy L. Van Boening
Engineering Technical Writer
Fiserv Insurance Solutions 
Property and Casualty Division
303-729-7733
tammy -dot- vanboening -at- fiserv -dot- com
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On Behalf Of Susan Hogarth
Sent: Tuesday, December 26, 2006 3:08 PM
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Subject: Buzzword alert?: Dashboard reports

I was just introduced to the term 'dashboard report' today. When I look
it up in Google, I get lots of software-selling type sites, but no
really good general idea of what the term encompasses. They seem to be
just spiffed-up multiple-comparison graphic data summaries.

Am I missing something? is there a good general discussion of the idea
somewhere?

Thanks!

-- 

Susan Hogarth
http://www.colliething.com
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