I like to keep my ear to the ground in the world of business intelligence, so when I come across something that is unfamiliar to me, I tend to geek out a bit. Recently, as I was researching dashboards (as…

At the risk of stating the obvious, business executives live a busy life. Last year, Harvard Business Review published a survey explaining how 1,000 CEOs spend their day. An average day-in-the-life of a CEO could be broken down into four…

You’ll never meet your goals if you don’t know what they are or how close you are to reaching them. For many organizations, this is where a balanced scorecard comes in. What is a balanced scorecard, you may ask? The…

What it Takes to Build a Dashboard for Your Small Business If you’re a small business owner, you know what it means to get the most out of every dollar. But what about getting the most out of your data?…

How many times have you been in a meeting where someone makes an important business decision based entirely on intuition? It doesn’t inspire confidence when someone has an idea on how to increase revenue, productivity, or any other key metric…

With the advent of the Internet and big data, business leaders are slowly changing their mentality from a “need to know” basis to complete transparency. Companies that have become more transparent have seen a huge boost in morale. It’s not…

In today’s data-driven environment, business dashboards generate a lot of buzz. You’re probably reading this blog post because you find yourself asking one (or all) of the following questions: What are dashboards? What is the purpose of a dashboard? What…

iDashboards, which specialises in business intelligence dashboard solutions, has announced that it will host a two-day international conference for end users and partners in Dubai next year. The event, to be held from January 20 to 21, 2016, will be…