CEOs and managers regularly spout the benefits of increased employee engagement. They cite the benefits of lower turnover rates, increased productivity, a safer workplace, higher profits, and less wasted expenditure as their top reasons for wanting a more involved team.…

Dashboards: The Successful Startup’s Secret Weapon Nobody said entrepreneurship was going to be easy. Business planning, product development, building a team, developing marketing collateral… there’s a lot that goes into getting your business off the ground. While you surely anticipated…

Protecting your data with secure dashboards With the rise of Big Data and the Internet of Things, data security is on everyone’s radar. Just because data security is a priority doesn’t mean it has to be a heartache, though. Even…

iDashboards Features Spotlight: Cascading Parameters We’ve all been there: You’re hunting for the exact answer to your problem through a crowded field of options. Take shoe shopping, for example! Say you’re a bridesmaid in a wedding, and you have to wear…

Data dashboards are only successful if the data within it organized, clean and accurate. So we’ve synced up with our awesome staff and customers to gather their top clean data tips for dashboards. 1.     Check for duplicates “Clean data does…

Streamlining your business and seeing it succeed is your ultimate goal. Like most, that’s probably why you’ve turned to – or are looking into – dashboards as your solution for a quick KPI (key performance indicator) snapshot. But without the…

Pie charts are one of the most common yet misunderstood forms of data visualization. Since March 14 is National Pi(e) Day, we thought we’d take a few moments to help both new and experienced data visualizers alike understand how to…

5 Reasons Why Dashboards Throw Spreadsheets out the “Windows” So you haven’t made the jump to dashboards just yet… and you’re still relying on reports you’ve been using for decades. If you’re like most, you’re probably pulling numbers into Microsoft…

Let’s talk about meetings. In the professional world, meetings tend to get a bad rap, probably because they take a lot of time and are (often) debatably productive. In fact, The Muse describes the amount of time people spend in…

What is a Data Dashboard? Dashboards for business are the next innovation that will turn your company around. You might be asking yourself, well, isn’t a dashboard the thing on my car? Yes, but I’m talking about data dashboards for…