Microsoft Silverlight 5 Building Rich Enterprise Dashboards by Snyder Todd; Matthew Duffield; Jeffrey Smith; Joel Eden

Author:Snyder Todd; Matthew Duffield; Jeffrey Smith; Joel Eden
Language: eng
Format: mobi
ISBN: 9781849682343
Publisher: Packt Publishing
Published: 2011-09-18T00:00:00+00:00

Requirement 1

The ability to see performance data for key KPIs (sales/revenue, profit, costs) together in one location of the dashboard.

Related scenario text: First, Steve wants to get a sense of the overall sales picture, so he opens up the dashboard application. With the way that the dashboard shows the main KPIs, such as overall revenue, profit, and costs, Steve can simply scan down the list and see which ones are meeting their targets.

This requirement is not related to comparing values, because each KPI will be considered separately. Therefore, we can rule out chart types that are best for comparisons, such as pie charts and line graphs. What we would want to do is use a simple table listing the KPIs, providing the key numerical values for each, as well as a very small graphical representation of the value. Sparklines are a good choice for this graphical representation, because they are meant to be word-sized and therefore would fit on the same line within this table. Following is an image of what this would look like for our scenario.

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