It seems that everything is going interactive these days. Our phones, our computers, even some of our cars. Heck, I was temporarily stunned last night when my TV didn’t respond to my command when I tapped on the screen to pick out the movie I wanted to watch. We seem to expect that our technology responds to our needs and wishes.
As it should.
The same is true of dashboards. Adding interactive elements, like form controls and slicers, invites users to engage, get involved, ask questions, and understand the data more deeply than they otherwise would. The ability for your clients, team members, employees and colleagues to ask their own questions and get the answers they seek means your data is more powerful than ever.
Interactive dashboards are built upon complex analytics that have the ability to respond to individual queries. The power of them lies in the range of use:
• Review, compare and explore historical data
• With one generic dashboard, you can offer filters on almost any field in your data so that users can get the insights that pertain to their group or project
• Get answers and insights without having to know query language
• No need to be knowledgeable about the data structure, data complexity or the complexity of queries
• Watch and contrast performance metrics for a date range of choice to review the impact of historical events
• Worry-free filters maintain privacy and security for sensitive data
Engaging your users with interactive dashboards helps them to be informed and to feel more in control of the decisions they have to make every day.
