(The SAS dashboarding functionality is, unfortunately,
not currently available in SAS University Edition and therefore SAS
Studio provided via this package. It is available via all packages
that include SAS/GRAPH, such as SAS 9.4 or SAS® Analytics Pro.)
When composing business
reports, it is often useful to create simple but powerful dashboard graphics.
These are graphics that allow you to express the level of some important
measurement, in relation to a user-defined range, and potentially
compared to a target level. Often, we also create thresholds within
the range.
For example, you may
use a dashboard to express a month’s production levels from
your car factory as follows: