Dashboards Defined
A dashboard is loosely defined as having a lot of visual information, displayed in a number of different ways, on a screen for a user to quickly assess the current state of affairs. A car’s dashboard, for example, provides the driver with important information about the current state of the car—how fast the car is going, the current engine temperature, the amount of fuel in the tank, and many other things.
Similarly, a web dashboard provides a manager with several key pieces of information about the current state of affairs. The previous sections discussed how Reports and Scorecards are ultimately displayed as web parts on SharePoint pages. In the SharePoint and PerformancePoint world, a dashboard can also be thought of as ...
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