Oracle CRM On Demand Dashboards

Why Do You Need a Dashboard?

This seems like such a simple question, one that someone requesting a dashboard should be able to answer easily. The answer, however, is often not so clear. Performing a simple needs analysis to determine the need for a dashboard will save you the time and effort involved in creating dashboards that will not be used. Custom dashboards is a relatively new feature in Oracle CRM On Demand, and analytics dashboards is a hot topic in the business world, so it is easy to want a dashboard because it seems like you should. Too often, we are asked to create a dashboard because we can, not because there is a real need for one.

There are three reasons to create a dashboard: ease of access to information, cater information for ...