Data Warehouse and Business Intelligence Dashboard Paradigm
Nils Rasmussen, Claire Y. Chen, Manish Bansal · 2012
A real-time dashboard contains shorter time ranges and sometimes a brief aggregation of raw transactional data. An example of such a real-time dashboard would be a network traffic dashboard. A dashboard that displays daily information is typically used to monitor week-to-date, month-to-date, quarter-to-date, or year-to-date progressions. This type of data is frequently displayed in operational dashboards. An operational dashboard helps managers understand their daily operations from various views and angles. This type of dashboard usually includes many charts and graphs. One major characteristic of an operational dashboard is that it combines data from multiple data sources. A business dashboard contains many charts and graphs. Each chart offers a perspective that other charts do not. Some charts have a very short time window, whereas other charts cover multiple years of information.