Performance Dashboards: Measuring, Monitoring, and Managing Your Business, Edition 2

· John Wiley & Sons
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Tips, techniques, and trends on harnessing dashboard technology to optimize business performance

In Performance Dashboards, Second Edition, author Wayne Eckerson explains what dashboards are, where they can be used, and why they are important to measuring and managing performance. As Director of Research for The Data Warehousing Institute, a worldwide association of business intelligence professionals, Eckerson interviewed dozens of organizations that have built various types of performance dashboards in different industries and lines of business. Their practical insights explore how you can effectively turbo-charge performance–management initiatives with dashboard technology.

  • Includes all-new case studies, industry research, news chapters on "Architecting Performance Dashboards" and "Launching and Managing the Project" and updated information on designing KPIs, designing dashboard displays, integrating dashboards, and types of dashboards.
  • Provides a solid foundation for understanding performance dashboards, business intelligence, and performance management
  • Addresses the next generation of performance dashboards, such as Mashboards and Visual Discovery tools, and including new techniques for designing dashboards and developing key performance indicators
  • Offers guidance on how to incorporate predictive analytics, what-if modeling, collaboration, and advanced visualization techniques

This updated book, which is 75% rewritten, provides a foundation for understanding performance dashboards, business intelligence, and performance management to optimize performance and accelerate results.

Ratings and reviews

4.5
4 reviews
A Google user
January 6, 2011
Performance Dashboards: Measuring, Monitoring, and Managing your Business by Wayne Eckerson is quite possibly my favorite business intelligence book. I've recommended the first edition of Performance Dashboards to my clients, regardless of whether they were business users or IT professionals. For the second edition, I had two primary questions. First, would it still be the first book I'd recommend? And second, should owners of the first edition purchase the second edition? I'm happy to say that the answer to both questions is "yes". Although the book covers the same themes as its predecessor, the book's contents have been reorganized and over 50% of the material is new. If you're looking for your first book on business intelligence, dashboards and performance management, this is it. And if you own the first edition, you'll appreciate the new chapters, case studies, and new organization of the material. I've seen many dashboard projects fail because either the business sponsors, the IT department, or sometimes both think that they can continue business as usual. There is a third way and Performance Dashboards provides valuable insights that can help you find it.
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About the author

WAYNE ECKERSON is an industry thought leader and consultant who has covered business intelligence (BI) since 1995. Eckerson has conducted numerous in-depth research studies on BI and is a noted speaker and blogger. He is the author of a popular BI Maturity Model and chair of TDWI’s BI Executive Summit, which educates business and technical executives about best practices and emerging trends in BI and performance management. He is currently director of TDWI Research and can be reached at [email protected].

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