According to Gartner, “By 2016, more than half of real-time business dashboards will provide a panoramic view that provides information from multiple sources”.
Business users demand more from mobile computing. New Salesforce1 Mobile tool for Reports & Dashboards gives access to business users to view and customize reports from their mobile devices anytime and anywhere.
Different dashboards and their benefits
- Sales Executive Dashboards: Used by sales executives to give the individual, teams’ and company’s performance report in real-time. It gives the sales executives and managers, a deeper visibility into reports.
- Pipeline Dashboards: Used by Sales Managers to identify different opportunities that can be further personalized such as today’s pipeline, pipeline history, revenue forecast and sales results.
- Marketing Dashboards: Marketing digital dashboards tell you which different channels are working and which are not – also providing a deeper dive into insights like lead conversion rate, branding performance and engagement trends.
Bar Charts: Used to show quantitative data through grid, vertical or horizontal columns. For e.g. to view comparisons among various sales reports.
Pie Charts: Used when working with limited components in reports and presentations. For e.g. to view individual sales per sales rep per month.
Column Charts: Used to display data with rectangular bars. For e.g. used by sales reps and managers to define quarterly sales.
Line Graph: Used to illustrate a single trend – often in reports and presentations. For e.g. a sales strategy used to make predictions about the result of the data not yet recorded.
- Easier to view important data on the go, as users today don’t have the time to sift through complex data
- Customizable as per users’ preferences
- Easy to use, drag and drop module
- Real-time data update and syncing
