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D ATA D A SHB O A R DS

Why you need to embrace

data dashboards

By Mihir Daya, Senior Business Analyst at Transnova Africa

Data dashboards will help you make sense of all the data in your business
operations.

ata has changed our lives in so many ways, and presents key metrics to monitor the health of
helping to improve the processes, initiatives and an organisation’s operations and drive continuous
D innovations of organisations across different improvement.
industry sectors through the power of insight. Data
improves daily decision-making, but, with so many stats, Behind the scenes, a dashboard connects to your
facts and figures to choose from, it can be daunting to files, attachments, services and APIs, but, on the
know where to start. Enter data dashboards – one of the surface, displays all this data in the form of tables, line
best innovations in business intelligence. charts, bar charts and gauges. A data dashboard is
the most efficient way to track multiple data sources
A data dashboard is an information management because it provides a central location for businesses to
tool that collates big data and visually structures the monitor and analyse performance. Real-time monitoring
front end of the data in a dynamic, live, informative reduces the hours of analysing and long lines of
fashion. The visual structure of the data tracks, analyses communication that previously challenged businesses.

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