I promised you a Sales Management related dashboard earlier this week, and here it is!
As it’s sales related, in producing this I’ve strived to introduce a new level of clarity and adopted what should be a best practice going forward of dedicating the most screen real estate to the metrics that matter most to the intended viewer. In the case of the sales manager, it’s all about the dollars, so figures like the value of sales for the chosen period and the no. of units sold are given prime position.
On loading, this dashboard runs any combination from a total of 18 XSQL queries and repopulates the gadgets with the results for the chosen date and period in under 5 seconds.
It also attempts to give an insight into how sales and marketing may be peforming as a whole with an insight into the trend for sales enquiries for the last 30 days. Armed with this as a sales manager, I can get a feel for whether or not any current marketing campaigns are working (i.e are we seeing a spike in enquiries taken as a result of marketing spend this week/month? ) and address the situation as the need arises.
James,
I appreciate the Xcelsius examples you’ve posted. They look great and exemplify the possibilities for those exploring the product. Thanks again, and nice blog, by the way.
Hi John,
Thanks for visiting! I could scarcely believe your kind remarks and in typical geek fashion (and a real spam hater!) I did an IP lookup on the address you posted from and got this :
OrgName: Business Objects
OrgID: BUSSI
Address: 910 Mainland Street
City: Vancouver StateProv: BC PostalCode: V6B-4J2
Country: CA
NetRange: 20x.xxx.xxx.0 – 20x.xxx.xxx.xxx
The fact that it refers back to an Ontario based ISP confirmed you were indeed genuine (my spam on Akismet has trebled in the last 3 weeks!) so thanks a million for your kind remarks and taking the time to comment. I wish more would do the same.
Stay tuned!
JL
Hi Jim-
Very cool dashboards!
We’re working on some Xcelsius projects and I had a question about your use of XSQL and Tomcat. Did you add an XML Data Connection that references the XSQL page in Xcelsius? Or did you use a different Data connection (and if so did it require a WSDL)?
Thanks,
michael
Hey can i get a dash board for real estate scenario.
i searched lots of things on web but not getting a proper dash board for real estate..
if u have some example then plz send me the link on my email id.