Dashboard Presentation of Analytic Data
Data visualization dashboard software allows for easy monitoring of many KPIs and key metrics on the same page. Through well-constructed data dashboards, it becomes possible to comb through a flood of information to find the most valuable data or specific KPIs in need of monitoring.
By investing in customized dashboard software, a business becomes able to streamline its analytical data collection process and perform in-depth data analysis in real-time. Even the most basic dashboard can provide a comprehensive overview of a business’s overall performance as needed.
Simaxx as a Dashboard
Simaxx presents data and information in a simple dashboard view. Visualisations are created from available structured data focusing on key performance metrics, and the platform is designed to ensure that there are never “too many” KPIs for clear, informational awareness.
Now that we have reached a new digital age of real-time data analysis and information management, a dashboard can be the beating heart of many modern businesses. Simaxx aims to be a flexible dashboard platform that can be adapted to suit each business perfectly.
Creating Dashboards
Creating and editing dashboards is easy and intuitive using the configuration toolset. Dashboards are arranged in a browser ‘tab’ format, and then ‘widget’ elements are added to a page using the ‘What You See Is What You Get’ functionality.
Intuitive symbols and a straightforward design allow any company to produce a custom analytics dashboard, even without a dedicated IT Team. From line charts to average revenue and cash flow reports, everything follows a logical flow.
Sharing Content
Simaxx dashboards can be created for personal use or shared with all users of a site. Default views can be created for each site, along with a range of formatted reports – from a basic pie chart to a full breakdown of the data involved.
This could be marketing dashboards, net profit margin information, or even just line charts about the business property’s air quality. Information can be clearly communicated between business users.
Embedded Web Content
Simaxx dashboards can also be configured to contain embedded web content, whether this is a video clip or specific web content. This can also include associated web analytics from platforms such as Google Analytics, as well as information from a whole host of other platforms and/or monitoring devices related to your business’ current issues or focuses.
What is Data Dashboarding?
A data dashboard is a tool that businesses can use to perform quick analysis, tracking and displaying of a range of data, whether that means a single set of key points or multiple KPIs. These are often used to manage valuable information and gain insights into the business’ performance and general well-being.
The point of data dashboards is more than just to format data in a new way. Using a data dashboard can allow important metrics to tell a story or reveal deeper details about a company’s performance, often in ways that a normal analysis can’t.
This is because a data dashboard pools raw data onto the same page, allowing for direct comparisons and careful analysis that might reveal meaningful insights about the company’s health. By placing all of this visual information in a single place, analysis experts can focus on specific KPIs or points of data as needed.
Why is ‘dashboarding’ useful for managing key metrics for your CRE portfolio or campus of buildings?
A properly prepared data dashboard shows a huge range of real-time data all at once. Analytics dashboards can be ideal for managing all kinds of key metrics and key performance indicators, including those related to commercial real estate and building management.
With all of the benefits that a data dashboard can offer, it is easy to see why they are a valuable part of data analytics. Some common advantages of presenting data in this way include the following:
Data Presentation
Presenting your data through a data analytics dashboard can be important. Visual representations make a big difference when a business is trying to sift through a large pool of data, and a customized dashboard can be the perfect way to streamline the entire process.
If you present data in a structured and clear way, then it becomes much easier to refine the information you are being shown. Finding usable and practical information is a lot simpler when your data dashboard is presenting it as something you can easily understand, especially when you need to compare data across different metrics or monitoring sources.
While more direct methods like (bar charts or a column chart) can still be useful, they are more for demonstrating changes within a particular data set. A data analytics dashboard shows a huge range of information, all of which can be compared and contrasted as needed without making permanent changes to the original data itself.
One Central Location
Pooling all data into the same data dashboards can make it much easier to access specific data sets. Not only does this make it easier to compare them individually, but it also means that information is not spread out across bar charts, submitted forms, and raw data dumps that all require their own platforms or tools to examine.
Moving all the data into one place can be far more practical while also making it much easier to identify emerging trends or find actionable answers to business-related questions. A data analytics dashboard can facilitate a lot of important work, keeping information freely accessible without mixing it all up in a single big table.
The flexibility of data dashboards can make them ideal for any business or company in any industry, no matter how much hard data they have to sift through. They are customisable enough to be adapted for any niche, regardless of how much data is being managed and retained.
Informational Awareness
A big problem with data analytics is awareness. A single person can only be aware of so much information at once, and many companies have data in all kinds of platforms and storage mediums. Data analysis can be tough if the person doing the analysis does not actually know about all of the relevant data, let alone where to find it.
Data dashboards serve as a central hub for both raw and processed information, allowing for real-time monitoring of a huge range of data with very little downtime. By using a dashboard, you can place all data within the same easy-to-access system, regardless of how many data sources you rely on.
Business Intelligence
A good data analytics dashboard can contribute heavily towards business intelligence and problem-solving efforts, allowing any business to manage its data effectively and find solutions to its current problems or shortfalls.
Not only do analytical dashboards serve as a hub for this kind of work, but they can easily be adjusted or filtered to deal with specific types of information. This means that it becomes even easier to narrow down the data to deal with a specific problem or to conduct niche research on the health of a certain part of your business.
Not only that, but it is entirely possible to use a custom dashboard as a place to compare outside data to your own. For example, you may decide to compare your own data with that of your competitors or partner businesses, giving you even more versatility within the same dashboard system.
Actionable Insights
One of the biggest advantages of a data dashboard is the actionable answers it can provide. A lot of business intelligence goals revolve around solving specific process issues or shortcomings within a business, and a data dashboard can be the best way to turn raw data into a set of usable solutions or practical suggestions.
For example, a data analytics dashboard may highlight issues with your sales process that has harmed sales revenue or point out problems with your website traffic that can lead to you making adjustments to your digital marketing funnel. By turning information into an answer, a business can remain focused while dealing with new problems as they arise.
A data analytics dashboard should drive action. Being able to monitor so much information at once can make these dashboards incredibly versatile, opening up even more ways to refine your data and get answers or solutions that work for your business’s specific needs and problems.
How does Simaxx provide and support Dashboarding?
Simaxx provides the tools necessary for dashboard-based presentation of analytic data, allowing companies to produce their own data dashboards that are carefully built to work with that business’s specific needs and goals. Through Simaxx, the data analysis process can be streamlined even further.
The Simaxx database platform allows for easy collection of data from all kinds of sources, whether that is data monitoring tools or information input by hand. The database can be ideal for forming a data-first approach to any problems, allowing a business owner or building manager to make informed decisions about their current situation.
Given the flexibility of Simaxx, it is easy to approach the topic of building and property management with hard data backing up your choices. While many people feel that data dashboards are best used as a digital marketing and financial tool, they serve an invaluable role in the field of building management.
Using a Simaxx Data Dashboard
Simaxx data dashboards can be connected to a huge range of data sources and used for a wide variety of purposes. This kind of analytical dashboard is ideal for tackling immediate problems with a building or premises, but it can also serve as a long-term monitoring platform that allows the building manager to oversee day-to-day property safety and suitability.
For example, an air quality monitoring system may output data every hour about the total quality of the air in a building.
Whilst this data is useful on its own, a database system can provide insights into air quality alongside a huge range of other factors and KPIs, making it even easier to identify potential flaws in a ventilation system or other health risks.
Given the importance of keeping a building safe and comfortable for employees, this kind of analytical dashboard system can be more important than many people realise.
Gathering Key Performance Indicators
An analytics dashboard usually gathers all information into the same system, allowing data to be presented as needed. While this may sound like a small detail, the Simaxx system can be invaluable for following best practices and monitoring overall business health and safety standards.
Being able to gather so many different KPIs into the same system all at once – without cross-contaminating data or jamming everything into a single data format – makes a big difference. Easy access to this kind of data can make all the difference when you are seeing specific solutions or data-driven answers.
Data Dashboards and Business Management Systems
The Simaxx platform can easily be tied into an existing BMS or a range of other data management and monitoring tools. By doing this, Simaxx can become another core part of your building management methods, allowing for easy adaptation and improvement of whatever systems you are already relying on.
This becomes even more important when dealing with big data or highly precise information, where you can’t afford to completely replace an existing system. Simaxx can serve as an ancillary tool, using the same information as your BMS but providing varied and valuable data-driven options.
Use Simaxx to present Niagara data
We have introduced a Niagara toolset into the Simaxx platform, allowing for easy integration of any platform or system using Niagara. By doing this, we have enabled Simaxx to connect near-flawlessly with almost every BMS, requiring only the bare minimum of set-up time and effort.
This has enabled Simaxx to become a valued part of many business intelligence efforts and building management systems, whether it is being used as part of a simple question-answer format or to produce data-based reports and future predictions.
By presenting information in this way, it becomes much easier to dive deep into the potential problems facing a business property, pulling together a range of data from all kinds of monitoring sources and IoT devices.