05.06.08
Dashboards: The New Face of Reporting from DM Review
Interesting perspective from Shadan Malik at iDashboards on utilizing dashboards for reports vs. reporting.
A subtle yet important difference lies between reporting and a report. While reporting connotes the gathering of textual and numeric data, a report is a representation of this information. For example, with regard to a manufacturing company that gathers an array of information about its supply chain, a report would be generated as a spreadsheet encompassing data collected by the different relevant areas of the business. The process with which this data is collected and displayed is the manufacturing company’s reporting technique. The importance of this difference emerges when considering the many forms of reporting, which are currently transforming the use of reports within businesses across all sectors. More