From the course: Introduction to Business Analytics

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Reporting infrastructure

Reporting infrastructure

- There are a lot of moving parts in your business. Wouldn't it be nice if you had a weekly snapshot of all of the most important parts? Well, that's exactly what an effective reporting infrastructure can provide you. Now, the most common form of a reporting infrastructure is a dashboard. You see one every time you step behind the steering wheel in your car. This is actually a perfect analogy to make. When you are driving, what matters? Your car's dashboard shows you exactly what matters: how fast you're going, if you have any gas in your tank, if your engine is overheating, and the RPMs of your engine. At one glance, you can see if you're are speeding or about to run out of gas. This is the power of dashboarding. You don't have to stop the car to check on these metrics. They are right there at your fingertips. So the metrics on your car's dashboard: speed, gas, engine heat, et cetera, are all important to getting…

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