DSCO is the world’s most powerful Inventory Networking Platform, making it easier to see, share, and sell inventory from any source. They work with huge amounts of data, and they were finding it difficult to manage it all. Initially, they asked us to assist them in 2 ways: 1) Make an executive dashboard 2) Build customer facing business analytics for their retailers.
One of the first things we did was to sit down face-to-face with their executive team to determine their most important Key Performance Indicators (KPI’s). Once we determined their most important KPIs, we built an executive dashboard that was centered around their most important goals. The dashboard was a representation of their data that was easily discernible and relevant to those goals. We also created sub-dashboards that contained detailed information.
You see, a good executive dashboard is not just about technology; it’s about using technology to help make informed decisions. What we did was find the best targets and methods of visualization for their processes to help them use data in the most efficient ways to help them focus on what mattered most.
We are also building out a customer facing business analytics infrastructure that will allow their customers to access pre-built dashboards. We’ve also found from past experience building customer facing analytics that while the pre-built dashboards can handle a majority of the needs, they also will need custom analytics that are specific to a given customer. So, we’ve also provided the ability to build their own customer reports and dashboards.