Visualization Standards Improve Business Intelligence Project Success
October 22, 2013 by Analytics Blog Contributor
by Anita Gibbings, Director, BI Product Marketing,
SAP
http://blogs.sap.com/analytics/2013/10/22/visualization-standards-improve-business-intelligence-project-success/....Convey Information Clearly with Collective Insight for Faster More Accurate Decisions
There are additional benefits when an entire company standardizes around
one set of visualization rules – it creates alignment along measures (sales,
costs), dimensions (regions, time), analyses (average, rank), and others. Each
measure has a common definition at the corporate level, and by using a common
set of visualization standards, users throughout the company will learn to
recognize and grasp the meaning very quickly.
Sales will look the same no matter which country, which division, or
which year. It’s like a piece of sheet music. The notes for each song are
unique (as is every company’s numbers), but music sheets can be read easily by
anyone with training since it’s laid out by certain rules. You can’t change the
number of lines on the staff or invent new ways of showing one beat or four
beat notes.
Likewise, conveying information clearly across an organization through a
standard language drives faster, more accurate, and profitable decisions....
