About dashboards

A dashboard is an interactive display that you can use to quickly and easily explore your business data. For example, you can perform the following tasks:

• View visual representations of the data (called visualizations) in the dashboard to make the data easier to interpret
• Sort and rearrange data in visualizations
• Perform manipulations, such as filtering and drilling, on the data to display only the information you are interested in
• Use pre-defined, presentation-quality formatting to quickly display your data in a visually striking way
• Share a dashboard through email, by linking to the dashboard, or by embedding the dashboard in a web page

To view dashboards, you must have the following privileges:

• Web Analyst privileges
• The Web Edit Dashboard and Web Run Dashboard privileges

In the image below, data in a dashboard is displayed using a Grid visualization, which contains profit data for each Call Center in a Region. Small profit values are displayed in red, mid-range profit values are displayed in orange, and large profit values are displayed in yellow.