SAS BI Dashboard Features

The SAS BI Dashboard designer, version 4.3 or later, provides a new, interactive, and intuitive interface. Now you can drag and drop objects onto the dashboard that you are designing. You can also resize indicators by using your mouse. New features assist you in laying out dashboard content precisely. The designer now provides a real-time, what-you-see-is-what-you-get view of the dashboard while you are designing it. The dashboard designer also now provides many more indicator types to use in a dashboard, as well as new graph styles to enhance the appearance of indicators.

By using the dashboard designer, designers can create and design dashboards that consist of one or more indicators. For information about designing dashboards, see “Part 3. Designing Dashboards.”

By creating dashboards, designers provide data to their business users. Business users can view these dashboards in the SAS BI Dashboard viewer.

The SAS BI Dashboard viewer, version 4.3 or later, provides new features for bookmarking favorite dashboards and indicators, sharing comments with other business users about indicators in a dashboard, creating personalized alerts, and viewing data in a more interactive way.

It is easy to move between the dashboard designer and the new dashboard viewer. Designers can create a new dashboard, effortlessly view it in the dashboard viewer, and then quickly return to the dashboard designer again. Or, designers can use the Preview feature and view the dashboard and most of its features without leaving the dashboard designer at all.

For information about viewing dashboards, see “Part 2. Viewing Dashboards.”

SAS BI Dashboard continues to provide a portlet for viewing dashboards in the SAS Information Delivery Portal.

For information about viewing dashboards, see “Part 2. Viewing Dashboards.”