Dashboard Development Process

Post Author: Roy Varghese
CA Forum: Performance Management and Dashboards
Hi,
We are planning to implement dashboards using Dashboard Manager. I was looking for the following
Any standard requirement gathering process/template for dashboarding?
Standard development process to build dashboards?
Best practices for dashboard development?
We are currently on BO 6.5, is that a good enough platform for dashboard development or is migration to BO XI necessary?
Time estimates to develop dashboard for 4-5 metrics? Any process to come up with time estimation?
I would really appreciate your help.
Regards,
Roy

Hi Aman,
I understand that and will post here some locations where you can find out the reference guides!
Also will try to get a brief about the material I have with me!
About the SAP recommendation, it will depends on our environment, how many users, what level of integration do you need, need integration with other Office tools, questions like that need to be answered in order to better provide you an answer!
Talking about my experience, I can say that Crystal is a very good tool to provide enhancements for the reports and also give us some more possibilities!
But as it´s not a requirement to have Crystal, it´s quite hard to say what is the SAP recommendation! Also, Crystal will need to be licensed separeted from GRC products!
Regards,
Claud

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