Question

I am a BusinessObjects Desktop Intelligence (XIR2) report developer and there is a need at my work for a dashboard showing measurements of the firm towards meeting budgets and trend analysis, etc. I am seeking any input on suitable software (both paid and free) that will achieve this.

Ideally we would like the software to be integrated into a custom windows form application that we have developed (DotNet 3.0), so something that can be integrated into Visual Studio 2008 would be great, but if there are any recommendations for standalone applications that are forms or web based then this would be greatly appreciated.

We would want an application that makes use of traffic lights to highlight trouble areas, gauges (such as speedo), worm lines or similar trend visual representations.

I am an experienced report developer and am wanting to expand my knowledge into more statistics and visual analysis of data, so my knowledge of statistics is very green so I appologise in advance if I have mis-used any language.

Thanks,

Matt

Answer 1

Try taking a look at Dundas components. Looks like they have tight integration with .NET.
Business Objects also has a dashboard builder. I am not sure why you are not using that if you already have the BO skills

http://support2.dundas.com/

-Ralph Winters