Dashboards and views are components that present information to
monitor and manage business operations and systems.
WebSphere® Business
Monitor Dashboards support a set of Views (dashboard components)
that, when grouped together, comprise Business Performance Management Dashboards. WebSphere Business Monitor dashboard client operates within WebSphere Portal environment. A dashboard is
created by first creating a portal page and then creating and assembling a
group of portlets (views) in that portal page.
WebSphere Business Monitor dashboards:
- Help to monitor and manage business performance
- Help executives retrieve information quickly and efficiently
- Allow executives to personalize the analysis and display of business performance
reports to focus on the key performance indicators (KPIs)
- Provide a graphical display of business critical information, using visual
cues, like color, to help improve problem determination and decision making
- Visualize performance data such as KPIs and metrics, which can be summarized
in reports and graphs
- Analyze and investigate business situations by using the drill-down capabilities
to trace situations to individual events and inspect event details
- Support actions and alerts that are part of managing business performance
Each view within a dashboard addresses a specific business-performance-management
function. The supported view types are: