Posted By Yannis ~ 26th January 2012
I recently came across the Vizualize.me site and decided to give a try based on my LinkedIn account profile. I must admit that the idea is simple but brilliant. The site rapidly helps you turn your LinkedIn profile into a beautiful and meaningful set of charts and graphics highlighting your personal and professional data. Build and customize your own professional viz !
A recent survey said that HR and recruiters don’t want to spend more than 30 seconds reading a CV. Text resumes are easily boring and most of the times too prolific. Vizualizing your data should be the future way of promoting yourself.
Yannis
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Posted By Dashboard Spy ~ 12th December 2011
Hello Dashboard Spy readers!
Just a quick post to share a technique on finding lots of those ever-so-fascinating Magic Quadrant reports from Gartner.
A lot of you have been asking how I dig up the actual reports. Yes, they can be hard to find.
Here is the trick:
Companies that get mentioned favorably in the Gartner Magic Quadrant reports like to get the rights to distribute them. You can find them available for download in their websites. Most often you have to go through a registration process to get them but here’s a quick way to find them using Google.
We take advantage of a consistent “footprint” in the reports themselves. (remember all those pattern findng tricks we’d do back in the day to do screen scrapiing?).
Go to google and enter this into the search box:
“magic quadrant for” filetype:pdf
Yes, use the quotes.
Also, I like to pick the date range as “past year” – you can do this in the “advanced search” to get more recent results.
Try running the search and you’ll find direct links to many Magic Quadrant reports!
Enjoy this simple search technique! Hope it opens your mind to using “footprints” as a seach technique.
Here’s a link to simply click on:
Gartner Magic Quadrant Reports on Google
Hubert Lee
The Dashboard Spy
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Posted By Dashboard Spy ~ 29th November 2011
When I create wireframes for business intelligence dashboard projects, I don’t want any particular visual element to be “too catchy”. A wireframe should be low fidelity and not distract by being “too graphic”. However, it’s nice to pop in icons. The usual icon libraries are just too colorful and impactful. So, what do I use?
Here’s a great set of icons for wireframing. It’s a collection of 1000 icons done in greyscale. Here’s a look at the styling:
You can download the icon set from this link: Greyscale Icons (zip file)
Be sure to share your business intelligence dashboard wireframes, mockups and prototypes.
Regards
The Dashboard Spy
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Posted By Dashboard Spy ~ 22nd November 2011
Here’s a sweet find for you enterprise dashboard designers out there. You know how you are always on the look out for cool graphics for your business intelligence interfaces and enterprise dashboards? Well, get ready to do some downloading because I’ve found a nice free set of icons and graphics that you’ll want to incorporate into your business dashboards.
Click on the graphics to go to the download location.
Take a look at these dashboard alert boxes:
And here are some very nice dashboard navigation menus.
For more dashboard icons go to the main post here:
http://www.copyblogger.com/free-website-graphics
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Posted By Dashboard Spy ~ 8th November 2011
This Gartner Report, Top Predictions for IT Organizations and Users 2011 and Beyond: IT’s Growing Transparency (link is direct PDF), is quite thought provoking.
Among their predictions:
Top End-User Predictions for 2011
- By 2015, tools and automation will eliminate 25% of labor hours associated with IT services.
- By 2015, 20% of non-IT Global 500 companies will be cloud service providers.
- By 2015, 80% of enterprises using external cloud services will demand independent certification that providers can restore operations and data.
- By 2015, new revenue generated each year by IT will determine the annual compensation of most new Global 2000 CIOs.
- By 2015, information-smart businesses will increase recognized IT spending per head by 60%.
- By 2015, most external assessments of enterprise value and viability will include explicit analysis of IT assets and capabilities.
- By 2015, companies will generate 50% of Web sales via their social presence and mobile applications.
- By 2015, a G20 nation’s critical infrastructure will be disrupted and damaged by online sabotage.
- By 2014, 90% of organizations will support corporate applications on personal devices. By 2013, 80% of businesses will support a workforce using tablets.
- By 2015, 10% of your online “friends” will be nonhuman.
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