What is Dashboard ?

a dashboard is "an easy to read, often single page, real-time user interface, showing a graphical presentation of the current status (snapshot) and historical trends of an organization’s key performance indicators to enable instantaneous and informed decisions to be made at a glance."
For example, a manufacturing dashboard may show key performance indicators related to productivity such as number of parts manufactured, or number of failed quality inspections per hour. Similarly, a human resources dashboard may show KPIs related to staff recruitment, retention and composition, for example number of open positions, or average days or cost per recruitment.
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Reporting Tools

Reports now are a need of all of the companies and businesses and i think no company can live without reporting solutions .

So , we now will speak about reporting tools

This image show BI companies ..

Open source software

• Eclipse BIRT Project
• GNU Enterprise (reporting sub-package)
• JasperReports
• OpenOffice Base
• Pentaho
• SpagoBI

Commercial software

• ActiveReports
• Actuate
• Business Objects
• Birst
• BOARD
• Cognos BI
• Crystal Reports
• GL Wand
• ROBII
• I-net Crystal-Clear
• InetSoft
• Information Builders' FOCUS and WebFOCUS
• Infragistics NetAdvantage Reporting
• InstantAtlas
• Izenda Self-Service Reports
• JReport (from Jinfonet Software)
• List & Label
• LogiXML (Free & Commercial Versions)
• m-Power
• OBIEE
• Oracle Discoverer
• Oracle Reports
• Oracle XML Publisher
• OZ Report
• Proclarity
• QlikView
• REPCoder
• MicroStrategy
• SAS, as part of the BI Server suite.
• SQL Server Reporting Services
• Stimulsoft Reports
• Style Report
• Tableau
• Targit
• Windward Reports
• XLCubed
• Zoho Reports (as part of the Zoho Office Suite)

about me , i always love to use open source sofwares .