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The term
dashboards
usually denotes the use of a graphical image to represent data. There
are typically two types of dashboards:
• Static
• Interactive
Static dashboards
Static dashboards present an image of the report but does not provide an interactive mech-
anism. These types of dashboards are similar to charts you create with data in a spreadsheet
program (for example, Microsoft Excel).
Interactive dashboards
Interactive dashboards are similar to static dashboards but provide the ability to traverse
from the initial dashboard to other dashboards or data tables. This process is commonly de-
scribed as a drilldown.
In either case the dashboard is a final output of the report creation process. The following
figure provides an example of an incident management process dashboard:
The incident management dashboard presented in the preceding figure has the following
dashboard sections:
•
Incidents Opened Today
•
Incidents Closed Today
