Wednesday, January 12, 2011

Creating a Management Dashboard with Google Apps in 10 minutes

Creating a Management Dashboard with Google Apps in 10 minutes: "

All of us have had situations in which, the enterprise that we are working with, would like to have quick snapshots of the various metrics on the dashboard. These should not only be readily available, but also be refreshed with real data in real-time so that the latest on the health of the organization/business is at the fingertips.

We had a similar situation when we were working with a large chain of restaurants in UK. The idea of the project sponsor was that as soon as the manager of a particular restaurant enters the dashboard, he should be able to see all the statistics which would make him take instant decisions. An often used way is to create charts using tools like JFreeChart and extract data from the database to fill up the dashboard.

Fortunately for us (since the client had already gone Google with Google Apps) the use of Google Sites and Google Spreadsheet made the job pretty easy. Let us look at what the situation looked like for us.

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