Purpose of Executive Dashboards for Professional Services Professional Services organizations use Executive Dashboards to give leaders an easy way to analyze the top performance drivers of the company. When used as part of good business practices in Executive departments, a company can improve its strategic decisions and financial performance, and it can reduce the chances that key profitability inhibitors are not addressed in a timely fashion due to lack of insight to the underlying metrics.
Example of a Executive Dashboards for Professional Service Here is an example of an Executive Dashboard with revenue and expense trends and variances as well as client rankings.
Who Uses This Type of Visual report? The typical users of this type of visual report are: CEOs, COOs, CFOs, CROs and other top leaders. Other Reports Often Used in Conjunction with Executive Dashboards for Professional Services Progressive Executive departments sometimes use several different Executive Dashboards, along with profit & loss reports, KPI dashboards, project dashboards and detailed project reports, project forecast models, annual budget models and other management and control tools.
Where Does the Data for Analysis Originate From? The Actual (historical transactions) data typically comes from enterprise resource planning (ERP) systems like: Microsoft Dynamics 365 (D365) Finance, Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central (D365 BC), Microsoft Dynamics AX, Microsoft Dynamics NAV, Microsoft Dynamics GP, Microsoft Dynamics SL, Sage Intacct, Sage 100, Sage 300, Sage 500, Sage X3, SAP Business One, SAP ByDesign, Acumatica, Netsuite and others. In analyses where budgets or forecasts are used, the planning data most often originates from in-house Excel spreadsheet models or from professional corporate performance management (CPM/EPM) solutions.
What Tools are Typically used for Reporting, Planning and Dashboards? Examples of business software used with the data and ERPs mentioned above are:
- Native ERP report writers and query tools
- Spreadsheets (for example Microsoft Excel)
- Corporate Performance Management (CPM) tools (for example Solver)
- Dashboards (for example Microsoft Power BI and Tableau)
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