2 Visual Exploration
Exploration is the key to discovery. Style Intelligence's advanced dashboards allow end-users to freely probe and experiment within an easy-to-use, self-service environment. Users can inspect their data from a variety of angles, test and validate analysis methods, and simulate hypothetical business scenarios – all without the assistance of IT staff.
To understand the value of dashboards, consider some of the common needs expressed by business users:
• “I need to analyze data obtained from different sources in real-time, for example, data from an Excel spreadsheet and an Oracle database.”
• “I need to analyze live operational data, as well as historical data.”
• “I want to view selected portions of my data, without having to continuously resubmit a set of parameters and generate new reports.”
• “I need to analyze my data, and I understand the business, but I have no knowledge of how the data is stored.”
• “I need to perform interactive 'what-if' analysis on my data, for example, to test a hypothetical scenario by trying different inputs.”
Style Intelligence dashboards address all of these issues, allowing users to rapidly obtain answers to their own questions. Style Intelligence also provides the Visual Composer, a powerful tool that gives end-users the flexibility to create and prototype their own dashboards using simple drag-and-drop operations.
The following sections present Visual Composer, highlighting the exploratory capabilities of dashboards. For complete information about creating dashboards in Visual Composer, see Dashboard Design.
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