Sales Dashboard

Data-driven applications are crucial for delivering important business insights, which are now part of any online enterprise. Customers tend to utilize single interactive and intuitive user interfaces to visualize their data. Moreover, the informational dashboards are increasingly being used in tracking everyday activities such as summary of current usage, cost and balance of an online account, daily test reports or fitness exercise statistics.

In this article, we tackle a common data visualization task – creating a sales dashboard. A sales dashboard is widely used in business presentations, to outline key performance indicators for a given business process or objective. Key to any such presentation is the good visualization of the data, as well as a polished appearance. Naturally, each sales dashboard application is different and may vary greatly. The approach demonstrated in this article employs some of the most widely used components in such scenarios.