A Smart Dashboard is a program that will display robot data in structured report form with graphs and tables. The Smarter Dashboards help you by offering reports and an analysed view of the data in real time:

• Display selected data while the program is running, for direct insights and a live view into the organisations statistics and workflows.

• The data can be displayed as simple text fields or more elaborately in many other display types like graphs, dials and so on.

Managing Data Integrity

But how do you make sure the data is connected to the right sources, and manage data integrity? You can connect the Smartsheet directly into your database or ERP systems making them Smarter Dashboards.

And how do you ensure that the reports and dashboards are available to the right personnel so the data is understood in the correct context? Our Smartsheet consultants can help you integrate your systems into Smartsheet and help you tailor the reports to present an appropriate view for each team.

What is the benefit of dashboard in Smartsheet?

Business dashboards connect users with data at-a-glance in real time

Dashboards help you tailor a view of your data. At Smarter Business Processes we can help you surface the right information and present it to appropriate team members.

We can also help you to automate your smart dashboards to ensure prompt and streamlined reporting. And we can set up access for remote teams to view and add to the data even if they are offline, and staying in sync when they are able to reconnect.

Smartsheet Dashboards give data clarity and perspective

Helping you surface the right information at the right time, so you can make better decisions faster

Smartsheet Dashboards are a great way to get quick, visual status updates of any combination of your team’s work and projects.  See live summary reports of goals, get reminders of important deadlines and follow links to key documents – all in one customizable view.   Available as part of Smartsheet Business and Enterprise Plans.

Slice and analytical functions work well in smart sheets

Many customers ask – Is there a slicer in Smartsheet? Use slices to filter your table data. It enables you to focus on one data set at at time, by only including some of the rows and some of the columns. So yes there is a slicer and filter option in Smartsheet.

In Smartsheet you can also filter by any cell data type. This enables you to view and and analyse the smallest segments of the data for further clarity enabling informed decision making.

Plus the dashboards are customisable and interactive. So they can be used to show and track specific data content.

In addition you can connect the Smartsheet dashboards to enterprise data to give visibility and inform real time decision making.They provide a powerful real time view of critical data.

You can add widgets

Microsoft Power BI – Powerful interactive Smarter Dashboards

Integrate Smartsheet, Excel or Google Sheets or any combination with  Microsoft  Power BI to create powerful interactive graphical dashboards so you can make good decisions based on real time results. This is available as a Microsoft 365 cloud account add on.

Let us help you Design your Smarter Dashboards

Our expert consultants can help you set up your workflows and dashboards using the most suitable tool for the job,  transforming your company’s data into rich visuals for you to collect and organize and leaving you time to focus on what matters.

Stay in the know, spot trends as they happen, and push your business further.

Get in touch to arrange a free demo and consultancy call  to discuss your needs.  We’d love to hear from you.

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As we face yet another period of change, as business leaders, our ability to adapt to change and preparedness to be agile in our response to opportunities or threats has never been more key to our success.

To achieve this we need to have sharpened our business processes to the optimum so we have spare capacity to adapt to new opportunities.  

In the business world in the UK we are told that our workers are not as efficient as some of our European cousins.  I find that hard to believe, but if we accept it at face value, ok there are plenty of ways we can improve our Productivity and Processes and we see good examples of companies doing that in the UK and USA, every day. However we are also aware that there remain many companies who are still using the tools prevalent 20 years ago which struggle to collaborate, never mind do it on any platform and it be intuitive and easy to work with.

There are many business leaders who are embracing change and helping their workforce to find smarter ways of working. Yet many are still using the same old tools because they are familiar and not because they are the best, which is dramatically limiting the scope of their progress

Recommended Productivity and Efficiency Tools

As a company we are focussed on helping companies to improve their processes, making sure their workers (users) of IT solutions have the best and most intuitive tools to work with. Let us share our recommendations of great software that could help your company make a step change in Business Process improvement…. They are…. Below and all offer a free trial.

The range of Cloud based solutions grows daily but we recommend Smartsheet instead of Excel and Task lists/to do lists that don’t join up and collaborate.

Appsheet which offers the ability to build cost effective Mobile Apps in a day or two, that work on any device and deliver the exact solution you seek by conditional logic. Collaboration for the masses! Costed in £100’s not 10’s of £1000’s.

Data produced by these work management Apps should be viewed in Graphical dashboards so good decisions can be made, based on Real Time Results. Microsoft  Power Bi is one of those Graphical Apps that reads data from any Spreadsheet, so your management finger is on the pulse of your business ready to act on what you see.

For many workers travelling to work or to a meeting is the tradition, rather than best practise. Since our company started working with companies around the world, we have had to embrace the video conference and screen share world.  These tools have improved dramatically, speeding up decision and delivery times, and cutting down on travel time and costs and reducing our carbon footprint.

We currently recommend Zoom.us for conferencing and screen share but equally acknowledge that Skype, Webex, GoToMeeting and Join.me among others achieve good results. Alas Face time is still one to one… at the moment.

If we manage the changes that are affecting us, then we can seize new opportunities as they are presented.  In order to achieve this our Business Processes need to be fully optimised, allowing us to create in our organisations a culture of continuous innovation, safe in the knowledge that our Key Performance Indicators are telling us what we need to know… in Real Time.

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Take your work management to the next level and optimize your Smartsheet skills to efficiently manage work, collaborate effectively with your team, and automate workflows in Smartsheet.

• Live online bespoke training broken down into 1.5 hour modules at times to suit your busy schedule and pace from £450 / $650 for 4 sessions.
• One 2 One, not One to Many.
• Your own live dedicated assigned Smartsheet Accredited Trainer, for those who need more than just videos and recorded webinars.

Want to know how to;

• Integrate Smartsheet data into DocuSign to produce automated digital signature capture and filing ?
• Set up cool Sights Dashboards
• Export to Excel for easier analytics using ODBC driver linkage

These are just a few from our ‘pick ‘n’ mix’ selection of Training Modules.

See Case Studies and Testimonials from some of our  Training clients 

Select your Modules and Book Now to secure your place or Contact Us to discuss your detailed requirements, we’d love to hear from you

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