Over the past several years, the number of healthcare applications built at Dimensional Insight on Diver Platform has exploded. We now have 15...
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What You Need to Know About President Biden’s Marijuana Pardon
On October 6th of this year, President Biden publicly pardoned people held in federal prisons for the crime of smoking marijuana. There were three...
How to Ace this Year’s OND
Everyone knows that October-November-December (OND) is a critical time of year for companies selling wine, spirits, and beer. OND is rapidly...
Why move your analytics to the cloud?
If you ask most anyone about moving their software to the cloud, they'll not only know what you are talking about, more often than not, they will be...
The role of a salesperson is challenging, but whose job isn’t. Right?
The typical salesperson spends 80% of his or her time out of the office. There are trade shows, customer visits, and of course, transit times to...
How You Can Better Visualize Your Data
If you think about it for a moment, the purpose of visualizations is to communicate information effectively. And you want to do that in ways that...
A Day in the Life of Rosalie: How a Customer Uses DiveTab
We tout the benefits of our DiveTab mobile product, but what is it actually like in action? For our customers who use DiveTab, it’s a critical tool...
How to use HSRIC to Enrich Your Healthcare Data in Diver
If you follow our blog, you know I typically write articles about dashboard design. However, now we have expanded this topic to “Getting More Out of...
Back to Basics: 5 Things to Think about When You Create a Dashboard
Your organization has invested a lot of time and money collecting data and wants to get some useful information out of what you’ve collected. In the...
A Cool Tool for Experimenting with Dashboard and Portal Color Schemes
Year after year, our web site visitors have shown a great deal of interest in an article I wrote about a tool that can be used to explore color...
Meet Dimensional Insight’s Top Dashboard Designer, Zhenggang Hu
Many of our customers have commented recently on how beautiful our new application interface designs look. But do they know who is responsible for...
How to Best Support Your Salespeople
The role of a salesperson is difficult. Salespeople are often challenged with less than perfect working environments, yet they are expected to excel...
Visual Standards in Dashboard Design
People often confuse design with style. But this is misguided. They do not mean the same thing. Design principles do not change. Yet style is...
How to Get a Fresh Dashboard Look and Feel
In January, I conducted our company’s bi-monthly customer webinar and talked about some best practices for dashboard design. I also presented a new...
Designing a Print-Ready PDF in PrintDP
Last year, I wrote an article, How to Design a Print-Ready DivePort Page, which outlined the steps one should take to create a PDF from DivePort...
3 Ways to Brush Up Your Dashboard Design Skills
In the past, I’ve focused on visual design tips in my Dashboard Design column. However, response from our recent customer webinar on dashboard...
How to Create a Dashboard Design Look Book (#2 in a Series)
In my last blog post, I talked about how create a specific dashboard that would help you save time on design. Now in this post, I will take a look...
How to Create a Dashboard Design Look Book (#1 in a Series)
In the past, I’ve written articles about dashboard design at a conceptual level, dispensing advice about how much white space to use or sharing...
How to Ensure Your Sales Team is Making Its End-of-Year Numbers
Your sales team isn’t selling and it’s starting to irritate you. For beverage alcohol companies, this is the busiest time of year. Heck, OND...
How to Select Charts for Effective Data Display
Today’s dashboard environments provide dashboard designers with a rich set of indicators and charts, ranging from bullet graphs to spark lines to...