The BI Dashboard Designer & Viewer is the most extensive addition to OneStream XF 5.2. Dashboarding has been labor-intensive in previous releases, due to the building and maintenance of it. Building a dashboard required many components to be linked together, making it quite maintenance intensive. The promise is that this will all change soon…

The BI Viewer is a new dashboard component, which is a BI dashboard builder on its own. Due to the extensive functionality, to our opinion, it could have been more convenient to have a separate menu item in the presentation menu.

Our test and research results:

• A dashboard with several dashboard items to show your data, can quickly and easily be created via drag-and-drop.
• Next to basic chart types like bar, line and scatter there are some interesting possibilities to visualize your data.
• Gauges can communicate 2 values (the needle and the marker scale) and can be represented in a (semi-)circle or as a bar.

• Range filters are presented as a bar charge. They can apply date filters to other dashboard items by using the slider.

• Grid shows data like an excel table with the use of icons and sparkline charts. The layout can be defined by column. Please note that for delta calculation, Grid is bound to two measures.

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