SavvyData Announces New 'Dashing Dashboards' FileMaker Training

Learn how to go about creating graphical information dashboards for your FileMaker-centric solution. Once the exclusive purview of large corporations, the last few years interactive data visualization systems have become known and affordable to small and midsize organizations. The term Business Intelligence (BI) has come into widespread use only in the last 10 years; this class distills the current body of BI knowledge. We’ll describe the technical and business processes you’ll need to follow to implement visual dashboards, scorecards, and other decision support systems that monitor selected key performance indicators (KPIs).

Recommended for...

• In-house developers* responding to management’s requests

• Independent developers* wishing to provide additional functionality

• Managers* of developers of information visualization systems

(*attendees should be comfortable with FileMaker layout mode, calculation fields, and relating tables; the ‘Ace of Charts’ workshop as a prerequisite is highly recommended)

This 'Dashing Dashboards' class provides a revealing look into the current thinking and best practices around information visualization. We recognize our debt to the works of Alan Cooper, Jakob Nielsen, Donald Norman, Edward Tufte, Stephen Few, various CHI (computer-human interaction) groups, and other pioneers of datavis usability.

You’ll learn about designing effective information display and user interaction capabilities appropriate for your audience. Apply the best information design every time using the “three threes”—a convenient memory hook representing the distinctions between systems that:

• measure, monitor or manage performance metrics, for

• operations, tactical or strategic purposes.

Additional Topics Covered:

• Your Current Environment: assessing factors for success

• Dashboard Design Dogma: Simplicity, Usability, Efficacy, Interactivity

• Information Architecture Insight: how people perceive

• Focus on the Data: clean, normalized, usable, reliable

• Focus on the User: the right information in the right style to the right person

• Focus on the Purpose: serving the big picture by making sure the pieces fit

• Development Methods: tools, techniques, and templates

• Deployment Realities: caveats and provisos to anticipate

• Completion: tips to aid transition and closure

[color:brown]For more information or to register online

Please visit our training page at http://www.savvydata.com/datavis_dashboards.php,

Or contact:

Lee Lukehart <[email protected]>

Certified FileMaker Developer: v10/9/8/7

Expert FileMaker Trainer: v10/9/8/7

650.868.0882 mobile 415.480.4847 office

About SavvyData

SavvyData knows how to make data work smarter. The company builds custom database solutions and data-driven Web sites, empowering clients to collect, use, augment, analyze, transform and share this digital lifeblood called data. Ever the technologist mentors, SavvyData staff teach, write articles, and present at industry events. SavvyData is a division of Lifescope Inc., a 15-year old company based in the San Francisco Bay Area.

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