> This is because Power BI tracks usage metrics and almost all dashboards are completely unused.
This is what I term the “dirty secret of BI” - for most organisations, most dashboards are unused, except by the teams creating them.
This is because reports need to be useful to be used, and most are not. In my opinion useful means one of:
1) Aiding people with actual decision making power to make decisions
2) Improving the ability of “front line” staff to complete their day to day tasks better
PowerBI and similar tools are poorly suited to the above because 1) requires mgmt to understand the data they are looking at, which is difficult without context in a grid of charts, and 2) requires a thoughtfully designed, fast UX that is basically impossible to deliver in a dashboard.
I’m now working on an open source BI tool, Evidence.dev (https://github.com/evidence-dev/evidence) which is targeted at these two use cases. It enables you to add context to data inline, design the UX for the use case, and is just fast.
This has nothing to do with the comment you replied to. Even the quote at the top of your comment is a quote from the article, and not from the parent.
This is what I term the “dirty secret of BI” - for most organisations, most dashboards are unused, except by the teams creating them.
This is because reports need to be useful to be used, and most are not. In my opinion useful means one of:
1) Aiding people with actual decision making power to make decisions
2) Improving the ability of “front line” staff to complete their day to day tasks better
PowerBI and similar tools are poorly suited to the above because 1) requires mgmt to understand the data they are looking at, which is difficult without context in a grid of charts, and 2) requires a thoughtfully designed, fast UX that is basically impossible to deliver in a dashboard.
I’m now working on an open source BI tool, Evidence.dev (https://github.com/evidence-dev/evidence) which is targeted at these two use cases. It enables you to add context to data inline, design the UX for the use case, and is just fast.
Previous discussions on HN:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35645464 (97 comments)
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28304781 (91 comments)