Over the past several years I have been a part of numerous SharePoint projects and have been involved with the SharePoint community in a number of ways.  Through these experiences I have noted several common factors that may lead to an unsuccessful deployment of SharePoint to an organization’s business users. I often hear the same [...]

During a recent client engagement, at a global network power connectivity supplier, I ran into a common theme, one of which I have experienced many times over – providing visibility, transparency, and insight into their operations.  I was there to implement a data visualization environment into the manufacturing operations on several LCDs, within various functional [...]

Trending data can be a great way to predict and analyze the performance of any metric. There are many ways to represent data with a chart. However, the best chart type to display trending values is the line chart. Line charts are often seen as financial charts that are only useful to display upward and [...]

Dashboards have become strategic plans for nearly every organization today as a means for monitoring the entire business, used to convey relevant, oftentimes real-time statistical information, pertaining to a dizzying array of metrics and KPIs. Doesn’t it then make sense then that the most crucial part of their development actually happens before that? The all-important [...]