BIS Web Intelligence (Week 4)

• Schedule/Standard
• Key-indicator
• Exception
• Drill-down
• Ad-hoc

• Produced at predefined intervals (weekly,monthly)
• support routine operations in org.

Provide a summary of critical information on recurring basis

Highlight data out of normal operating range

Provide details behind summary values on key-indicator/exception reports

Unplanned information requests in which information is gathered to support non-routine decision

Case--mixed upper, lower and use conventional punctuation

Spacing--double spacing if space permits. Place blank line between parag.

Justification--left text, ragged right margin

Hyphenation--no hyphenate words btw lines

Abbreviations--use abbreviations and acronyms only when they are widely understood by users and are significantly shorter than the full text

• Soothes/strikes eye
• Accents an uninteresting display
• Facilitates subtle discriminations in complex displays
• Emphasizes logical organisation of information
• Draw attention to warnings
• Evokes more emotional reactions

• Color pairings may wash out or cause problems for some users (Color blindness)
• Resolution may degrade with different displays
• Printing/conversion to other media may not easily translate

• Use meaningful labels
• Format columns, rows and text
• Format numeric, textual and alphanumeric data

• All columns and rows should have meaningful labels
• Labels should be separated from other information by using highlighting
• Redisplay labels when data extend beyond single screen or page

• Sort in meaningful order
• Columns and rows should be spaced so information is easily read
• Allow white space on display
• Avoid overly fancy fonts

• Right justify numeric data
• Left justify textual data
• Break long sequences of alphanumeric data into small groups of 3-4 characters each

• Tables for reading individual data values
• Graphs for:
• Quick summary of data
• Detecting trends over time
• Comparing points and patterns of different variables
• Forecasting activities
• Reporting vast amount of information when relatively simple impressions are to be drawn

Retrieve subset of available data based on filter definition

• Retrieve and focus only on data you need
• Hide data from people when they access the document
• Minimize quantity of data returned to document to optimize performance

• Predefined
• Single and multi-value
• Prompted
• Complex

Built into the universe