Comments on: Dissecting Dashboards (Part 4 of 6) http://sharepointmagazine.net/articles/dissecting-dashboards-part-4-of-6 Your Premier Source of SharePoint Information Tue, 27 Sep 2011 09:39:55 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 By: ess http://sharepointmagazine.net/articles/dissecting-dashboards-part-4-of-6#comment-1034 ess Thu, 19 Nov 2009 04:29:24 +0000 http://sharepointmagazine.net/?p=3675#comment-1034 Has Part 5 been written? If not, when is the ETA? Has Part 5 been written? If not, when is the ETA?

]]> By: steve_gs http://sharepointmagazine.net/articles/dissecting-dashboards-part-4-of-6#comment-1033 steve_gs Wed, 05 Aug 2009 20:47:59 +0000 http://sharepointmagazine.net/?p=3675#comment-1033 This is probably going to sound naive and simplistic, but what if you add another automated KPI which is a constant minutes in the day? Then you can take the difference of all the minutes in a month and downtime events time divided by total time, which is the goal you seek. (Alternatively, the formula could be 1 - (sum of downtime)/(sum of totaltime), which would yield you a rolling month-to-date calculation. Control inclusion based on matching month to current (or prior) month? This is probably going to sound naive and simplistic, but what if you add another automated KPI which is a constant minutes in the day? Then you can take the difference of all the minutes in a month and downtime events time divided by total time, which is the goal you seek. (Alternatively, the formula could be 1 – (sum of downtime)/(sum of totaltime), which would yield you a rolling month-to-date calculation. Control inclusion based on matching month to current (or prior) month?

]]> By: cjacobs13 http://sharepointmagazine.net/articles/dissecting-dashboards-part-4-of-6#comment-1032 cjacobs13 Wed, 22 Jul 2009 10:28:59 +0000 http://sharepointmagazine.net/?p=3675#comment-1032 Hello,<br><br>I am trying to figure out if Dashboard Designer is the cure for my problem...<br><br>Currently have Excel worksheet with one row for each day. One column is "total outage minutes". This is manually entered from one or more downtime events. Another column calculates the uptime percentage: if there was a 2 minute outage then it gives a result of 99.86% for that day (1438 minutes up out of 1440 minutes in a day). It also has a calculated cell that give the average for all days in the month.<br><br>This system is being replaced with a sharepoint list, so there will be days with one or more events (rows) that contain outage information. There will also be days with no outage information (no list items created).<br><br>Having a hard time understanding how to calculate the average monthly uptime, because my KPI average only runs against the data that exists, it doesn't account for the days when no downtime events occur. In Excel, this was just a row where "0" was manually entered for that date. The goal is to have this information fully automated, not have a person manually enter a row of data for each day that did not have an outage.<br><br>What's happening is: if in a given month there are three downtime events (say they are 2 minutes each) , the KPI averages 99.86% - (99.86 * 3) /3 - but over a 30 day period the average should be 99.986. Also, not all months have 30 days, so how is that handled?<br><br>I'm not even sure if we have Dashboard Designer available yet (I just read that it is being integrated with SP3), so I haven't been able to test this out, but want to know if I am looking in the right direction. Is the problem I described handled by setting the Time dimension? Hello,

I am trying to figure out if Dashboard Designer is the cure for my problem…

Currently have Excel worksheet with one row for each day. One column is “total outage minutes”. This is manually entered from one or more downtime events. Another column calculates the uptime percentage: if there was a 2 minute outage then it gives a result of 99.86% for that day (1438 minutes up out of 1440 minutes in a day). It also has a calculated cell that give the average for all days in the month.

This system is being replaced with a sharepoint list, so there will be days with one or more events (rows) that contain outage information. There will also be days with no outage information (no list items created).

Having a hard time understanding how to calculate the average monthly uptime, because my KPI average only runs against the data that exists, it doesn't account for the days when no downtime events occur. In Excel, this was just a row where “0″ was manually entered for that date. The goal is to have this information fully automated, not have a person manually enter a row of data for each day that did not have an outage.

What's happening is: if in a given month there are three downtime events (say they are 2 minutes each) , the KPI averages 99.86% – (99.86 * 3) /3 – but over a 30 day period the average should be 99.986. Also, not all months have 30 days, so how is that handled?

I'm not even sure if we have Dashboard Designer available yet (I just read that it is being integrated with SP3), so I haven't been able to test this out, but want to know if I am looking in the right direction. Is the problem I described handled by setting the Time dimension?

]]> By: Office 2010 Technical Preview, Stephen Elop on Google & More, Microsoft Launches Silverlight 3 - SharePoint Daily - Bamboo Nation http://sharepointmagazine.net/articles/dissecting-dashboards-part-4-of-6#comment-1031 Office 2010 Technical Preview, Stephen Elop on Google & More, Microsoft Launches Silverlight 3 - SharePoint Daily - Bamboo Nation Mon, 13 Jul 2009 13:04:49 +0000 http://sharepointmagazine.net/?p=3675#comment-1031 [...] Dissecting Dashboards (Part 4 of 6) (SharePoint Magazine)We’ve talked about scorecards and KPIs, now it’s time to put it all together and build a dashboard. I will be using PerformancePoint as my tool of choice because as of Office 14, it will be included with MOSS and, as I’ve mentioned before, I kinda like it! Our plan of attack will be as follows: [...] [...] Dissecting Dashboards (Part 4 of 6) (SharePoint Magazine)We’ve talked about scorecards and KPIs, now it’s time to put it all together and build a dashboard. I will be using PerformancePoint as my tool of choice because as of Office 14, it will be included with MOSS and, as I’ve mentioned before, I kinda like it! Our plan of attack will be as follows: [...]

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