Same-Period Variances – Two-Minute Demo

The same period Variances Dashboard is a great example of a dashboard that uses dataself's infinite drill down to yield comparative analytics, whether you're comparing sales, as in this example, or any other aspect of your business, such as General Ledger, Project Accounting, or any other data set. For example, the current dashboard compares sales for a selected month and year sliced by customer. Using the selection options on the far right, we could change that perspective to slice sales by salesperson or perhaps by item. Now here's the really fun part. Having sliced our results by item and noticed an item that's selling particularly well those wise potato chips, we might wonder which customers are primarily responsible for that spike in sales. Do we need to run another report to get those details? Absolutely not. By going back to the selection window, we could add a second column for dicing. Although there are plenty of options to choose from, we'll leave that default selection of customer. We'll then go up to the list of items and click on the plus sign to add that dicing option. The results appear in seconds. Agrolink Foods has increased their appetite for potato chips by over 65% from just over $97,000 this time last year to just over $161,000 this month. As good as that news is, the act of slicing and dicing into this data has also made us aware of a few clients who aren't doing so well in their chip buying, all highlighted in red and note. Although this particular dashboard provides two levels of slicing and dicing, you can add an unlimited number of drill down levels using any combination of data fields. With this kind of reporting flexibility, you're in control of the analytics sliced and diced exactly as you require.