Analytics

Over the last 6 months, we’ve covered a number of best practices—all targeted to make your Vista Analytics more impactful, more useful, and ultimately more effective. We started with the planning of your analytic, making sure you know its intended audience and purpose. From there, we covered a number of topics involved in creating analytics.…

This is the penultimate article in our Vista Analytics Best Practices series. And, technically, it’s not even an article about analytics best practices. Rather, this is a shameless promotion for an upcoming blog series that will come out in the new year. This new series will focus on how to marry internal employee surveys with…

You’ve finally gotten your analytic looking great (lights), you have it on a dashboard in front your target user (camera), and… then what? An analytic has a certain amount of value if it provides your manager with some new information, but “Hm, that’s interesting” only gets you so far. What really gets your analytic in…

As with any system, analytics must perform their function(s) properly. Without good form (aesthetics), they won’t perform as well as they should, and users will be less than satisfied with them. Vista Analytics, in particular, have a number of features that you can take advantage of to improve their aesthetics and hence overall functionality. Here…

When you create Vista Analytics, you decide what data is returned to the person using it. If you are designing analytics for others, make sure that you’ve secured them so they’re only available to the people who should see them. Furthermore, make sure those people can only see the data they should be seeing. Your…

Data is the heart of analytics. In Vista, that means data from your Vista SQL database. PDS provides predefined views, functions, and procedures, making much of that data easy to access. However, there are times when your data needs (what you need and the way you need it) are more involved. If you’re database-savvy, there’s…

Vista Analytics allows you to feed different variations of the same data into its grid and graph display formats. You can even specify an additional configuration for its Excel output. Why not take the extra time to consider how each output type can best express your data, making it most impactful? As an example, let’s…

In the last article, we reviewed how graphs are an ideal format to convey information at a glance. But if you’re going to render your analytics in graphical form, which graph type should you use? Does it matter? Are they interchangeable? Well, yes and no. They are interchangeable to a degree, but even so it…