EspressDashboard

Additional features

Self-Service KPI Dashboards

Empowers business users to easily build and publish their own dashboards focused on Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) without requiring any programming knowledge.

Centralized File Management

Provides a single location to manage all files related to dashboards, reports, and data.

Ad-Hoc Query & Reporting

Offers a user-friendly interface that requires zero learning curve for users to create custom queries, reports, and charts on demand.

Shared Parameters

Allows defining global filter parameters on a dashboard that can be shared across multiple elements, ensuring uniform data views.

Unlimited Drill-down

Enables users to click on any data point to progressively explore more detailed information, drilling down into other charts, reports, maps, or even other dashboards with no depth limitations.

Element Linking

Facilitates interactivity by allowing a click on a data point in one dashboard element to propagate that value to other linked elements, automatically refreshing them with filtered data.

Space Efficient Folders

Groups related reports and charts into "folders" within a dashboard, enabling more information to be displayed compactly without clutter.

Real-time Refresh

Users can configure dashboards to automatically refresh data at specified time intervals, ensuring they always see the most current information.

Slide Show Mode

Allows a collection of dashboards to be run sequentially as a slide show, useful for automated data monitoring displays or professional presentations.

Flexible Display Formats

Dashboards can be displayed as static images for universal compatibility or as animated Flash for enhanced visual appeal (with user control over animation).

Over 30 Chart Types

Supports a wide variety of 2D and true 3D charts, with advanced 3D features like real-time pan/zoom, rotation, transparency, gradients, and light source modification.

Animated Flash Chart Export

Charts can be exported to Adobe Flash format with customizable animation and frame rates, alongside common image and PDF formats.

Reports with Embedded Charts

Create traditional tabular reports that can include grouping and have charts directly embedded within them.

Two Types of Maps

Easily plot data on interactive Google Maps or create and use customized SVG maps for geospatial data visualization.

Highly Scalable Architecture

Designed to scale effortlessly from a few users to thousands, supporting clustering and load-balancing for large enterprise deployments.

Robust Role-Based Security

Implements a strong security model that ensures only authorized users can access specific dashboards and views of data based on their assigned roles and permissions.

User Authentication & Permissions

Controls user access and what data is visible to them, minimizing the number of dashboard copies needed as data adapts to the user's security level.

Mobile Device Compatibility

Dashboards are viewable on-the-go from popular mobile devices like Apple iPads and iPhones.

KPI & Monitoring Alerts

Supports two types of alerts – visual feedback directly on the dashboard (dashboard alerts) and email notifications (monitoring alerts) when defined KPI thresholds are crossed.

Seamless Data Source Access

Can connect to virtually any data source, including JDBC/ODBC databases, JNDI, data warehouses, WSDL SOAP, Salesforce SOAP, text files, XML, Excel, Java class files, and EJBs.

Intuitive Drag and Drop Interface

Simplifies the process of building dashboards and reports with a user-friendly graphical interface.

Thin-Client Environment

The integrated Dashboard Builder operates efficiently in a lightweight thin-client environment.

Extensive Documentation & Tutorials

Provides comprehensive guides and video tutorials to assist users.