With the declaration that “dashboards are dead,” we see another example of vendors strongly suggesting that all new is “good” and all “old” quickly approaches obsolescence.
Declaration of such obsolescence does not make it so. Dresner Advisory Services survey data consistently records the high perceived importance and even criticality to elements considered foundational to any systems and data architecture—elements strategic to business enterprises such as reporting and dashboards (see the Research Insight “For More Business and Organizational Success, Prioritize Dashboards and Reporting”), as well as data warehousing.