Visual KPI is mobile BI (business intelligence) software. It's also the ability to get your valuable data in front of more users and monitor real-time operations data on any device. You can quickly create and deliver KPIs, alerts, trends and analytics from multiple data sources, and it can be deployed in hours, not months. Want to see how we do it?
Visual KPI is mobile dashboard software for any device. It reads existing data sources and delivers KPIs, scorecards, analytics and alerts in real-time.
Decision makers. Operations. Remote workers. Data Junkies. Anyone who values knowing what's happening right now, regardless of their device.
Mobility is no longer optional. Visual KPI presents problems and opportunities before it's too late. Oh, and there's no six-month project that "might" pay off.
Posted by Michael Saucieron Wednesday, April 18, 2012 at 5:26AM
Next week is a big one for us here at Transpara. It's time for the annual OSIsoft Users Conference in San Francisco, CA and we are proud to be the platinum sponsor.
As you may know, many of our customers rely on OSIsoft PI and other real-time data historians as a primary master source of data and we do too (our mobile bi demo sites all run PI and SQL Server).
Over the past couple of weeks we put together the following video to showcase Visual KPI for all of the attendees. It will be on the TVs in the hotel rooms, at our booth in the partner area, and anywhere else they will let us show it.
Let us know what you think, and please stop by to say hello if you will be at the event!
Posted by Robert Hyltonon Tuesday, March 13, 2012 at 4:43AM
We're really cranking out the videos this month, and here's another. This time, it's a tutorial on how to specify default and override formatting of numbers and how to add units of measure to these numbers. As you can see, it is quite easy and the possibilities are almost endless.
Oh, and your formatting and UOM carry all the way through alerts and the rest of the system. Enjoy!
Posted by Robert Hyltonon Monday, March 12, 2012 at 8:49AM
Here's a quick video of some new features related to customizing the status of your KPIs in our mobile BI web app. See our release notes or the Transpara YouTube channel for more new features.
Two New States KPI status colors were always customizable, but now we have added more KPI status options (now you have 10 possible states - default names of the new ones are High High High and Low Low Low). Speaking of naming...
Custom Status Names You can now rename each of the KPI states, which is a big step for those customers who use their own terms for states. Instead of High High you can use 'Critical' or 'Spectacular' or even 'Hot.' Oh, and these names extend through to alerts and every other part of the application.
Custom Status Icons Base on the request of one of our earliest customers, we have added a small library of status icons so you can choose your own for each state. For some people an up arrow means High while to others it may mean North. Now you can choose from all of the basics and even some fun ones like a thumbs up icon, question marks and so on.
Here's a quick video we threw together showing off the new options:
Already a customer? Just upgrade to the latest version, or contact us to walk you through it.
Posted by Robert Hyltonon Monday, March 5, 2012 at 3:19AM
All new mobile alerting software includes customizable alert content, escalating alerts with multiple contacts and groups, and alert templates to improve flexibility and save time during configuration.
Since we first released Visual KPI in 2006, alerting and alarms has been an important feature and one that sets our prouct apart from many other mobile BI software products. Several of our customers have even used Visual KPI to eliminate dedicated alerting software (which we are quite proud of we must admit). Well, its just like our software developers to never leave things alone for long and this time they targeted the Visual KPI alerts feature and rebuild the entire thing. Let's have a look at a video and then some details below that:
The new alerts feature includes the following:
Alert Templates - these let you set up an unlimited number of alert types (what statuses to alert on, when, time in state, reminders, etc.) and then apply them to individual KPIs with a simple drop down. You can now apply different alert scenarios to hundreds of KPIs in just seconds.
Custom Alert Content - We have always prided ourselves on providing more that 'something went wrong' types of alerts and providing context in the alert message itself (and that ever-so-valuable link to the real-time trend) and now you can choose what you want to appear right in the alert template. Content options include Alert History, Limits, Source Tag (for historians like OSIsoft PI, GE Proficy, Wonderware Historian and Aspentech IP.21), KPI attributes and what groups the KPI is a member of. All of this is done with a quick true/false setting in the Visual KPI Designer.
Escalating Alerts - You can now choose to alert multiple people or groups of people based on alert conditions. For example, you might want to alert just operators or line staff if a KPI goes into a 'high' condition, but alert supervisors if 'High high' is reached and the plant manager if it reaches a critical state. There are three contacts (or groups) associated with each KPI.
Posted by Robert Hyltonon Wednesday, February 29, 2012 at 1:00AM
Last September (or was it October?) we released a powerful new mobile BI feature called 'GeoMaps' that let you view any type of data or object on a map, using any device. You can see a video about GeoMaps here. People have responded to this feature in droves and seem to love it, but we always considered just half finished. We are pleased to report that with Visual KPI version 4.10.2.572 we have completed the other half...
'Near Me' further blurs the line between an installed app and a web app by using your smartphone or tablet's GPS from the browser to visualize your data in the context of your current location. Simply put, it lets you filter anything in your system by what is "Near Me."
Here's a quick video of the feature in action:
This new feature can be used in combination with GeoMaps (to map the data near you) or on its own (e.g. a list of KPIs sorted by their distance from you) and it takes advantage of the W3C Geolocation API so most newer smartphones and tablets (iOS - iPhone/iPad, Android, BlackBerry OS 6+) already support it and just about every new device being released does as well. It even works with some desktop browsers like Google Chrome, Firefox and Opera, using your IP address to provide an approximate location (unless you have a PC with a GPS in it).
Configuration is very simple. Once you assign GIS coordinates (latitude and longitude) to any object in the system via the Designer, just go to the features tab and turn on 'Near Me.' That's it. Using the feature is just as easy: from your phone, tablet or browser using Visual KPI, just click the filter icon and below the status filters you will see the option to filter by location. Choose the distance and the unit of measure (e.g. feet, meters, miles or kilometers) and say ok.
We have quite a few customers who helped us define this feature (you know who you are, and thanks!) and we look forward to getting more feedback from the rest of you.
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