Indicator charts help to emphasize important data metrics and highlight whether they are trending up or down. It’s a compact way of showing what is most important.
Using Ruly, it’s easy to add indicators to your applications and dashboards. Indicator charts are one of the many tools that Ruly features to help aid your business’ productivity.
On the Ruly platform, there are three different types of indicator charts that you can use.
1. Single Value
The first type is the single value indicator chart. This type of chart displays a comparison. It shows a single value in bold and a previous value in faint text. Next to these numbers, there is an up or down arrow with a percentage, comparing the data.
This type of chart is very useful to observe trends in your business, such as how your company’s revenue is compared to last year. Or to compare the number of sales between this month and last month.
This sample sales app shows two single value indicator charts. One calculating a comparison between the total revenue produced by opportunities this month. And one calculating the total revenue produced by opportunities this year.
2. Count
The second type is a count indicator chart. This type of chart shows a single number count. This indicator will count data and display the number. This indicator chart view is a simple and convenient way to view your company’s data.
Possible uses for this chart type could be to display the number of open tasks, upcoming renewals, and more depending on what is helpful to your company.
This sample sales app displays three count indicator charts. One counting the number of won opportunities this year, one for active opportunities, and another counting active campaigns.
3. A Chart Displaying an Indicator
The third type is a chart that displays an indicator over top. This is where there is a different style of chart, such as a line or bar, but in the settings, it is selected to show an indicator overtop of the chart.
This type of chart can be defined as a chart with an indicator rather than an indicator chart.
The indicator overtop is the same as the count indicator chart. It shows a single number count.
Having an indicator over a chart that is calculating the same thing is a very useful and organized way of including an indicator if you want to see how previous data compares to the current data.
For example, in the sample sales app, there is a line chart calculating the number of opportunities by the close date. In the chart, you can see how the number of opportunities varies by month. Overtop of this visual aid is an indicator calculating the total number of opportunities.
There is also a line chart calculating the expected revenue per month. Overtop is an indicator of the total sum of expected revenue.
There is also a bar chart calculating the revenue of active opportunities. The bar chart visually displays how much revenue is expected from opportunities at each active stage. Overtop is an indicator that has calculated the total expected revenue from these opportunities.
For more information about using and creating indicator charts on the Ruly platform contact me at nicole.marsden@rulyapp.com