Real-time KPI dashboards for management

Purpose

1.1. Enable management to access live performance metrics, sales data, and inventory analytics for decision-making.
1.2. Aggregate data from POS, eCommerce, and customer feedback for holistic visibility.
1.3. Visualize key trends (sales, inventory, customer demographics, popular genres) to guide business direction.
1.4. Deliver real-time alerts on anomalies (e.g., sales surges, low stock, staff performance).
1.5. Automate recurring reports, replacing manual compilation with live dashboards.

Trigger Conditions

2.1. New sale is registered at POS or online store.
2.2. Inventory count changes (refill, depletion, returns).
2.3. New customer review or NPS entry.
2.4. Scheduled intervals (e.g., every 15 minutes) for data refresh.
2.5. KPI thresholds crossed (e.g., dipping below forecasted sales).

Platform Variants

3.1. Microsoft Power BI
• Feature: DirectQuery to SQL database, streaming datasets.
• Setting: Configure refresh on "Sales Transactions" table every 5 minutes via API.

3.2. Google Data Studio
• Feature: Data connectors for Google Sheets/MySQL.
• Setting: Link Sheets with eCommerce exports; auto-refresh using App Script triggers.

3.3. Tableau
• Feature: Web Data Connector, Tableau Bridge.
• Setting: Webhooks from POS to refresh dashboards.

3.4. Klipfolio
• Feature: REST/SQL connectors, push API.
• Setting: Configure "Sales" metric via REST Push Data API.

3.5. Looker
• Feature: Looker API data pulls.
• Setting: Schedule hourly fetch from inventory database.

3.6. Zoho Analytics
• Feature: Data Import API.
• Setting: Create KPI widgets populating from POS export endpoints.

3.7. Qlik Sense
• Feature: Data Load Editor.
• Setting: Automated reload from "DailySales.csv" SFTP.

3.8. Chartio
• Feature: Scheduled dashboard refresh.
• Setting: Connect to PostgreSQL for real-time metrics.

3.9. Domo
• Feature: Workbench data upload, Connector APIs.
• Setting: Configure auto-pull from ERP API.

3.10. Sisense
• Feature: Elasticube refresh, REST API.
• Setting: API trigger on every POS order.

3.11. Grafana
• Feature: MySQL/REST data sources.
• Setting: JSON integration with eCommerce sales log.

3.12. Geckoboard
• Feature: Push API, Datastore widgets.
• Setting: POST new transaction to Geckoboard endpoint.

3.13. Salesforce Reports
• Feature: Report API.
• Setting: Auto-update dashboards with Closed Won Opportunities for adult DVDs.

3.14. Google Sheets
• Feature: Apps Script, Sheet API.
• Setting: Script to sync inventory status every 10 minutes.

3.15. Metabase
• Feature: SQL/NoSQL connectors, Pulses.
• Setting: Alerts for sales drops under specific SKUs.

3.16. Redash
• Feature: Query scheduler.
• Setting: Auto-refresh sales queries every 30 minutes.

3.17. Databox
• Feature: Custom data push API.
• Setting: Use POST to send daily metrics.

3.18. Mode Analytics
• Feature: Python/R Notebooks.
• Setting: Automation with result exports to dashboards.

3.19. Supermetrics
• Feature: Data aggregation into Google Sheets/BigQuery.
• Setting: Daily pipeline pull from store backend API.

3.20. Amazon QuickSight
• Feature: Direct SQL/SPICE data source auto-refresh.
• Setting: Connection to AWS RDS with 10-minute sync.

Benefits

4.1. Eliminates manual report generation for management.
4.2. Enables proactive decision-making using up-to-date data.
4.3. Highlights real-time sales winners and inventory issues.
4.4. Provides always-current visibility into key performance metrics.
4.5. Reduces errors and latency of spreadsheet-based reporting.