Future of data visualization and dashboard solution

Dashboard has changed drastically since its beginning and lots of vendors are catering toward big data etc. nowadays. Now the focus has shifted from Excel to Big Data. But it is going to coexist for a long time. A good BI Ecosystem should allow for an easy assemblage of such small sized datasets, whether it be excel/csv or any other text file into a central repository. Visualization will continue to improve and no longer be a differentiating factor among vendors. Users will be able to perform advanced visualization by simple drag and drop operations. Dashboards will continue to be used for monitoring real time events as well as publish scorecards and performance metrics. The line between a dashboard page and any other internal web page will fade. Read more at: http://www.datavizualization.com/blog/what-is-the-future-of-data-visualization-and-dashboard-solutions