1. Portal functionality
    1. Conduit to additional data
    2. No portal functionality
  2. Role
    1. Strategic
    2. Analyical
    3. Operational
  3. Type of Data
    1. Quantitative
    2. Non-quantitative
  4. Data domain
    1. Sales
    2. Finance
    3. Marketing
    4. Manuacturing
    5. Human Resources
  5. Types of measures
    1. Balanced Scorecard
    2. Six Sigma
    3. Non-performance
  6. Span of Data
    1. Enterprise-wide
    2. Departmental
    3. Individual
  7. Update frequency
    1. Monthly
    2. Weekly
    3. Real time or near real time
  8. Interactivity
    1. Static Display
    2. Interactive Display
      1. Drill-down
      2. Filters
      3. etc.
  9. Mechanism of display
    1. Primarily graphical
    2. Primarily text
    3. Integration of graphics and text
  10. Source:
    1. Information Dashboard Design
    2. The Effective Visual Communication of Data
    3. Stephen Few
    4. http://amzn.to/InfoDashDesign