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How to make dashboard against Teradata Server database

Build beautiful teradata SQL reporting dashboards

This article will address the following topics as well

  • How to create Teradata Server dashboards ?
  • How to build online reporting dashboards for your business?

 Easy Dashboard Reporting with Teradata Server

Teradata delivers better business outcomes through technology-enabled solutions in the areas that matter most � from operational excellence and asset optimization, to customer experience and product innovation, to finance transformation and risk mitigation. It works with leading businesses in over 75 countries worldwide including many of the top performers and best-known brands in telecom, transportation, consumer packaged goods, financial services and manufacturing.


Are you using Teradata Server for your data marts or data-warehouse? If so, build your Free Teradata Server infocaptor dashboard software.

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Benefits of Teradata Server database dashboard

Instant Visibility. A Teradata Server dashboard visually summarizes all the important metrics you have selected to track, to give you a quick-and- easy overview of where everything stands. With real-time teradata SQL reporting reporting, it’s a live view of exactly how your marketing campaign is performing.

  • Better Decision Making
  • Gain Competitive Advantage
  • Enhance Collaboration
  • Spotting potential problems
  • Merge with data from Excel Dashboards
  • Live SQL against database
  • No need for Data-warehouse or ETL
  • Leverage the speed and stability of your powerful database.

Check out the Top 10 Tangible benefits of Excel dashboards

“Five minutes into using InfoCaptor and you will know that you found a mission critical product. InfoCaptor helps you see your data from different angles like a CSI investigator on a crime scene. It helps visualize endless data, perform real time analysis and tell you where to focus your attention, what are the opportunities to invest your capital. The return on your InfoCaptor investment is guaranteed on your first project”

Steps to build Teradata Server database dashboard

 How to create Teradata Server database connection

Teradata Server supports both ODBC and JDBC connections. To work with Databases, you would need the following Connection details like

  • Teradata Server server IP or name
  • Teradata Server database name
  • Teradata Server port number
  • Teradata Server user and password

Check out the InfoCaptor Teradata Server connection details

How to build Teradata Server pivot table for dashboard reporting

InfoCaptor provides powerful visual analytics for Teradata Server and you simply point to the table in your Teradata Server schema or database. Pick your columns and put them in rows or columns.

One of the first things to do for data analysis is to browse your teradata SQL reporting data and chart different varieties of Pivot Tables. Pivot tables is one of the simple and yet powerful visualizations. InfoCaptor’s entire visualization engine is based on pivot tables. Check the detail steps on how to build Pivot Tables views for Teradata Server data

 Create bar charts and line charts for teradata SQL reporting tables and views

Once you have a visual clue about your Teradata Server data using pivot tables, it becomes very easy to convert into bar chart, line chart or any other chart. Check this picture, how Teradata Server data is visually mapped between pivot table and bar chart

Create Advanced d3.js charts for Teradata Server tables and views

While you can create pivot tables and bar charts that are very common display types for majority of dashboard reporting, InfoCaptor liberates you from the basic chart types by providing advanced d3js based hierarchical visualizations. Your Teradata Server reports can easily incorporate circle pack, sunburst, cluster and treemap diagrams. Sankey Flow diagram for your teradata analytics data is also an excellent choice for quick data analysis.

 Add Teradata Server based analysis/report to dashboard view

  • Once you are happy with your analysis in the visualizer you can add it to the dashboard
  • Keep adding as many analysis you need to the teradata SQL reporting dashboards
  • Add dashboard parameters to the Teradata Server reporting page

 Finalize and Publish your teradata SQL reporting dashboard

Once you are done with the dashboard, you can share the dashboard with ohter users.

  • Public sharing: Share dashboard as public URL
  • Inivite users to your group and share it via group
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