Publishing the analytical reports in the dashboards will not satisfy the business requirements always. Business users will be interested in some reports so that they can compare their values. You also need to display the reports that will enable users to focus on only the most critical business entities. Sometimes this can be achieved by using the conditional formatting feature. But the defined threshold values are going to be static values. As time passes, you'll need to reset these values, so it has a maintenance cost. To solve these business challenges, you can use Key Performance Indicators (KPI). They can be used to measure the productivity of an organization relative to its objectives.
KPIs are widely used in OBIEE 11g and you can easily publish these KPIs in the dashboards by creating KPI watchlists.
Key Performance Indicators are also building blocks of strategy management. In order to implement balanced scorecard management technique in an organization, you'll first need...