Transitioning from Grid Reports to Dashboards & Mobile

Leveraging the FoodOps BI solution accelerator, the Smartbridge team designed, developed, integrated, and launched mobile dashboards for the executive team, finance, and regional operations executives. The project was executed following an agile BI approach to deliver continuous value to the business rapidly. FoodOps is a standardized food industry analytics solution accelerator built based on decades of industry expertise in QSR, fast casual, and full-service segments. It comes with pre-defined data models, KPIs, dashboards, and micro apps to digitally enable typical food field operations. The team reviewed existing reports and conducted interviews with key Finance and Operations resources to identify the key elements they gravitate towards on existing grid reports. They structured a 3-sprint plan for layering incremental functionality over time, conducted iterative mockups (paper > PowerPoint > MicroStrategy), designed the overall look and feel, built all visual and navigation graphical components, migrated FoodOps into the client’s environment, and conducted a schema object mapping exercise to “re-wire” FoodOps components to their data warehouse. They also developed the MicroStrategy dashboards and drove the testing/QA effort.