KPI (Key Performance Indicator) Column

In the midst of intense competition in almost every sector, business environment has certainly become very dynamic and offers a myriad of challenges. Even the smallest mistakes in day to day functioning may lead to huge losses or ultimate closure of the business. Thus, the administration and management of a business organization require to track the performance against the target goals on a regular basis. It goes without saying that even a minute carelessness or overlooking of the performance indicators may lead to drastic consequences and in order to avoid this, you can use KPI (Key Performance Indicator) Column v.1.41.

KPI (Key Performance Indicator) Column is a shareware standalone program for setting the predefined goals and targets of performance in various spheres and provides a speedy mechanism to know about any glitches in achieving these goals with the help of its GUI interface which has been appropriately designed to meet the very purpose of this program. With its enhanced functionality, this indicator can be added as a column to any Sharepoint custom list and can use List item as well as list view for sourcing data. You can easily choose indicator icon according to your choice from a number of icons like traffic lights, marks, shapes, flags and others. For instance, if you select traffic light icon, then this icon turns red if you are lagging behind the targets and turns green, if the performance is satisfactory in the light of the targets. Otherwise, the sign remains yellow showing that the actual performance is at par. Thus, the application acts as a perfect scorecard for an organization.

Overall, KPI (Key Performance Indicator) Column v.1.41 is a nice application which can eliminate any loopholes in performance tracking of an organization by giving a graphical presentation of performance. Hence, it gets four and a half out of five.

KPI (Key Performance Indicator) column provides users with the ability to define and measure progress toward predefined goals and display current status by using easy-to-understand graphical indicators. Using of KPI provides with ability to visualize answers to the following questions:
1. What am I ahead or behind on?
2. How far ahead or behind am I?
3. What is the minimum I have completed?
Components use MOSS 2007 KPI idea, but with reworked functionality. Unlike MOSS 2007 KPI, ArfulBits KPI could be added to any custom list as a column, can use both List View and List Item as data source and supports different indicator icons: flags, traffic lights, shapes, marks and other.
You can use traffic light icons to indicate that predefined satisfaction is exceeding, meeting, or failing to meet goals. If predefined satisfaction exceeds a preset goal, the KPI is displayed with a green traffic light icon. If customer satisfaction is failing to meet minimum goals, the customer's satisfaction KPI is displayed with a red traffic light icon. Otherwise, it is displayed with a yellow traffic light icon.
Features:
- Displaying indicator for each individual item in list using standard SharePoint calculated formulas
- Calculating value by using data of associated SharePoint list (a count of items in the list; a computing of Total, Average, Maximum, or Minimum of a numerical column in the list)
- Column customization (multiple icons set; text customization; different column display modes)
- Predefined set of site columns (KPI Issue Status, KPI Priority, KPI Task Status, KPI % Complete)
- AJAX support enabled
Why ArtfulBits KPI Column?
ArtfulBits KPI (Key Performance Indicator) column is simple graphical scorecards that can be used to evaluate business data against business goals. With this column you reduce the risk to overlook the information about the status of the value, the column take the trouble.