Using Data Explorer to Craft Interactive Insights
Through these features, Technology Spend enables you to gain insight into the most current and complete view of your IT estate. Through discovery and normalization, you gain consistent, reliable data and control of assets to draw valuable insights across software and hardware.
The following sections of the help provide details about leveraging Data Explorer to gain insights into your IT environment.
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Data Explorer empowers you to discover, create, and publish your own ad-hoc insights to customize the experience inside your applications. This topic provides complete information about learning how to make Data Explorer work for you and includes the following subtopics:
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Follow the step below to navigate directly to Data Explorer from any Technology Spend dashboard.
To use Data Explorer
| • | Click the Data Explorer button as described in Using Data Explorer to Create and Customize Insights. |
Another way to access Data Explorer from within a dashboard is to click Explore from here. When you hover the mouse over various sections within a dashboard where Data Explorer is available, an ellipses icon appears. If you click on the ellipses, you can click Explore from here in order to leverage the tools in Data Explorer. For more information, refer to Using Data Explorer to Create and Customize Insights.
Using Data Explorer to Create and Customize Insights
Data Explorer is a powerful environment for data discovery and customization within its responsive user interface. Navigate to Dashboards > Technology Spend and click the Data Explorer button to view Data Explorer.
Alternatively, you can click any dashboard from the Change Dashboard screen and when you hover the mouse over various sections within a dashboard and an ellipses icon appears. Click the ellipses icon and then click Explore from here in order to leverage the tools in Data Explorer within the out-of-the box dashboard and save new dashboards on the fly.
In Data Explorer, you can drag measures and attributes to interactive zones to:
| • | Visualize self-service data analytics |
| • | Customize data visualizations |
| • | Create insights (charts, graphs, and tables) |
| • | Slice data |
| • | Filter data |
| • | Change the way data is visualized |
| • | Create guided navigation |
With Data Explorer, insights change dynamically with each click, enabling you to really dig into your data on the way to new and import discoveries. Data Explorer also recommends best practices and next steps.
Learning Data Explorer
To learn how to work with the Data Explorer, review the following main sections, each with extensive subsections for further information:
| • | The Components of Data Explorer—Provides a high-level look at the Data Explorer components. |
| • | Creating Insights to Visualize Your Data—Take your data and visualize them in various types of visualizations. |
| • | Working With Measures—Measures are available to help with insights. Available measures include local measures created with time over time comparisons and calculated measures created using basic arithmetic functions. |
| • | Exporting Insights—You can use your insights as they are or export them and analyze them further. |