“Data really powers everything that we do.” — Jeff Weiner
Introduction
Zoho Creator Applications can be made powerful data monitoring tools which allow businesses to monitor their real time data and give business insights. It provides users with the ability to track and analyse their data, allowing them to make informed decisions quickly and accurately. With Zoho Creator Applications, small and medium businesses can stay on top of their data by monitoring changes in customer behaviour, sales trends, leads pipelines, sources and more. Additionally, they can set up automated alerts to be notified when certain conditions are met or exceeded. This makes it easy for businesses to stay informed and make decisions based on the most up-to-date information.
Use Case
Let us say you own a distribution company of certain manufactured products. You supply these goods/products to different show rooms in multiple cities and also deliver them directly to selective customers. By collecting the data of which distributors are selling more products, which products are overall popular demand, who are the repeated customers, delivery status of the orders, distributors PO request status, pending payments, different warehouses stock status, etc., you can make informed decisions easily.
Using Zoho Creator you can develop applications which can help in managing the back end data and also business insights dashboards to monitor without going to every report for validation. Although, there are multiple products like Zoho Analytics provide comprehensive dashboard, the use case here is selective to Small and Medium enterprises who would want to have a concise dashboard with lightweight requirements to capture data.
Below sample screenshot will give an idea to senior management to measure the day to day progress of the orders, sales to shop/customers, stock details, etc., without waiting for any manual help or assistance to them.
Why Zoho Creator ?
Zoho Creator is a low-code platform that allows users to create custom web and mobile applications with limited/no coding. One of the features of Zoho Creator is the ability to create dashboards that display data from your application in a visual format.It's worth noting that Zoho Creator also has pre-built dashboards templates that you can customize to suit your needs and you can also integrate with other Zoho services to make the Dashboard more powerful and interactive.
Notification support and integration with Zoho Creator will also help in making pre-emptive decisions to run the business in a smooth manner.
Conclusion
Data monitoring is a crucial aspect of any business or organization. It allows businesses to track performance, identify trends, and make data-driven decisions. By leveraging the right tools and techniques, businesses can gain a competitive edge and improve their bottom line.Besides the technical aspect, it's also important to have a clear data governance policy and to establish a data-driven culture within the organization. This ensures that data is being collected, stored, and analysed in a consistent and ethical manner.